Day 43 Extremes of eating or a lifetime of balance?

When you start a “diet” or a new plan, or whatever you want to call it, there seems to be a great difference to what you eat on a “diet” and what you used to eat before (I assume “before” was when you were not happy with yourself and you carried excess weight and your self-esteem was near to rock-bottom).

Okay, so here we are in day 43, and most of you are probably are concentrating on eating not so much and looking to be in your best shape. Cast your mind to “before” again, and do you really understand and know how many calories you were eating?

Many, many people come to me and never like to mention the “before”. Was it 2000 calories, was it 3000 calories, was it 4000 calories even per day?!! Was that amount of calories mainly made up of “empty calories” too?

Empty calories are usually junk such as alcohol, pastries, crisps, simple sugars such as chocolate and sweets, highly processed food such as ready meals, pizza, takeaways, chips, everything in batter, chicken kiev and such food etc etc., and offer no nutritional value, that means no benefit to the human body, and I mean zero!

Is that your story? And do you deny eating so many calories, because it may surprise you the calorific value in foods that only causes distress to your insides, and then your emotions?

So what about now, have you crossed under that magic 1200 calorie per day minimum all doctors and nutritionists talk about? Have you made that mistake and are you in state of malnutrition? If you have, it’s a dangerous place to be and you need to come from there. The doctor will tell you the same thing by the way.

So answer me this? Why is it a case of either eating not so much and getting all the weight off, or eating way too much to create longer term misery for yourself and health problems potentially, why is it a choice of extreme’s all the time?

Isn’t a happy medium a better place to be? Doesn’t it make sense to fill your house with more natural foods, eat a variety of fruit and vegetables? Eat your fish and white meats, eat good carbs such as wholewheat pasta and rice? Does that make sense if you really want the best for yourself, short and long term, and indeed for those closest to you?

I have seen such habits taken up and stuck to, and guess what the main outcome from those adopting those habits are?

Your clothes don’t fit any more! Another one, your skin looks better, your breathing is better resting and during exercise, you sleep better, you feel better, you feel you are in control, you lose body fat, you develop an actual waist! And about another thousand benefits and personal stories of success on how people have changed their lives for the better-these are facts and some of you have already been there or are there of course!

So can we finish off those destructive habits once and for all, THEY DON’T WORK NOW AND NEVER WILL LONG TERM!

Even if your eating goes astray from time to time, surely if your shopping basket contains 80% good natural food, does it have to end up in a long term binge to destruction and wonder how you got into that situation in the first place again.

Extremes should be OVER now, that is worth repeating because over time, your body reacts very badly to that. Your body likes being treated well, just like you do and is the most important thing (your health) you can do for yourself to give yourself a great quality of life, and feel your best every day of your life.

I try only to repeat the facts, as they usually stand up to scrutiny time after time, and I would be out of business if these facts didn’t work. Plus the doctor will ultimately tell you the same thing, I love common sense and getting straight to the point, because it works and I want the best for every body!