Week 7

Last week you spent some time learning about “Diets & Nutrition Myths”. This should have helped begin to address some of the negative beliefs or misunderstandings you may have had around diets and nutrition in general in the past.

It would be naïve to assume, that simply going through that exercise and watching those videos, is enough to completely change your perspective on these subjects. However, it should have definitely helped open your eyes to a few things, and in doing so, created that element of doubt, that can help you start to move away from your old way of thinking about diets and nutrition.

This week to continue that momentum, I want you to watch the videos on “Good & Bad foods, and Macronutrients”. One of the aims of these videos is to help give you a new way of looking at and defining foods. Rather than using the typical diet terminology of good or bad, healthy, or unhealthy, slimming or fattening, you can start to relabel foods more accurately, in a way that helps you decrease the guilt you may have around eating certain foods. It can help you realise that all foods have their place, and they have different benefits for different reasons.

For example, you may have previously defined a pizza as simply fattening, or BAD. Whereas following these videos, you will understand that a more accurate definition of pizza is, that its often very satiating, VERY satisfying, but probably low in nutrients and high in calories.

Like everything, it has pros and cons.

We also take a closer look at the 3 macronutrients – protein, fat, and carbohydrate.

These words get thrown around all the time by personal trainers, and its common for the average person to not really understand what they are referring to. It’s another thing that people often misunderstand. They may think carbs are “bad”, or fats are “bad” without really knowing why.

In these videos I break down exactly what they are, why they are ALL necessary, how they help the body function, and also touch upon why some of these things have a bigger impact on fat loss than others.

Once you have watched these videos, I want you to take the time to contemplate how you have previously labelled foods. Think about which foods you may typically class as good, or bad, healthy, unhealthy, and so on. And when you think of an example, I want you to take some time to redefine these foods for yourself. When you do this, and you remove the one dimensional way of looking at them as simply good or bad, you help alleviate some of the guilt you may feel around eating certain foods.

Summary Week 7

• Watch course “Good & Bad foods, and Macronutrients”
• Review how you label certain foods, and practice reframing them in the way you talk about them and the way you think