The following is the introduction to a new report and full 12-week transformation plan I am writing, and will be releasing for free to you soon. It is my goal to help you understand how important eating for fat loss is, which is why I am consistently writing about nutrition on what should be a fitness blog. Please enjoy, and keep an eye peeled for the report to be released!
My daughter, Morgan, enjoying her eggs
The Utter Truth About Eating for Weight Loss
The utter truth is that any diet plan, no matter what, is difficult to follow. Why? Because it’s not the same way as you usually eat.
Think about it this way: if you take stock of what you’ve eaten over the past month, six months, and year, you will find a pattern to your eating habits. Look at it without judgment and without guilt, it’s okay. I’m not going to judge you for your eating patterns.
Most often, our eating patterns were taught to us.
However, if you do not have the body you desire, your eating patterns are not currently serving your body, no matter how “good” or “bad” you think you eat. So, let’s just get “good” and “bad” out of the way. There’s “serving you” and “not serving you.”
If you would like a real-world example of this, think of it this way. If you went to a restaurant, and not a single server approached the table, would you frequent that restaurant again?
Yet we do it to ourselves daily with our food. Some food has “great service.” Others have “okay service.” And much of our food today has “rotten service.” Yet, because of taste, price, or an “I need it” mindset, we feel like that food is the best out there.
Think about the restaurant again. Would you go to a restaurant ONLY for the “atmosphere?”
ONLY for the price?
ONLY for the sake of giving in to a craving?
Even if you weren’t getting ANY service?
So, if following a diet plan isn’t easy, what is a person to do? Throw in the towel, dive in to a box of Twinkies, and give up having the body you want?
If that’s how you’re thinking, then yes. I say that because you just completely missed my point.
My point is that some food is going to serve us, and some of it isn’t.
We need to learn how to use the food that is going to give us the best service, and see if we can’t get some great “coupon deals” in the process.
AUG
