For me, I'm in a really strange place. I'm heavier than I've been in a while but I feel amazing and a sense of peace. My weight doesn't define who I am as a person. It doesn't mean anything unless I give it a specific meaning.
I've decided to consciously put on muscle mass for the next few months and that means eating more and lifting heavier. In order to do this though, I have to EAT and that means gaining weight which I am okay with. I'm not eating crap mind you...I'm still adhering to my principles:
1. Fresh Food is best/Minimal Processed Foods
2. Plenty of Water
3. Minimizing Sugar Intake
4. Eat Breakfast
5.Minimizing Alcohol Intake
This is not a diet plan. Those are my principles for living better and maintenance. If you follow these principles, then guaranteed your health will improve and you will feel better. My thing is this: I don't want to get stuck having to eat 1500 calories or less because my metabolism has down regulated to the point where that's all my metabolism can handle. After being in a caloric deficit for a year or more, I have to work on improving my metabolic adaptation. Therefore I am eating more, no cardio, and strength training. It will make it that much easier when I enter a fat loss phase.
So right now I am getting back into the weight room after focusing on Movement Training for the past 2 months. I still have my movement training using different tools such as this resistance band. but now I am incorporating Total Body Weight Workouts 2x per week.
My Current Workout Schedule Looks like this
Monday: Total Body Strength Training
Tuesday: Loaded Movement Training
Wednesday: Pi-Yo Fitness (Movement and Core Training)
Thursday: Total Body Strength Training
Friday: Dynamic Flexibility/Core
Saturday: Bootcamp Style Circuits w/Treadmill Intervals
The purpose is to continue to work on my range of motion and core strength before going back into a Strength Program so that i can get the most out of my strength workouts and minimize injury. I have become an advocate of periodizing workouts. Range of Motion, Movement, Strength, and Fat Loss /Conditioning should all have their seasons in your programs. It helps to avoid plateaus, boredom, and minimizing injury. I am going to have resources available that explains all of this in more detail.
Is the Search for the Perfect Diet a waste of time?
Yes.
I see it on social media all the time. All these gurus and coaches have the perfect diets and perfect meal plans that are going to get you results. My thing is always...okay I want to see receipts after ONE YEAR. Here's the thing: Diets DO work. You will get results on many of these plans but can you sustain those results long term? Will your body keep responding or get stuck?
What we know about diets are that most people cannot sustain the results. They gain the weight back and many times gain back even more. There's a lot of reasons for this and many of them have nothing to do with food. A lot of it is environment and most of it is mindset. Stay tuned people. I'm bringing the heat in the second half of 2015.
Yes your search for the perfect diet is a waste of time because there is no perfect. People keep coming up with these rules and restrictions disguised as the perfect diet, but all they are doing is eliminating calories from the diet and giving people something else to focus and feel they have control over.
Control
I'm going to drop this right here and Ill be talking more about this but if you feel like you need to have control and rules over your food, then you have zero control and you are just adding to your anxiety and you will eventually crash and burn. Eating disorders are not about food but about the need to have some type of CONTROL over one's life and sadly that's becoming a mainstream norm.
Do you know what control is? Going into the store and seeing Justin's Peanut Butter cups and saying "Nah I'm good. I don't want those so I'm not buying them." It's not sitting there saying to myself "I can't do this because it's against the rules and I will get fat."
It's going out to eat and saying I'm getting the grilled chicken and rice because that's what I want tonight and giving ZERO effs about it. It's also going out for a meal, enjoying it, moving on with my life, and on to the next one. If you have control, then you have the freedom to make your own choices because that's what YOU want to do...not because of restrictions and self imposed rules.
What should you do?
I'm glad you asked. I will have resources available (Hopefully by next month) that helps people really get to the ROOT of the problem. It's not your food, it's not your meal plan, it's not the perfect coach or guru, it's none of that! It's your deeply ingrained attitudes and mindsets about food. It's about where you are in your life right now. It's about your environment, relationships with people (or lack thereof), it's about your MINDSET.
Stay tuned Friends....It's time to Say Something Different.
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