01/22/2013
Excerpt from Nerd Fitness with a great point of view on eating healthy.
“Diets suck”
"Whenever anyone tells me they’re going on a diet, I cringe.
A “diet” typically means a temporary change in eating or drinking habits to achieve desired results. Most of the time spent “dieting” is miserable because you’re depriving yourself of all of the foods you enjoy….and you can’t wait until you can eat “normal” again.
Even if you do hit your goal, after the next six months of eating “normal” you find that you have gained all that weight back.
Diets are like the invincibility star of the weight loss world: you’re allowed, for a very short amount of time, to plow through all of your enemies…making a lot of progress very quickly. But when you get to the end of the level and it’s time to face stronger enemies like Bowser, you’re just as weak as when you started.
Instead aiming for an invincibility star, I want you to walk through the level slowly, collecting every coin and every power up we can find.
From now on, look at any changes to your diet (and refer to them as well) as a transitions to a new lifestyle. We’re not making temporary changes or getting started on the next diet…we’re building lifelong habits and lifelong health. We take rule two seriously.
Does that mean you can never have your double dipped frozen banana with everything on it ever again? No, but maybe not as often."