Are you tired of trying diets that don't work?
Have you ever wondered if there's a different approach to nutrition that doesn't involve restrictions or guilt?
We're here with you today to debunk many nutrition myths and help you find a sustainable and personalized approach to your diet.
We're exploring how to consider 'diet' as a noun and not a verb.
It's not about punishing yourself with diets;
it's about understanding your body and its unique needs.
You'll learn how to stop comparing your diet results to others and instead focus on what foods make your body feel its best.
What if we told you there's no such thing as 'good' or 'bad' food but a spectrum to help you balance your meals?
In our journey today, we'll explore a non-diet approach to nutrition, emphasizing the importance of food freedom.
We’ll guide you on how to keep a journal and monitor your body's responses to different changes.
You'll discover why a personalized approach to nutrition and fitness is key to a healthy lifestyle.
And remember, the Strong Her Way app and the Mindful Eating Project are great resources to accompany you on your journey to a healthier you. So, let's get started!
Ready to get started? Book a free consult today!
Download the app 👇🏼
The Strong(HER) Way on Apple
Are you tired of trying diets that don't work?
Have you ever wondered if there's a different approach to nutrition that doesn't involve restrictions or guilt?
We're here with you today to debunk many nutrition myths and help you find a sustainable and personalized approach to your diet.
We're exploring how to consider 'diet' as a noun and not a verb.
It's not about punishing yourself with diets;
it's about understanding your body and its unique needs.
You'll learn how to stop comparing your diet results to others and instead focus on what foods make your body feel its best.
What if we told you there's no such thing as 'good' or 'bad' food but a spectrum to help you balance your meals?
In our journey today, we'll explore a non-diet approach to nutrition, emphasizing the importance of food freedom.
We’ll guide you on how to keep a journal and monitor your body's responses to different changes.
You'll discover why a personalized approach to nutrition and fitness is key to a healthy lifestyle.
And remember, the Strong Her Way app and the Mindful Eating Project are great resources to accompany you on your journey to a healthier you. So, let's get started!
Ready to get started? Book a free consult today!
Download the app 👇🏼
The Strong(HER) Way on Apple
Hey friend, welcome back to the Strong Her Way to Eat, Move and Live. Here we talk all things food, freedom, fitness and life transformation, helping you heal your relationship to food, exercise your body and yourself. This week we are pulling an episode from the vault. I'm super excited to be bringing this episode back around, especially because, as I was just outlining some podcasts that we will be bringing to you over the next few weeks, we will be releasing a new episode that really just kind of takes this concept and expands on it a little bit further. So make sure that you tune back in to catch that episode. Before we dive in, I want to remind you that you can now download your free version of the Strong Her Way app on either the Google App Store or in the Apple App Store as well. So, wherever you're getting your apps, go ahead and grab your free download. You'll get immediate access to the Mindful Eating Project, which is really just a great way to kind of introduce you into more of that non-diet approach around food. Plus, you'll have immediate access to three workouts that you can do at home, you can take with you to the gym. So make sure you grab that copy and, without further ado, let's go ahead and get into that episode.
Speaker 1:We are going to dive into a client question. This is something that comes up over and over again. I see it in Facebook, I see it in just random conversations that I'm a part of. When it comes to food and diets and nutrition, the question is what diet is best for me now, or will this diet work for me? And if you have ever tried a diet in the past, or maybe you're contemplating trying a new diet now, there's always this question in the back of our minds. It's like, partially, there's the question of is this going to work for me, along with kind of the hope that I hope this works for me Now. I think one of the biggest temptations we can fall into is that we see somebody else starting a diet and we see all of this rapid weight loss or we see it working for them, and so we think automatically, whatever they're doing is what I need to be doing and that is going to work for me too.
Speaker 1:Now, before we get too much further into this conversation, I first want to caveat this with I like to look at and think of the word diet in two different ways. Now, I'm pretty sure I've probably mentioned this before on another podcast episode, but it is worth to repeat here, and the way that I think about diet is either as a verb or as a noun. Now, when we think about diet the word diet in that verb context we think about going on a diet and it's almost like immediately, all of the foods that you know you're not going to be able to eat once you start this diet start to sound really good, even though you maybe weren't even thinking about them at all up until the point that you decided to cut them out of your food, right of the things that you were sort of permitted or were on limits for you to eat. The other way that you can think about diet is as a noun. So this is the things like the keto diet or the paleo diet, and it really is just a style of eating.
Speaker 1:So I think where we end up really getting into a lot of trouble is when we approach food and nutrition from the place of diet as a verb. So through that mentality that is oftentimes fueled by a lot of restriction and deprivation around foods. We have good foods, we have bad foods, we have foods that are on limits, foods that are off limits, foods that we're going to feel really bad about eating, feel guilty and things like that If we eat those versus if we can just look at food from kind of a neutral perspective. All food exists on a scale. There's not really a good food or a bad food. Now, of course, there are going to be foods that add maybe more nutrition, add more nutrients to you overall, but that doesn't mean that cookies or ice cream or chips or different things like that can't also be a part of a healthy, balanced diet overall.
