What is it going to take to get people to understand the importance of nutrition in their quest for fat loss?
Almost every day someone (family, friends, clients, and even strangers) expresses some frustration with their fat loss results, yet when I ask them about their nutrition all they can tell me is “I’m eating clean” or “I eat nothing but healthy foods” or “I think my calories are around 1600” or even “no one knows any more about nutrition than I do”……….makes me just want to scream!!!
Just because you’re eating healthful foods (if in fact you really are) doesn’t say anything about the timing or number of cals you’re taking in. Also, if you’re just guessing about the number of calories you’re eating or you use the words “about” or “around” or “I think”, then you don’t really know crap about your nutrition. And I’ll tell you this with no reservations at all……if you think you know more about nutrition and specifically how it relates to fitness and fat loss than I do, there is a 99.99% chance that you are WRONG!!!
If you’re not tracking your food intake, then how do you know how many calories you’re eating and how do you know what the macronutrient breakdown is? If you don’t have this information then how do you know what to change when you aren’t seeing the results you want? Quit making excuses about how hard it is to journal your food intake or how you don’t have time to do it………you’re just wasting your time and energy until you do start doing it, so if you’ve got all this precious time and energy to waste then you certainly have time and energy to keep a food log.
And, if you really think you know so much about nutrition, then explain to me why you and your whole family are unhealthy and obese………..and don’t try to say that it’s all in your genetics and that your mother/father was this way and you’ve always been this way so this is the way you were meant to be. That’s just a cop-out and laziness.
Until you’re ready to track your food intake, give up the junk, cut out the booze, admit that you obviously don’t know what you are doing and start listening to someone who does, then you will remain the way you are and continue to be frustrated with your results.
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- Medford, OR, United States
- Hi! I'm Patrick Frey, your in-home, online and on-the-trail Personal Trainer, Fitness Educator, and Strength & Conditioning Specialist. With over 35 years of fitness experience, and certifications from the National Strength and Conditioning Association, the International Sports Sciences Association, and the American Council on Exercise, I have the knowledge and experience you need to reach your health and fitness goals. My interests over the years have included running, bicycling, cross-country skiing, hiking, backpacking, bodybuilding, powerlifting, olympic lifting, volleyball, and general health, fitness and nutrition. I've trained hundreds of people of all ages and abilities from elite athletes to sedentary couch potatoes, in everything from well equipped gyms to un-equipped homes, online, in the park and on the trails. To me, there's nothing more exciting than helping people improve their health, look better, feel better, or improve their sports performance.
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