If you’re trying to improve your health, lose weight or just learn what a balanced meal looks like, you’ve come to the right place.

Do you have a hand on the end of your arm? You’re in luck! Even if you don’t you’ve probably seen one and that’s good enough!

Here’s how to use your hand to build a meal that has a balanced portion of protein, carbohydrates (both starchy carbs and non-starchy carbs and fat) without weighing and measuring the ingredients.

Food packaging is ridiculous. Companies know that we have short attention spans and that we’re on a mission to look for healthy options.

Often they use these facts to confuse and mislead us by plastering the front of the package with buzzwords and bolt font highlighting things that we believe to be “healthy” all while hiding the ugly truth.