After another weekend of gorging, this blogger’s posts hit home. A few choice excerpts from Craig Harper’s top 15: Nutrition for Dummies.
| 3) | If it comes in an exciting range of fluorescent colours, don’t eat it. |
| 4) | Nobody accidentally eats cake. Own your choices and your behaviours. |
| 6) | Calories consumed in secret count. Your friends might not know but your arse will. |
| 7) | If dieting was an effective way to lose weight permanently, nobody would ever diet twice. |
| 8) | Don’t confuse ‘what your head wants’ with what your body needs. Your mind is a lying b*tch. |
| 10) | If you haven’t had a poo since June, maybe cut back on the processed food. And try a little fibre. Just saying. |
Then he follows up with another solid post titled: Your Body: One Year From Today – A Question of Change. A few excerpts:
“…If you’re serious about changing your body, and more importantly, keeping it that way, below you’ll find 12 relevant, valuable and potentially-transformational questions…
1.) What do you want your body to look, feel and function like one year from today (be specific)?…
2.) What do you need to do practically, to make your goal a reality? …
7.) What’s one simple thing (that will make a difference) that you can change today? …
8.) What happened over the last 365 days (with your body)? Why? …
9.) Are you genuinely prepared to do the work (and to keep doing it), or do you just like ‘the idea’ of a different body?…
10.) Do you need to change your relationship with food? If so, how?…
…Statistically, we know that, despite their conversations, declarations and intentions, most people won’t improve their health or fitness over the next year. Some will, most won’t. Of course, they can change and they want to change, but sadly, they won’t. Like the majority of our ever-expanding population, some will continue to get on and off the weight-loss merry-go-round, all the while complaining about their genetics, the weather, their sore ankle, their limited time and their exhausting schedule. And then they’ll wake up and it will be July 2013…”
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I consider this an intervention. The words speak to me very loudly. Thanks, David! And, this time, I’m not joking; very serious…THANKS!
Glad to hear it Dale. Most (all) of my posts are directed to me. Glad to hear that this is helpful to you as well. We’ll tag team this da*n thing!
I’m in the throes of changing my diet – and all these questions are so on point..
And I’ve been changing my diet on a weekly basis for 25 years. It goes like this: binge, get disgusted, choke food intake and exercise like a mad-man. Get weight down. Start loop over.
I’m with you until you get to exercise like a mad-man. I just started behaving a bit like gym-rat a year ago, and now go three-four times a week, and swim on my off-days. But it reads far more impressively than the reality. For me though it is time to take the weight off and once there, keep it off. My new mantra includes all of the questions posed on your post. Though I’d be lying if I said that I don’t totally crave a hot fudge sundae..
🙂
Can I still eat chocolate?
Of course! Chocolate is an exclusion.
This is quite funny, considering the post and pics I put up today. 😆
Yes, it is. I saw your post. Incredible.
Sensible advice.
Yes, now to execute (consistently).
IT IS POSSIBLE!
In the last 15 months I improved my fitness level, reduced my blood pressure, and lost 12 pounds (significant for someone 5’3). All the crap I used to love – cheesecake, heavy chocolate desserts, salty nachos and so on – isn’t remotely tempting. Time, effort, determination – and then new habits take over.
I still love good dark chocolate, but a square or two, rather than a bar or two, is now sufficient.
To quote Francine, BE ENCOURAGED!
Wow. Impressive. A victor among the legions of us that haven’t cracked this code. So, it is possible!
Great questions but unless we are constantly asking and answering them I think it turns into one more New Year’s resolution. It really is all about changing your relationship with food and loving yourself enough to eat only what is healthy and nourishing and in the right quantities. It’s been one of my goals this year and I’m doing well but it’s definitely a work in progress. Thanks for posting.
Good for you. Small incremental change leading to improvement seems to be the most promising way forward. Well done.
Just keep heading in the right direction, working in the health Industry give me daily peeks into people life’s who choose not to be healthy. I am always amazed when I meet patients who are my age or younger and have so many ailments and on so many medications and over 80% of it could have been prevented by life style changes such as diet and exercise. They are my motivation….off to the gym I go and I can pass up the cake, just don’t get me near pasta 🙂
Smiling. I could live on pasta and dessert!
My experience says, whenever you eat, whatever you eat, just spice it with hunger and you will be okay.
Makes sense Indira. I’ve never heard this expression. Now to only achieve it. Can you buy hunger spice at the supermarket? 🙂
No dear just don’t eat food for one day and you will have lot of hunger spice.
Now I’m laughing!
fantastic, it cuts straight through the (self) deceit! 🙂
Doesn’t he though!
Reblogged this on Single Again and commented:
David Kanigan’s straightforward article about the ever recurring problem of ‘weightloss’ is an eye opener! 🙂 Thanks David for sharing excerpts from Craig Harper’s blog post as well!
Thanks for sharing…
Both of these are great. It’s more than changing one’s relationship with food—it’s choosing to wake up and stay awake.
My problem is the reverse, I can’t sleep. But awakening, an entirely different principle which I am working on …
LOL. Accidentally eating cake! I enjoyed these.
Me too!
I have been the same weight for over twenty years BMI 22. I take vitamins, eat mostly organic food from my garden, eat very little meat always organic, and my garden gives me plenty of exercise. When its too cold, or too wet, or too hot, I put some music on and dance in the kitchen, sometimes all over the house. When people ask how I do it I tell them the above but they do not change in the long run. Oh yes, I drink one beer a night and highly recommend it! Your post is great but it’s hard to get even the people that you love to change their habits! Thanks for a great post.
Wow, you have this licked!
Many fine points made here–this guy sounds very sensible, and funny. “Your mind is a lying b*tch.” cracked me up. Though genetics has been very kind to me on this front, I also do my best to help the process along. I find that Michael Pollen’s dictum works well: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”. Sprinkle on a little of the Greek adage, “Everything in moderation and nothing to excess.” and I’m generally good. 🙂
Yes, as it the “haven’t poo since June” comment. I love your quote. Never heard it before and certainly come know where need adhering. Where is the ice cream part?
The ice cream comes in with the “everything in moderation.”. I interpret that as one hefty scoop instead of two. 🙂
Hefty scoop is right. And two is normal. (Please)
And one more thing–exercise in some way every day. You owe it to your body….
Of course. And if you can walk up stairs that never end, every better.
Precisely…. 🙂
Love no B.S. articles!
Yes, he hits you between the eyes!