SwingsitlikeHogan
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Precisely…?As opposed to the salad-based takeaway 'Tossed' where a salad costs £8.![]()
Precisely…?As opposed to the salad-based takeaway 'Tossed' where a salad costs £8.![]()
Spot on and if we try and identify when these changes started creeping in we need to look at ourselves and our parents.The issue is very complex and multi-faceted. A few points which are covered already I am sure, but add all of these up (and combine and any which way) you see why as a nation we are a mess, going to be a mess of a ranty post, but I am covering so many points!
#1 Education - people need to be taught how to
Meal Plan
Exercise
Basic Cooking /Home Economics
Make better choices
Fat is the new normal. It's almost glorified to be 'plus sized'
Cheap high sugar food is everywhere
people are fundamentally lazy (Exercise wise)
people are fundamentally lazy (Planning and cooking. Who writes a meal plan and sticks to it using healthier ingredients?)
Alcohol. As a nation, we have normalized and accepted binge/excessive drinking
It makes me so sad to see fat kids from fat parents, they don't stand a chance. The strain on the health service with secondary conditions triggered by obesity/bad diets.
we need to look at ourselves and our parents.
This hasn’t happened overnight!
It's crept up on us to the extent that thin people now stand out in the crowd.Fat is the new normal. It's almost glorified to be 'plus sized'
Again I totally agree, but go back and read just about every post and try and find anyone taking any responsibility.This bit!
Now I am a bit of a health nut, but my kids diets are still pretty crap (worse than mine!) But its about balance, I am not trying to be all preachy here, they have something with chip and beans at least once a week, Friday night is Pizza night and they eat Mcdonalds, KFC, occasionally. BUT, they also get a really balanced lunch every day, a non-sugary (as best you can!!) Cereal every morning and plenty of veg etc at tea time, even if its hidden blitzed up into a sauce etc.
Pudding is now once a week, rather than every (other) day, yogurts, fruit etc all available any time,
They have biscuits and crisps etc still, just not as much as they want! It is controlled. I think a blanket ban on something will only create resentment and defiance and or anarchy
If it has more than 5 ingredients and some of them you don't know what they are, you probably shouldn't eat it. (But I bet it would taste nice!)
Something else to think about which is taught at my gym is 'It's okay to have bad days. It's how you deal with that bad day after it's happened.'.
Last month two nights out for friends birthdays. Felt bad even though I'd eaten as healthily as possible. My assigned trainer said, you've still got to have fun. It cant all be give and no take.
That month I lost 5kg, so I know that as long as I'm sensible for majority of the time and only a few bad days then I'm probably going to be OK.
I go to a personal training gym. I know the PTs don't mind a "naughty day", as we all went out for their Xmas party last weekend, and everyone was very naughty indeed - the restaurant ran out of white wine, and had to replace vodka bottles mid-service.
I was expecting it to be a rather dry affair, but no, they really went for it, and I tried my best too![]()
Have fun ?Ours is the same type of gym, ours is on Saturday![]()
What might help is changing your thought process when it comes to “bad” days, they’re not bad days, they are just days when you haven’t gone to the gym or eaten particular foods.Something else to think about which is taught at my gym is 'It's okay to have bad days. It's how you deal with that bad day after it's happened.'.
Last month two nights out for friends birthdays. Felt bad even though I'd eaten as healthily as possible. My assigned trainer said, you've still got to have fun. It cant all be give and no take.
That month I lost 5kg, so I know that as long as I'm sensible for majority of the time and only a few bad days then I'm probably going to be OK.
What might help is changing your thought process when it comes to “bad” days, they’re not bad days, they are just days when you haven’t gone to the gym or eaten particular foods.
By the sounds of it you are doing great, but we punish ourselves or go on guilt trips when we relax a bit.
Ignore your bad or naughty or whatever negative phrase we use to describe them and focus on the positives, try to look over a period of weeks or months rather than a day.![]()
I am working on finding a 'happy place'