“Sundays are for Carbs, Cuddles & Cheat Meals”
Or are they??
One of my clients messaged me the other day asking if he could have a cheat meal, he said he’d worked really hard, been really strict with himself and deserved it.
This chap is working with me to lose some body fat so I wanted to know first of all why he thought he needed a cheat meal. I reckon he’d been way too strict with himself and was at breaking point. I pulled him up straight away and asked why on earth he’d let himself get here. He told me that he thoughts what dieting was, starve myself and then reward later.
Hell no! That’s why most diets fail, had he spoken to me at the beginning of the week my advice would have been to pull the calories back ever so slightly over the week and then enjoy whatever it was that he wanted to go have. He was absolutely right he did deserve a reward, guy had smashed it but not like that. He’d wound himself up so tightly that the thought of having a Nandos was taboo so we had another chat about how so long as he doesn’t exceed his weekly allowance of calories and maintains his protein intake per day he could go get that butterfly chicken with peri peri chips (I’ve made myself hungry now) and not feel any guilt or that he’d cheated at all!
So, if you’re wondering about having to give up your favourite foods by working with me, think again! I firmly believe in the individual approach, no one person is the same and treat them as such will only mean it won’t work for them. We’ll make it so you’re living your best life, enjoying food and not feeling as though you’ve sinned, “gone wrong” or cheated anything.