01/03/2021
This “I’ve had a bad day” patter needs to stop.
There’s no such thing as a “bad day” when dieting, just bad decisions.
Stressed at work.
Someone died.
Something died (dog, cat, f*ckin goldfish)
Kids are doing your nut in.
Sabotaging your weight/fat loss goals is only gonna make your day worse.
You know why...? Because there’s always gonna be s**t happening and you need to stop relying on food as a coping mechanism. (Or even worse, using things as an excuse to be greedy)
The 5 minutes joy you experience eating s**te, then balanced against the hours of “I shouldn’t have had that”.
When most people say “I had a bad day...” it’s usually followed by one of;
I ate a bar of chocolate
I had a Chinese/chippy/Indian
I tucked into a bag of sweeties
Or some other nonsense.
Now, on the understanding that you can essentially eat ANYTHING so long as you adhere to a calorie deficit to lose weight, this is where we call bulls**t on the confessions.
“I had a bad day” translates into real person speak as, “I chucked everything in the f**k it bucket and ate like a greedy bastard for a day”.
If you’re offended by that, it’s probably because it’s you who does it.
The personal training confession of “I had a chocolate bar two weeks past Friday” is nonsense. Because when you step on the scales, instead of a number, it should just read “LIAR”.
So... point. Here it is.
All you dieters.
1. Stop talking pish about how much you’re eating. The scales and your measurements will tell the truth.
2. Eat WHATEVER YOU WANT, so long as you budget it to within a calorie allowance.
3. If you want to eat more, move more, it’ll afford you more calories to consume while still maintaining a deficit.
4. Stop, for f**ks sake, STOP, looking for people to tell you “it’s ok, just start again on Monday”, because that’s enabling destructive behaviour.
5. Decide if you actually want the body you say you do. Because if you did, you’d get on with it. If you have a day where you go over calories, you’ll rein in the calories in the following days and get on track.
Don’t be upset about the results you didn’t get because of the work you didn’t do.
Also, coaches will nod and smile and tell you it’s ok to constantly be getting further from your goals so long as you’re paying them.
Stop paying your coach and then tell them you’ve put on weight, even though you “haven’t been eating that much”... see how much they care then.
I get that people won’t like my approach and that’s fine, but if you want results, if you want honesty and you want real accountability, I’ll direct you to ANY of my clients and they can tell you how it made them feel.
You are not a snowflake. You are not unique. You do not defy the laws of thermodynamics.
Any questions, mail me and I’ll happily help you out.