Taoist Immortal

So pretty much every personal trainer online seems to have their own "clean eating" plan now, right?

I mentioned this the other day and people wanted me to write it up… so here it is.

I’m all for healthier nutrition and it’s certainly a better idea than these scumbags telling people “just take our supplement it doesn’t even matter if you eat junk and skip training”… but is your average trainer actually qualified to put such a package together? Especially when they make specific claims about the health benefits and ESPECIALLY when they seem to think they know better than actual nutritionists and dieticians. I have my concerns that (other than the ones who’ll adopt whatever is the latest marketing trend to make a few bucks) a lot of the trainers pushing clean eating are former eating disorder sufferers who’ve gone from whatever they had in the past to orthorexia, and are now passing that on to their clients. Obviously that’s no good!

I’m looking into studying for a qualification in nutrition and dietetics soon, but until then… I can give you a very accurate prediction of how many calories should result in maintaining your goal weight, I can recommend a ratio of macronutrients to get the best results from training, and I can tell you “lots of fruit and veggies for your vitamins and minerals”, but that’s where I draw the line.

PUNTERS: Here’s the actual truth;

1. To manage your weight, you need to get the right amount of calories. Not too much, not too little.
2. More of these calories from nutritious, fresh, unprocessed, natural foods is a great idea for your health, but your won’t fall apart or spontaneously combust at the first sniff of some “unclean” foods.
3. If you want to actually look like you’re in shape as well as just get lighter, you’re going to need to put in a decent effort in training. Up to an hour, five days a week is probably ideal.
4. If you’re not taking care of 1 and 3, there is no supplement, pill, powder or steroid that will make up for it!

Research shows low carb diets reduce life expectancy by 30%

yep, that’s the latest news. It’s EXACTLY LIKE I HAVE ALWAYS SAID aka YOU NEED CARBS.

Here’s the deal though. It’s like I said in those earlier articles, go back 30 years and all of a sudden “high fat diets will kill you, stop eating eggs and go low fat!”, right? Then all of a sudden Atkins diet comes out and everyone was going “oh my god we thought it was fats but it turns out carbs will kill you! you have to go low carb because glycemic indexes!”, right? And from there you got all this other stuff… it’s not just the paleo / caveman stuff either… I can take or leave that approach because it does cut out a lot of the stuff that some people are likely to be intolerant to (but please DO NOT try to say that it is only way to lose weight and everyone needs to cut that stuff out)… but people take it to extremes with this absolute PHOBIA of carbs, where MORONS are telling people “don’t eat too many carrots they are high in carbs!” for example.

FUCKING CARROTS I SWEAR TO GOD.

The urban myths keep changing, and the latest research will support this or that theory. It’s all bullshit. Like I keep saying, look back to the 60s or 70s, watch some old tv shows from before there was an obesity epidemic. Are you trying to tell me those people never ate a piece of toast, or an ice cream? That was before people started thinking they needed to be low fat or carb free or whatever the latest fad is. They simply ate “about the right amount” either through intuition or because money was tighter and portion sizes were smaller.

Disregard any other nonsense that morons tell you, or scumbags push to make a buck from a new fad. You do need a varied diet consisting of carbs, fats, protein, fibre, vitamins and minerals.

How does over eating effect weight loss?

An important post inspired by some of my people on here who get WAY too upset with themselves for the odd blow out on their meal plan.

Check it out.

What you can see here is a graph showing daily intake for a hypothetical weight loss client. As you can see, s/he is on track all week.. but there’s pizza on Saturday night resulting in exceeding maintenance calories that day.

What you can also see in the final “average intake for the week” column is that even this feast of delicious pizza has only put us just above our ideal maximum daily intake (on average) by about 26 calories, and we’re still WELL below maintenance for the week.

In other words, absolutely nothing to worry about. 

It’s like I keep saying, all you need is to know your ideal “no less than this amount, no more than that amount” range of calories to support your goal weight. Then you just need to be “reasonably close, more often than not, on average” to those guidelines.

Unrealistically trying to force yourself to adhere to a plan any stricter than this is both pointless and counter productive, IMO, and you’ll be far more likely to overeat more often.

There’s a whole post on my main site you should read about this. Click the link above.

Now if you will excuse me, I have to go and make some pancakes. And ice cream.

I just called out News Limited for promoting eating disorders

because I DON’T GIVE A FUCK HOW BIG AND POWERFUL YOU ARE, if you push eating disorder style “diets” I am going to pick a fight with you.

There wasn’t a link to this article on their facebook, so I had to post under a different diet / weight loss related article.

Go like my comment here: 

by popular request my review of The Fast Diet

reblogged from buster1971

dhpt:

read the full article and share with your friends!

As I’ve talked about a lot here already, most people trying to lose weight are already over restricting their intake of calories. Maybe they’re on those stupid VLCD meal replacement programs, or whatever other starvation fad diet. Maybe they’re counting calories and limiting to 1200 per day as per urban myth on how to lose weight. Also they’re smashing hours of cardio on the treadmill or dance based fatigue chasing exercise programs as well. But they’re not getting results, so they think “great, I’ll do this as well. A couple of days a week at 500 calories… actually, I’ll do it every second day instead. Actually, I’ll make it 200 calories instead of 500 since I find it so hard to lose weight”.

Honestly, think of the people you know who go on and off these sort of fad diets and tell me that’s NOT what most of them are likely to do? If you’re an apologist you might argue “but that’s not what it says in the book, you can’t blame them if people take the idea to extremes beyond what they recommend” but actually I don’t give a FUCK about that and I DO blame them. You’re putting out a message “to lose weight, don’t eat” which apart from not even being correct is entirely dangerous and irresponsible.

If you guys even knew how many first aid incidents I was called to in my corporate security days that turned out to be a woman passing out from low blood sugar due to not eating all day. It was A LOT. What happens when that happens to someone on this stupid diet while driving their kids to school or something?

more people should see this i think.

by popular request my review of The Fast Diet

read the full article and share with your friends!

As I’ve talked about a lot here already, most people trying to lose weight are already over restricting their intake of calories. Maybe they’re on those stupid VLCD meal replacement programs, or whatever other starvation fad diet. Maybe they’re counting calories and limiting to 1200 per day as per urban myth on how to lose weight. Also they’re smashing hours of cardio on the treadmill or dance based fatigue chasing exercise programs as well. But they’re not getting results, so they think “great, I’ll do this as well. A couple of days a week at 500 calories… actually, I’ll do it every second day instead. Actually, I’ll make it 200 calories instead of 500 since I find it so hard to lose weight”.

Honestly, think of the people you know who go on and off these sort of fad diets and tell me that’s NOT what most of them are likely to do? If you’re an apologist you might argue “but that’s not what it says in the book, you can’t blame them if people take the idea to extremes beyond what they recommend” but actually I don’t give a FUCK about that and I DO blame them. You’re putting out a message “to lose weight, don’t eat” which apart from not even being correct is entirely dangerous and irresponsible.

If you guys even knew how many first aid incidents I was called to in my corporate security days that turned out to be a woman passing out from low blood sugar due to not eating all day. It was A LOT. What happens when that happens to someone on this stupid diet while driving their kids to school or something?