What is good nutrition?
Wow, what a minefield…It shouldn’t be, but it is.
Why?
Well, money…buy this plan, do this ‘diet’, stick a fancy label on it, with an emotional eye-catchy hook with its different version of a calorie deficit, and boom! A new ‘diet’ is born’ and the carrousel of disappointment through yo-yo’ing is perpetuated.
Boom, the world of ‘quick fixes’…
It sucks.
Equally, the added narrative of the human trait of the ‘I want it now’ mentality massively compliments this, I mean, if you haven’t reeeeeeeeeeally checked out what good nutrition is, how else are you to know?
These campaigns and celebrity figures promoting the latest fad can be very convincing.
So, lets cut to the chase.
This is good nutrition:
- Consuming enough energy for your body (biological requirements, activity and exercise), ‘eating less’ is a broad approach, less isn’t always better and neither is more and to the opposite effect. As always, in context…We are all different and that difference will mean our energy requirements will differ big style.
- Good nutrition gives us nutrients. Well duhhh. Each choice has a specific nutrient density that impacts the way we work (yes everything), since we want to eat the right amount of nutrients for our needs, it’s crucial to make sure that our foods are loaded with nutrients and not just hyper-palatable sugary trans-fatty bombs! If not, we crash, the body doesn’t perform well and weird things happen like fatigue, digestive difficulties skin problems, illness etc…
- Good nutrients enable us to be as healthy as possible, perform at our best, and to live long, active vibrant lives.
- Good nutrition is outcome-based, all choices lead to an outcome, these little bad boys can be measured and they are a great mirror for reality.
- Good nutrition doesn’t leave you feeling restricted and/or ‘on or off the wagon’… It’s a process of learning with pre-requisitional skill-building.
- It is from choices of foods that you enjoy, ones that don’t evoke digestive reactions and/or allergies.
- It’s about being responsible for the planet (food waste, sources of food).
- It’s about finding what works for you on the basis of the nutritional principles, this does mean that two different dietary intakes can still be both healthy and different….NO, NOT DIETS! (they are not in line with nutritional principles, they are in line with the principles of pulling your pants down and spanking your vulnerable bare arse). None of that works (weight yoying doesn’t mean that it will work).
- Oh yes, on that subject, LEARNING THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLES of NUTRITION and molding that knowledge to your individuality.
As a result of that understanding and application, you’ll lose weight, burn fat, access energy, confidence, wear what you want with comfort, and most awesomely, you’ll ultimately perform better in life.
The focus is the most important thing.
Focus on sustainability for your health and the aesthetics will come as a bi-product.
Force a ‘diet’ and you’ll be wasting your time.