In January, it is easy to tighten rules, skip meals, and overcorrect after normal life meals. This article brings things back to centre with a simpler approach: steady meal rhythm, protein and veg as anchors, and fewer emotional reactions to food. Sustainable eating is often unremarkable, and that is the point.
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What Does "Healthy Eating" Look Like FOR YOU?
On a coaching call this past week, one of our members expressed her frustration with one of the lessons that asked her to “Imagine a really awesome, healthy, delicious meal.”
The problem was that what her brain told her a “really awesome, healthy meal” should be didn’t at all look like something delicious to her.
Achieving the health and physique outcomes you want and maintaining them is all about finding the balance that works for you between what you’re doing now and that unattainable “perfect” ideal diet.
Here’s how it works…
The Perfect Diet Part 1 - "The Keto Question"
As a trainer and nutrition coach, people frequently ask me about the latest fad diets. These days, people are asking about ketogenic diets. A few years back, it was always about gluten-free or Paleo. Back when I started in the industry, the Zone diet and Atkins were the big ones. Pretty consistently throughout, people always ask about “cleanses” (which are total B.S., but I’ll get into those in another post).
Everyone wants to know what the “Perfect Diet” is for them. Will the latest fad work for them? After all, their friend Sally lost 20 pounds doing X, so it must be good, right?
My answer is almost always, “It depends.”
The most common thing I’m asked about these days is Keto, and whether folks should be avoiding carbs, so here is my answer to “The Keto Question”…