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Food Restricting and Why it Isn’t a Great Idea.
So, Why Isn’t Food Restricting a Good Idea?
Picture this, you signed up to work with personal trainer and have a solid plan for the next 6 months for fitness. With fitness comes nutrition, so you toss out all your sugary snacks, commit to salad for lunch every day, promise to purchase fat free groceries and absolutely no fast food. Perfect! This is it, this will be the time that your goals are reached, you are feeling motivated. Now, fast-forward 3 weeks, your trainer is doing a check in asking about your nutrition and how it’s going working out on your own… As the trainer, I hear “Well, I had ________ happen, and so I had a set back, I’ll give it a go again this week.” or “Yeah! I ate 1200 calories a day! And I came to the gym 3 times a day.” I don’t want to hear either!
Clients resort to food restricting and compassion restricting to try to reach their goals and yes, you will make changes you should not take it to extremes. That leads you straight down the path to burnout.
Let’s talk about the food restricting first. The go to nutrients to restrict are fat, carbs and sugar. Or calories all together!
