It hit me the other day how many shows there are on the telly that are about overweight people. There’s a channel on Foxtel that is practically dedicated to it, however 50% of these shows are celebrating obesity and the other 50% is about how life threatening it can be. The one thing that both these types of shows have in common is that they use the word ‘diet’ when it comes to losing the weight.
In these shows, they’re both put on ‘diets’ when they really need a complete lifestyle overhaul. Dieting is a word that describes a temporary eating pattern and that is why I can’t stand when people say they’re going on a ‘diet’. The same goes for “diet pill”. They are not diet pills, they are supplements. If you start thinking as them as supplements maybe a good eating lifestyle and more involvement into your journey will take place. You cannot expect to take a pill and do absolutely nothing to assist in your journey. You need to drink more water and you need to put less crap into your body. By crap I mean “bad carbs”, processed foods, sugar, junk food, etc. Yes we are all human and our bodies cry out for those once in a while but if you’re not learning anything on your journey, what’s the point?
How about you try…
A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE CHANGE.
Being healthy shouldn’t be something that you temporarily do because you need to lose weight. If you diet, you lose the weight and then you’re happy, how do you suppose you’re meant to maintain that weight? OH, LIGHTBULB MOMENT!
Eating well and exercising should be part of a healthy lifestyle. These obese people on TV try all the fad diets and most of the time they fail. If they lose weight, they most often put the weight back on because it was something they did for a short amount of time.
Let me use myself as an example:
I have suffered from eating disorders. I lost the weight very quickly, and to maintain my ridiculously (and DANGEROUSLY) skinny frame, I would have to have kept starving myself. I was like this until I fell pregnant with my son and when I started to eat normally again to be able to have a healthy pregnancy, I put on weight faster than normal simply because my body was in
limbo.
On the other end of the scale I have also prepped for a muscle gain and strength training. I went by the IIFYM (if it fits your macros) method. This meant that I could eat foods that fit within my given macros (protein, carbs and fats) and majority of these were from clean sources. By following this method I was able to live a healthy lifestyle rather follow a ‘diet’ because I hadn’t gone by a ridiculous diet that is very difficult to maintain in real life, I didn’t stack on weight. I give full credit to my CPT credits for helping me to achieve this method and lifestyle. I always tell girls who ask me about maintaining weight that it is a lifestyle, not a phase.
I am hoping that you’re all catching what I’m throwing right now because since grasping a grip on reality and realizing that fad diets and “diet pills” weren’t the answer and changing my thoughts on how I feel about my body I feel more confident than I ever have before and I’m maintaining my weight just fine with the use of “supplements” and good eating habits.
Do I need to work out? No. I am a busy girl. Between running 2 businesses, being a mom, working as a nurse, and now with sports and after school activities I sometimes do not have the time for a workout. I get my exercise don’t get me wrong. I wish that trying to dress your kid was considered exercise because I’d be burning 10000 calories a day!
Diet is temporary.
Healthy lifestyle is forever.
Think about it.
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Toni Sweeney is a Triple Certified Ketogenic Diet and Primal Health Coach and weight loss expert who personally lost 80 pounds while making a total lifestyle change. The founder of TS Transformations, her formulas and plans has helped thousands of women lose weight and keep it off forever.