Re: Getting fit for 2019 - Are you going to?
Originally Posted by
Realist
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Yep should be interesting but I've noticed before that mainstream TV usually doesn't tell the truth in regards to most things in this area. They rarely take on the sugar manufacturers for example.
Overall I find it depressing how many people start each New Year with these various resolutions to go on some form of diet. It's just a waste of effort.
Diets do not work. Period imho.
Any "diet" is by definition just a temporary eating change and as such will soon enough come to an end at which point normal service is resumed.
The focus is also completely wrong. Most dieters are looking to LOSE WEIGHT. What they should be doing is looking to be healthy. Weight loss is just a natural byproduct of being healthy.
The road to health (and thus subsequent body rebalancing of weight) lies in finally understanding and accepting that the body needs the right fuel to exist. Give it the right fuel and health follows.
It's a mind set we have to get into imho. Once you have that epiphany then it no longer matters what you "think" you like to eat and don't like to eat. It only matters to give the body the proper fuel it needs. It is just a machine like any other.
Many older people still bear their childhood food foibles which is pretty ridiculous. "Oh I can't eat green beans, I never touch 'em" and the like.
We have to put aside these mental discriminations and just give the body what it needs.
Diets will never ever work.
What is needed is this simple understanding of the body and the acceptance and determination to give it what it needs and to stop poisoning it with junk and harmful things.
That simple act rebalances everything, stops the body having to constantly expend valuable energy detoxing itself and instead lets it devote energy to regeneration and healing and streamlining. Health ensues and as part of that body weight is rebalanced.
The best resolution many people could make this New Year is to never go on a diet again.
Imho
Originally Posted by
Realist
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lol soft lad. I'll post what I want thanks so don't fret your little head.
Diets are a poor choice and always will be. For the vast majority of people they simply don't work. They create a temporary change which then reverts back to norm. Most people put back on any weight lost and then usually more besides.
The statistics of Weight Watchers and Slimming World bear out these words. If their diets worked, people wouldn't need to keep coming back to slimming clubs time and time again.
Just eat the right foods and the body will adjust. Really simple. Well . . . for most people anyway!
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/diet
There’s actually FOUR definitions of what diet is and Realist always uses the LAST one to define diet and ONLY uses that one. It’s the last definition , which is to reduce calories but the other three definitions do not include restricting calories at all.
First definition ..... food or drink regularly consumed . It gives an example of a diet of fruits and vegetables is considered a vegetarian diet.
Second definition ..... habitual nourishment .... links between diet and disease . ( meaning certain diets ( ways of eating ) can prevent disease ) which is what a nutritionist or dietician does. Note: that’s MY trade
Third definition .... the kind and amount of food prescribed for a person or animal for a special reason . An example is given ......a low sodium diet
Another example is a diabetic diet for those with diabetes
Another example is that I’m on a gluten free diet because I am celiac
NOTE: As a nutritionist, this is actually what we do for people; create a diet to match the person which rarely, if ever, is about reducing calories.
And finally the fourth definition which is the one Realist ALWAYS uses is :
A regimen of eating and drinking sparingly to reduce one’s weight and the example used is “ going ON a diet,” which often doesn’t work for various reasons.
Realist and I have argued THIS very point many times because he ALWAYS uses the LAST definition which is to ‘restrict calories’ to lose weight which isn’t actually the true meaning of diet yet he will argue the point until the cows come home.
IF this WAS the true definition of diet then dieticians and nutritionists wouldn’t be needed. We’d all be out of employment and obviously this isn’t true since they are used in clinics and hospitals. I worked for “ Sick Kids Hospital’ in Toronto and it definitely wasn’t to try and get kids to restrict their calories to lose weight.
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My answer to Floydy’s question..YES