You can’t exercise your way out of a bad diet

Hello Everyone,

I know a lot of you are putting in some hard work at FightClub. I want to make sure you are getting all the support to meet your goals for optimum health.

Have a read below....remember to keep training hard and focus on your goals!

emmanuel

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You can’t exercise your way out of a bad diet. Lots of people have tried (including me). But that doesn’t mean you have to be obsessive about food.I’ve had several people talk to me this week about messing up on their diet or indulging in a treat. Invariably, they all felt guilty about it. And I’ll ‘fess up too. I’m writing this at a Coffee shop and I had a biscotti with my double espresso. Yep, I’m feeling a bit guilty about it.

Our societal attitudes about food is uncanny. And the dysfunctional all-or-nothing associations we have with food.

Food is tied to life and our social interactions, and we have to be able to interact with food in this way without succumbing to guilt and dejection about not following a “perfect” diet. In other words, if you’re going to indulge in delicious but calorie-dense food, enjoy it fully and move on. Don’t make a habit of it, but don’t dwell on it either.

How High School Math Can Help

1. 80% — 20% Balance

I often frame this as the 90% rule. Pick a nutritional strategy that works for you and that makes sense. Then stick to it like glue 80% of the time. The other 20% you can indulge reasonably and you’ll do just fine.To get the hang of it, you can chart it out at first. Figure out your ideal week and make up a sheet with every meal mapped out. Put the chart on the fridge!

2. 80% Full

That does NOT mean you can pig out during those meals. It just means you can loosen your restrictions on what you eat. So if you go out with friends for lunch, pick whatever you want off the menu, then eat until you are ALMOST full, but not quite. Until you are 80% full. This is a custom which comes from Japanese culture (Hara hachi bu).

3. Don’t Try To Be Perfect

The most effective way to ensure you will fail is to set yourself up as perfect. When you fall, dust yourself off and keep trudging along. Every single day you get to start over again in the quest for a better you.


Emmanuel