Nutrition Tip
– Food faddism
In 2003 it
was the Atkins Diet, in 2010 it was the Cambridge diet and in 2013 it’s the 5:2
diet! Do they work or is it food faddism?
Food faddism
and fad diets refer to an idiosyncratic diets and eating patterns that promote
short-term weight maintenance with little concern for long-term weight loss
management.
I do not
believe that dieting is a long-term solution to weight management. Diets may
well get you some short term results however, I believe that the majority of
diets out there are non sustainable and will turn you into a yoyo dieter as you
desperately try and struggle to maintain different dieting fads whilst getting
poor results.
Your shape is
dictated by your lifestyle and genetics. Your lifestyle will give you the body
you want. Weight management is about changing your lifestyle to reduce your
calorie intake to below or equal to your calorie output. Go back to basics. Set
yourself a few simple rules like below, and watch the weight drop off and stay
off!!!
Weight
management rules.
1.
Make
it a lifestyle,
2.
Limit
your simple carbohydrate intake
3.
Have
breakfast as your biggest meal, followed by lunch and tea as your smallest,
4.
Don’t
drink,
5.
Eat
plenty of fruit and vegatables,
6.
Don’t
have microwave or fast food,
7.
Reward
yourself once per week with a cheat meal,
8.
Exercise
3 times per week.
Give it ago.
Forget the short-term results that fads diets give you and go back to basis for
long term sustainable results and a new body!
Dominic Burns
Director
dominic@feelgoodpt.co.uk
07757 345 764
