Everyone has ‘the perfect diet or nutrition challenge’. How do you sort the good from the bad, the healthy from unhealthy? Even with what is a good nutrition plan, it can be poorly adapted and implemented.

A ‘challenge’ is just that, a ‘challenge.’ It has an end goal, a result! This is our first problem. The focus is on the short-term outcome, ignoring the all-important lifestyle changes needed to ensure long term nutritional habit change and success.

‘Challenges’ are generally originated from poor sources that have little or no scientific or medical research to confirm their claims. Some take good nutrition and polarise the content to highlight one aspect and then hold it up as the only true solution. We have all see them, low fat, high fat, low carbs, high carbs, protein only days, etc.

Structure and routine provide a stabilising force in our lives that allows freedom to focus on bigger things. Being provided with a foundation for food groups, quantities and shopping requirements, free us to concentrate on just doing rather than all the research and preparation needed to just get started.

Looking at our nutrition often gives us a reset, a fresh start in changing our lifestyle habits. By establishing a cycle to our plan, we can create short-term goals that are achievable. Instead of looking at losing 12kg in a year we can look at maintaining losing 1kg a month. So much easier.

Our battle in finding our solution within the array of ‘golden goose’ plans is that they do not see you, they are ‘one size fits all’ solutions. They have their start and end date and then nothing after that, no lifestyle or habit changes.

Worst of all they generally encourage some form of restriction. Although in the right hands and tailored specifically to you that is not always a problem, it is not for everyone and can lead to some unhealthy issues with food.

Now, let me contradict myself, I ‘challenge’ you to change lifestyle habits in relation to your nutrition. This is different. It’s about looking at evidence, together with you as an individual to establish lifelong changes to eating habits that have a positive and sustainable outcome to your health and fitness.

We can work with you online or in person to achieve nutrition success and weight loss.

Just drop us a message and let’s start to support you now, schedule a goal setting appointment with us (here).

Andy
CrossFit Ickenham
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Are Nutrition Challenges Good?

Everyone has ‘the perfect diet or nutrition challenge’. How do you sort the good from the bad, the healthy from unhealthy? Even with what is a good nutrition plan, it can be poorly adapted and implemented.