Do you have a BAD “Food Attitude”?
If you want to lose weight, shed fat and own the fit and healthy body you’ve always dreamed of, step #1 is to Lose the ‘Tude!
Do you snub vegetables? Do you make faces when someone tells you that they ate a healthy choice such as chicken or fish? Do you stick your nose up and say “eeeeewwwww” when someone tells you that a healthy breakfast consists of oatmeal and egg whites? If your response to the fact that you should be drinking water instead of soda is, “I hate water it has no flavor”, if you hear that sugar should be limited in a healthy diet and your response is “I would die without sugar”, if you hear that pizza and nachos are not staples of a healthy diet and your response is “Oh, you’re trying to take away all the “good” foods”…then you are severely suffering from a BAD “Food Attitude”!
I decided that this attitude towards food and healthy eating was an important topic to discuss because the comments above are ones that I hear on a consistent basis. I hear them from people who have come seeking help and guidance on how to lose fat weight and change their bodies, and also from people who are either still too scared of failure, or insecure, or not yet motivated to make positive changes to their eating habits.
When your diet consists of high fat, sugary, high sodium, laden with preservatives foods, and you make the switch to eating clean, I’m sure it is quite a shock to the palette.
If you’ve been eating crap for a while, then yes, switching to healthy foods is going to take some adjustment. Making that choice, to allow your taste buds to try something new, foods that will help you reach your fitness goals and are actually GOOD for you, is totally yours.
You can make faces, you can stick your nose up in the air, you can say “yuck”, “ew”, “gross”, all that you want, and you can stick with eating the fattening, sugar and grease loaded foods that make your mouth water, AND you can stick with the body that you have. It’s your body so you can do what you want to do with it. If you don’t want it to change, then you can insist that healthy foods are gross and you don’t like them, and you refuse to try them. The hard truth is that your body WILL NOT change if you stick with that attitude. In fact, as you get older the problems will get worse, body fat will continue to increase, clothing sizes will continue to creep higher and higher and health will decline.
What you will notice WHEN and IF you make the change is that you feel so much better. You will have more energy, you won’t feel lethargic or bloated, your skin won’t feel greasy and you will be able to change the way your body looks. You don’t really understand how bad all those foods are making you feel until you try eating clean for a while. Many people find that once they have switched they no longer want to eat the bad foods because they will get physically ill, or just feel really bloated and disgusting.
The truth is that healthy food IS delicious, and if you feed your body healthy foods it will start to crave them. There are so many options out there as far as types of foods you can eat and ways that you can flavor and spice things up. You have a lot of tasty options when it comes to healthy foods!
If you have a bad “Food Attitude”, but you say that you want to lose weight and change your body, then the first thing you need is an attitude adjustment!
To adjust your attitude, you have to ask yourself are you living to eat, or are you eating to live? If you are living to eat, and devouring whatever you deem “good” based on how much sugar and fat it is loaded with, then you have to also live with the visual and health consequences associated with making those choices. Living to eat means that you are looking at the short term instant gratification of a literally an INSTANT that it takes to put an unhealthy food in your mouth and eat it (most of this processed garbage doesn’t even require chewing any more). You are choosing THAT moment and the pleasure that it brings, and forgetting about the amount of pain that you are also choosing. The Pain of being uncomfortable in your own skin, being insecure, having failing health, not having energy, not enjoying life as much as you could, not being confident enough to date, not being able to keep up with your children or grandchildren. In the long term, that momentary pleasure doesn’t seem like it’s worth it in the long run.
On the other hand, if you eat to live then you get to enjoy a body that you love, improved health, energy, self-confidence, and so much more! The actual pleasure that you derive from making a healthy choice is impactful and long lasting and can improve your life in ALL areas, not just the physical.
Food is your fuel. There are a lot of uncontrollable situations in this world, but one thing that you DO have control over is how you choose to fuel your body. You can have your best body possible by making the right choices. What an incredible power to have! When you lose the bad “Food Attitude” and get excited about the fact that you can choose to eat foods, that DO taste good and also make your body look and feel good, then you will start to win the battle of the bulge.
ARE YOU READY TO CHANGE YOUR ATTITUDE, CHANGE YOUR BODY AND CHANGE YOUR LIFE?
IF YOUR ANSWER IS YES, WE ARE READY TO HELP YOU!
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