Hope you are having a great week so far. One of the benefits of living the Assert fitness lifestyle is that you wake up on a Monday morning full of energy as opposed to peeling your head off the pillow because you’ve been on a 48 hour booze and junk food binge.
Eating healthy during the week allows me to have a cheat meal at the weekend if I want one or the odd glass of alcohol and still feel great.
Unfortunately, most people use the phrase “everything in moderation” without really knowing what moderation is. It is really an excuse to justify why they eat something they shouldn’t be, which in fact does more harm than good. In effect by saying this phrase allows your subconscious mind to have what it wants. Because you programmed it, it will keep telling you this phrase to justify the junk food you are eating!
Lets look an example….
Is one chocolate bar per day moderate?
Is one or two glasses of wine per day moderate?
The trouble with the “everything in moderation” approach is that people only tend to think of junk food such as chocolate, pizza, burgers and alcohol as the things they have to moderate without taking into account the other foods that they are eating.
In reality you shouldn’t be including any wheat based foods into that list because wheat acts like sugar in the body. When ever you eat sugar your body releases insulin to store that sugar and unless you are exercising using exercises like we do at our fitness camps, chances are you are going to store that sugar as fat. Everything in moderation suddenly sounds less like a good idea!
Then there is the accumulative burden of eating foods that stress the body. Eat enough of these foods for long enough and you can set of a hormone cascade that see’s your bodies thyroid hormone becoming compromised allowing your metabolic rate slowing down, meaning you have to eat less and less to maintain your current weight. This is the same thing that happens when you constantly go on a diet. In effect you are starving yourself thin and this takes its toll on your body and puts a massive stress on your it, as well as your mind.
With this in mind, do you….
Do you want to break away from the pepetual yo-yo dieting?
Do you want to finally take control of your eating?
Do you want to have a body that looks, feels and performs better than it has in years?
All without counting calories, doing coloured days or drinking skinny shakes?
If you do than you have to ditch the phrase that so many people use. If nothing changes then nothing changes. Something must change to get a different result right?
You have GOT to change the way you think about food, eat healthily 90% of the time, give your body a chance to heal and recover. You have got to remove the toxic load that your body has to endure. Remove the toxins and reap the rewards. A great start is to remove wheat and dairy products, long been linked with health issues.
Remember, “everything in moderation” comes at a price!
To your Health!
Dean
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