Speaker 1:And so when you are thinking about starting a new diet or starting a new nutrition program whatever you want to call it first you want to ask yourself is this something I could really see myself doing and committing to for the long term? Because the other thing that I oftentimes see is that when we're thinking about going on a diet or starting a diet, we think about it in terms of there's going to be a point where there is a finish, whether it's, you know, you're trying to lose weight or go on a diet for a wedding or an event, or you're going to do this diet for six weeks or 12 weeks or until you reach a certain weight loss goal, but it's always in the back of your mind that you're doing it with a finish line in mind and then you're planning to go back to eating and living your life the way that you were before. So you really just want to export. Is this something I could really see myself doing for the rest of my life? Now, the other thing that you want to consider and really keep in mind perhaps this is something you are hearing for the very first time, but it's this idea that just because you eat a certain way or you work out a certain way, that doesn't necessarily mean you're going to have the same results as somebody else that is eating, let's say, this keto diet or is following this new workout program. Our bodies are so different and that's why, really across the span of nutrition and food and fitness even, we are really seeing more of an individualized approach, because the way that your body responds to a specific food isn't going to be the same way that I respond to it, or your husband or your kids or your sister or whoever else might be eating that same kind of a diet. So you just want to keep in mind that just because you're eating the same thing or you're starting this diet, you may or may not have the same results, so you want to go into it with less of a? Okay, if I do this, then I'm going to for sure get this result and more of kind of an exploratory or kind of a curious behavior or mentality around it. Right, it's like I'm going to try this and then I'm going to see how I feel.
Speaker 1:Now, ways that you can sort of judge or kind of decide whether or not a specific diet or style of eating is working for you are things like your sleep, your hunger, your mood, your energy level and your cravings. If you notice any of those things kind of getting out of whack, you know either you're getting like, oh, you're having too many cravings, or you're not hungry at all, or you're hungry all the time. Now you just want to look for any changes in those five specific areas to help you kind of determine if these specific Changes that you have made in your nutrition or around your diet are in fact helping you or if they are hurting you. Now it's going to be kind of hard perhaps to know whether or not any of those things are affected If you're not used to kind of checking in with your body Anyway. So before you make any changes to your nutrition or any changes to your fitness or anything like that your fitness routine, I would definitely recommend that you spend Probably at least a week Ideally maybe two or three weeks kind of journaling and just keeping track of those different areas. How are you currently sleeping? What's your hunger like now? How is your mood? Do you feel like you kind of have that afternoon crash? Do you notice that your cravings are out of control? What's your energy level like? So if you can start kind of tracking those things, you're going to be able to get a little bit of a baseline so that when you start to make these different changes to nutrition or, you know, incorporating maybe more cardio or more hit or different kinds of workouts, you can really get a sense of how that is impacting those areas. And then you want to, you know, essentially kind of make that at habit where you are continually just kind of checking in.
Speaker 1:You don't have to be super meticulous with your journaling. Maybe Keeping sort of a voice memo journal on your phone works a little bit better. Maybe you like to have like a specific tracking sheet. I know you can download a bunch of those for free. Um, I might even have have one that you can have for free as well. So if you're interested in a tracking sheet, you can just email alisha at alisha carlsoncom and I can send that to you for free. But just having something that is going to allow you to kind of get a general idea For your baseline now and then, as you start to implement changes whether it's, you know, in your sleep or your food or your exercise or anything you can start to keep track of how it is impacting you and how your body is responding Right. If it's something that is favorable, that is working for your body, you're going to notice those things kind of start to even out, um, and not be so all over the place.
Speaker 1:So this was just a really quick kind of q&a. I like to call these those little bite size or those snack sized episodes for you. But really and truly, when I first start working with people, one of the first things that comes up is what kind of a diet Should I do, or how should I be eating? What should I be eating? I think we've really been Kind of trained and conditioned to think that somebody else an expert or a guru Knows your body and knows what you're going to need or how you're going to respond better than you do. And I really like to kind of put my clients in the driver's seat. Now. You don't have to be an expert on yourself yet. You don't have to be a guru. You don't have to know everything about nutrition. Um, I don't know everything about nutrition, but I can definitely kind of be that guide or that person that's sitting in the passenger seat, sort of helping you navigate it and figure it out. But ultimately, at the end of the day, you trying something and testing it with your own body, seeing how your body responds, seeing whether or not it works or it doesn't work, is going to be the best way to take really that customize, that individualized approach To nutrition, to sleep, to exercise, to different habits and things like that. And so that's really where that customized approach Takes the cake, as far as I'm concerned, over just picking up a diet or trying another diet Just because somebody else is and then getting frustrated when you're not necessarily getting the same results.
Speaker 1:So if you are listening to this or if you've been listening to the show for a little while and you really feel like this is the kind of approach that you want to take. You want to take that non diet approach. You don't ever want to feel like you're starting a diet again, but you also want to experience food freedom in a healthy and truly freeing way, while also taking into consideration the rest of your life and really finding an approach that works for you and your body and your life forever. Then I want to invite you to email alisha at alisha Carlson calm To learn more about my non diet approach and whether or not that is what you are looking for.
Speaker 1:Hope that you have a great rest of your day. Thank you so much for tuning in and spending your time with me. I hope that you will take something from this and apply it directly to your life. If this episode, or any episode, has helped you at all, please consider leaving us a review on apple and spotify or wherever you listen to your podcast and share this with somebody who might need this kind of approach to their own Food and fitness journey. Until next week, have a great rest of your day. We'll talk to you soon. Bye.