Why is weight Management so Challenging 2021?
Are you completely frustrated by attempts to lose weight or find your weight slowly creeping up? You are not alone! In fact, it has become the new normal with 70% of Americans being classified as overweight and 40% or more as obese. What is going on?
YOU have been given the wrong information.
• 75% of the authorities who determine the dietary guidelines are from the pharmaceutical industry or food industry, who do not have and financial incentive for individuals to consume whole foods.
• The dietary guidelines, are not guided by all the available scientific facts when they determined a healthy eating plan for most.
• The guidelines are also based on healthy population and according to recent numbers 88% of Americans have metabolic dysfunction.
YOU are being purposely confused and overwhelmed.
• Our food supply has dramatically changed in the past century making it increasingly difficult to decipher labels and determine what to eat.
• Deceptive food labeling such as natural, trans-fat free or free range is accepted as it is deemed the responsibility of the consumer to make the best personal decisions.
Personally, I have always tried to follow healthy eating recommendations. While attending NYU for my Master’s in Clinical Nutrition as well as working at Equinox as personal trainer in the 1990’s, I did my best to adhere to the high carb, low fat style. Sadly, I skipped cheese on my pizza, ate bagels with jelly and of course nothing but skim milk and equal in my ice coffee. Guess what, I was hungry and regularly found myself overeating or bingeing on cereal, popcorn or cookies? I worked out to excess, as the recommendations at that time was to stay slow and steady in order to remain in the fat burning zone. I’m embarrassed to admit the hours logged at the gym. In spite of all this, I continued to be bothered what I felt was an extra 8 to 10lbs I couldn’t get rid of. However, most troubling was that feeling of being out of control with food and my body. Does this sound familiar to anyone?
Luckily, we have come a long way in our understanding of what constitutes a healthy diet. In fact, many recommendations currently are in direct opposition of what we once believed to be true.
Here is my top 3 steps that you can take today, to take the challenge out of weight management:
1) Set up your environment for success. This is not about willpower. If you don’t have temptations in view or available, it will make it easier to resist.
2) Keep it simple! The less effort you have to make when deciding what to eat the more likely you will be able stick with better choices. Ie: rotate 3 basic meals to start.
3) Finally, and most importantly, any changes that you make need to be sustainable over the long run, which means strive for progress not perfection. You most likely didn’t get here overnight and creating new habits that last may also take time to establish.
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