Situation 1
Think about your latest family dinning experience. Imagine you are the only one adhering to the “diet”. In this case you are on the famous Atkins diet (no carbs). At this family meal the rest of your family is eating garlic bread, pasta salads, chicken, and cake for desert. You have decided that you will prepare your own salad and just eat the chicken (protein), while neglecting to eat the bread, pasta, and cake. While the rest of your family enjoys the “normal” meal, you feel envious of the “tasty” foods that everyone else gets to eat. You eat your salad and chicken while feeling edgy and irritable. The end result, you won’t be long before you get tired of cooking different meals then everyone else, and feel restricted by what you can eat. You end up giving up on the diet and go back to your normal eating habits. So what is the solution?
Situation 2
Think about this same dinning experience, except you are not dieting. You are following the Physically active clean eating lifestyle plan. You sit down for dinner and eat garlic bread, pasta salad, chicken, and cake for desert. You do not feel restricted by what foods you have eaten and you do not feel guilty. In eating such foods you have given your body and mind exactly what they have craved/desired.
What makes situation two different is that you have exercised 30-60 min 5 days this week before your family dinning experience. In addition, you also have a greater understanding of portion control (see portion control and serving sizes). You recognize that 4 inches of garlic bread, 3/4 cup of pasta, 1/2 chicken breast, and a small portion of cake is more then enough to fill you. You understand that the reason you are eating is to provide your body with nourishment and nutrients to sustain life. You are not eating to feel uncomfortably full. You are not eating excessive amounts because there is no food to consume in the latter hours of the evening. You are eating to live; you are eating because you are hungry!
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