The solution to weight loss isn’t starving yourself and being miserable, it’s learning how to fuel your body and mind
No one likes to diet, right? Then why are diets so popular? The reason that we diet is to become a healthier version of ourselves. We have this picture of what life will look like when we reach our ideal weight or when we learn how to cook healthy meals. That dream life looks happier than our current life. It’s what pushes us to keep going when things get hard. The thing is, there is a difference between working hard for something and being miserable. We’ve trained ourselves to believe that in order to be healthy we have to be miserable first, but Mama, that’s a lie.
If “healthy eating” is leaving you starved or miserable, then it’s not healthy! Part of being healthy is being happy. If you don’t feel good throughout your journey then you’re not going to keep it up long term!
That dream life you are picturing probably doesn’t include eating 1200 calories and being hangry for the rest of your life. It does probably include eating a cupcake at your daughter’s birthday or enjoying a bowl of ice cream with your son.
If you’re looking for that dream life, then you need to learn how to fuel your body, not just punish it.
Diets don’t create weight loss they create restriction
Diet is one of the ultimate four-letter words. No one likes it. And it’s for a good reason! We’ve all done some diet that left us feeling bad, and that’s because diets don’t allow for much wiggle room.
Diets typically come with a list of dos and don’ts.
Do eat vegetables. Don’t eat fruit.
Do eat chicken or fish. Don’t eat red meat
Do cardio workouts. Don’t lift weights.
Do eat fruit for dessert. Don’t eat cookies, cake, brownies or ice cream.
And the worst part about diets is that they all contradict one another! Some say carbs are good, some say they’re bad. Some say fats are good, some say they’re bad. Some say low protein is the best and some say high protein will get you results. It’s maddening!! Something has to be right, right?
Ultimately, all we end up with is an unsustainable way of living, a lot of mind games, and an unhealthy relationship with our food!
Diets simply don’t lead us to a healthier way of life! And if our end goal is health and happiness, then we have to give up diets and diet culture! Because the truth is that everything is ok in moderation!
Protein, fat and carbs are all essential for life, so we shouldn’t restrict any of them from our diet! Instead, we need to learn what balance looks like on a personal level.
Discover what a balanced, healthy life looks like for YOU
Each woman is going to have her own nutritional and exercise needs. You aren’t going to need the same amount of food as your sister, mom, husband, friend, etc. Health is a very individual concept.
There are certain principles we can follow to keep us on the right path, but in the end, each of our bodies is different and we have to have the flexibility to do what’s best for our bodies.
When I was on my nutritional journey, I tried every diet I came in contact with because I didn’t know what I should be looking for. After many failed diets, I found macro tracking. Macro tracking held the missing piece I was looking for it.
Macro tracking taught me:
Why protein, fat and carbs are needed to sustain life.
What a balanced diet looks and feels like.
What foods worked for me and what foods didn’t.
How much of each macronutrient I needed to keep up with my life.
How to leverage food to fuel workouts and tone my body.
How to go on vacation without gaining weight.
How to prepare healthy meals that my kids will eat.
Once I understood all of these things, I finally understood what a healthy life looked like! It wasn’t gagging down green smoothies or eating my weight in protein and fat each day. Balance was eating food that made me happy and that made my body feel good!
Another thing I learned is that making a big change in your life shouldn’t be done in one big leap! Making small decisions to choose better foods helped me make this a permanent change in my life.
That’s exactly how I help the mamas in Macro Made Easy change their lives too. We start by taking a look at what your current eating habits look like and then we take manageable steps towards a more balanced diet. But the beauty is that you get to choose what you eat - or don’t eat!
Freedom is the key to a healthy life
Remember the dream life we talked about at the beginning of this? In your dream life, you weren’t tied down to only eating salads. You didn’t spend 90% of your day in the gym. You were present with your family. You had the energy to keep up with your kids and to accomplish the tasks on your to-do list. In all of these dream scenarios, you had freedom.
When you step away from restriction dieting and learn how to eat a balanced diet you get the freedom you are seeking.
Macro tracking is the stepping stone to that freedom, because like we talked about before, it shows you what balance looks like. Once you understand that there is a cost to your food, you can make informed decisions.
If you want to eat a piece of cheesecake, that’s perfectly acceptable! You are aware of the cost and as long as you’re ok with the cost and its possible consequences, then you have made a healthy decision! And that healthy decision is what makes you a healthy person!
Being healthy and feeling liberated from your past beliefs about food will set you up for success in the long run.
Freedom means no longer pushing yourself physically or mentally for eating food you love. Freedom means eating an adult-sized portion because you are an adult! Freedom means learning when to indulge and when to just take a bite because you have control over your food - not the other way around.
Freedom and that dream life are within your reach. You just have to be brave enough to give up the negative relationship you have with food and learn how to use food to power your life. I can help you do that in my Macros Made Easy Program. Set up a free discovery call today if you’re ready to live a life free from dieting.
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