The January Trap
Dec 31, 2014 18:27:13 GMT -5
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Post by steffanie3 on Dec 31, 2014 18:27:13 GMT -5
The January Trap
Beware of the “must purge my body” mentality that millions adopt every January 1st. If you get up New Year’s morning with the resolution to drop a few pounds and get healthier here’s what not to do:
•Do not replace your regular breakfast with a green detox juice that makes you wince while you chug it down.
•Do not give one or two hours of your precious time to the gym exhausting yourself.
•Do not come home from said gym, choke down another juice concoction (that took half an hour to make and another half hour to clean the juicer) then make yourself a “mini me,” calorie stripped meal (telling yourself you can do this for life).
If you don’t absolutely love what you eat day 1 of 2015, then it WON’T be how you will eat for the rest of your life. And short term diets don’t work – we all know that. Not only do they not work – they harm. They mess with your metabolism and they cause a sense of failure when inevitably you give them up because life gets in the way of all your good intentions.
Our motto – treat yourself to goal!
Take the gentle and fun road to trim and healthy. Finding your trim should not be a miserable journey for you and consequently for your whole family. Baby stepping your way might take longer but the tortoise beat that hare remember?
Here’s an idea. Get up January 1st and if you are a coffee person, then by golly have a nice creamy cup of coffee. Fry up some eggs and bacon or eggs and veggies, sit back, relax… savor.. and know that you can actually do that for life! And believe it or not, that breakfast is a slimming one. Or… have pancakes, Trim Healthy ones of course (from page 223), but they’re every bit as good as the white, fattening kind. Yes, we just told you to eat carbs! Don’t leave out any food group – again, that doesn’t work long term. You crave both carbs and fat because you need them – simple as that.
The key to finding your trim for life is not mustering more self-control. Our own will power fails most of us in the end. The key is finding a slimming way of eating that you would actually prefer to eat, day after day than your old way of eating. If you start to enjoy your slimming foods so much that you feel sorry for everybody else who does not get to eat like you – that’s the recipe for life long success.
So purge no more! You don’t have to do a seven day cleanse to start 2015 and please don’t do a thirty day cleanse. Your metabolism will thank you if you take the sensible plod to goal rather than the race, crash and burn.
Sure, commit to plan, but the Trim Healthy Mama plan itself is kind and forgiving. Give the same grace to yourself with the calm assurance that this is for life, not a sprint to be endured. Yes, ditch the sugar and junk but we’ve got fantastic replacements just waiting for you to try. Yes, get moving, but that doesn’t mean you have to punish yourself in the gym. Quick effective exercise is the way we THM’s roll. If you only have time for 15 minutes three or four times a week – hey join the club. That’s about where we are.
To end this little post we’d like to leave you with some quotes from the Trim Healthy Mama book on this subject.
“Fast weight loss should never be your goal and it is definitely not what we promote.”
“Eating the S and E way is not a race to be skinny. It is a sensible way to restore food sanity back into your life and home and healthy weight will naturally develop.”
“Diets that tout ridiculously fast weight reduction tax the adrenal glands and mess with your hormones.”
“Run far away from magazine and book headlines that scream, “Six Weeks to a Bikini Ready Body!” Titles like that are the nemeses of this book.”
“We want you to be nourished, to enjoy eating as much as we do, and to watch with satisfaction as your husband and children gather around the table to a delicious, healthy meal that will build rather than destroy health.”
“You may be a mother with a lot of physical exhaustion and responsibility. We want to remind you of Isaiah 40:11, “He gently leads those that are with young.”
“We want this to be a gentle road for you. Seek a slow and steady reduction of fat.”
“Keep the overall, long term goal in mind. You are establishing healthy eating patterns now for your whole family. You are learning to include all food groups and understand the science behind how each of them impacts your body.”
Love Serene and Pearl
Beware of the “must purge my body” mentality that millions adopt every January 1st. If you get up New Year’s morning with the resolution to drop a few pounds and get healthier here’s what not to do:
•Do not replace your regular breakfast with a green detox juice that makes you wince while you chug it down.
•Do not give one or two hours of your precious time to the gym exhausting yourself.
•Do not come home from said gym, choke down another juice concoction (that took half an hour to make and another half hour to clean the juicer) then make yourself a “mini me,” calorie stripped meal (telling yourself you can do this for life).
If you don’t absolutely love what you eat day 1 of 2015, then it WON’T be how you will eat for the rest of your life. And short term diets don’t work – we all know that. Not only do they not work – they harm. They mess with your metabolism and they cause a sense of failure when inevitably you give them up because life gets in the way of all your good intentions.
Our motto – treat yourself to goal!
Take the gentle and fun road to trim and healthy. Finding your trim should not be a miserable journey for you and consequently for your whole family. Baby stepping your way might take longer but the tortoise beat that hare remember?
Here’s an idea. Get up January 1st and if you are a coffee person, then by golly have a nice creamy cup of coffee. Fry up some eggs and bacon or eggs and veggies, sit back, relax… savor.. and know that you can actually do that for life! And believe it or not, that breakfast is a slimming one. Or… have pancakes, Trim Healthy ones of course (from page 223), but they’re every bit as good as the white, fattening kind. Yes, we just told you to eat carbs! Don’t leave out any food group – again, that doesn’t work long term. You crave both carbs and fat because you need them – simple as that.
The key to finding your trim for life is not mustering more self-control. Our own will power fails most of us in the end. The key is finding a slimming way of eating that you would actually prefer to eat, day after day than your old way of eating. If you start to enjoy your slimming foods so much that you feel sorry for everybody else who does not get to eat like you – that’s the recipe for life long success.
So purge no more! You don’t have to do a seven day cleanse to start 2015 and please don’t do a thirty day cleanse. Your metabolism will thank you if you take the sensible plod to goal rather than the race, crash and burn.
Sure, commit to plan, but the Trim Healthy Mama plan itself is kind and forgiving. Give the same grace to yourself with the calm assurance that this is for life, not a sprint to be endured. Yes, ditch the sugar and junk but we’ve got fantastic replacements just waiting for you to try. Yes, get moving, but that doesn’t mean you have to punish yourself in the gym. Quick effective exercise is the way we THM’s roll. If you only have time for 15 minutes three or four times a week – hey join the club. That’s about where we are.
To end this little post we’d like to leave you with some quotes from the Trim Healthy Mama book on this subject.
“Fast weight loss should never be your goal and it is definitely not what we promote.”
“Eating the S and E way is not a race to be skinny. It is a sensible way to restore food sanity back into your life and home and healthy weight will naturally develop.”
“Diets that tout ridiculously fast weight reduction tax the adrenal glands and mess with your hormones.”
“Run far away from magazine and book headlines that scream, “Six Weeks to a Bikini Ready Body!” Titles like that are the nemeses of this book.”
“We want you to be nourished, to enjoy eating as much as we do, and to watch with satisfaction as your husband and children gather around the table to a delicious, healthy meal that will build rather than destroy health.”
“You may be a mother with a lot of physical exhaustion and responsibility. We want to remind you of Isaiah 40:11, “He gently leads those that are with young.”
“We want this to be a gentle road for you. Seek a slow and steady reduction of fat.”
“Keep the overall, long term goal in mind. You are establishing healthy eating patterns now for your whole family. You are learning to include all food groups and understand the science behind how each of them impacts your body.”
Love Serene and Pearl