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What is a diet anyway?

As a certified personal trainer, I have heard out of the world ideas about how to lose weight that clients or patrons have mentioned to me. As a society, we have gone off the rails with the idea of diet and restrictions.

"A diet simply defined is the intake of food you have"

A diet simply defined is the intake of food you have, a diet is what you eat. as a society, we have evolved the meaning of diet into something that creates dislike against a healthy lifestyle.

As consumers, we have been conditioned to advertisements and how they have instilled ideas that are sadly wrong. we as consumers need to educate ourselves to find the real culprit of the increasing obesity rates, overeating habits, and other.

When we think diet, we think a clear-cut eating plan without anything else. This ideal created restrictions which then as human nature we crave into these restrictions which then lead to craving of the restricted foods, we then indulge in the craving breaking the diet, at the end we feel depressed because we failed the diet and then we start again, its just an endless circle that has no solution.

Step out of the ideal of diet, and instill healthy habits into your life, like eating consciously, knowing what ingredients you are putting in your body. By becoming avid readers of nutrition facts and how "healthy" things in the supermarket are sometimes unhealthy due to an array of additives. More of this to come!


Link to article on a nutritionist idea on what a balanced diet entails, click here.

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