Nothing Tastes As Good As Being In Shape Feels
And I love a hamburger with egg, cheese and onion. A massive hamburger, dripping with egg and sauce (ketchup for my American friends), covered in a pound of cheese and two inches of fried onions. If I was hungry and someone got between me and that hamburger, there's a fair chance I'd hurt them. Badly. I have food issues. I'm a work in progress. People think that because I do what I do for a living (trainer, exercise scientist, educator, etc.) that I have an aversion to anything with sugar, fat, salt or flavour. Are you kidding? Let's get one thing clear: If I could eat five pieces of thick white toast with crunchy peanut butter for breakfast every day, and stay lean and healthy, I'd do it. No brainer. Cheesecake every night and stay in shape? Okay, I'm in. Yes I love food (healthy food too), and yes I enjoy the odd, infrequent, splurge (oh, the frailty of the human condition)... but what I love more is: .....being in shape. I've been fat... and I've been lean. It ain't a big decision. And for some people (like me) we need to make a decision. And we don't need to get all precious and melodramatic about it... We just need to make the decision. Soon. Now even. Do I want to eat junk (regularly), or do I want to be in shape. I can't do both. So I Choose to be in shape. I'm always talking to people who tell me how deprived they feel when they don't eat their favourite junk foods.
Q. You know why they feel deprived? A. 'Cause they focus on what they're missing (junk food), not what they're gaining (a leaner, lighter, healthier body).
It's an attitude and perspective thing, not a food thing. So next time you're feeling a little 'deprived', don't focus on the cake (biscuit, ice-cream, chocolate) that gives you five minutes of pleasure... focus on the body that you live in twenty four hours a day. By the way, I'm yet to talk to someone who feels good (emotionally, psychologically or physically) after they have made a bad food decision or over-eaten.
Some practical suggestions:
Option 1. No junk, get your head where it needs to be, don't be a sook, enjoy your new body. Have the rare splurge (once a month).
Option 2. Eat your five small meals per day (35 small meals per week) and allow yourself one meal per week where you eat a favourite junk food (not a wheelbarrow full).
Option 3. Eat a very small amount of your favourite food daily. The problem is not that we eat a chocolate; it's that we eat forty chocolates. I worked with a choc-o-holic who ate chocolate every day and lost twenty three kilos (50lbs)... because she reduced her intake from plenty ... to two chocolates a day (every day).
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Craig Harper is a qualified exercise scientist, author, columnist, radio presenter, tv personality and owner of one of the largest appointment only personal training centres in the world.
He can be heard weekly on SEN 1116 and GOLD FM radio stations and appears on Monday's on Network Ten's 9AM.
He is also a columnist for Women's Health & Fitness, and Alpha Magazines.
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