One of the things I hear all the time is “I don’t want to track Shaun and really not fussed about weighing out food, I don’t want to be obsessed, I’d rather do it intuitively”
Oki dokie!
I little bit about me here, I was that person, I used to say that all the time. My favourite thing to say when people asked if I was tracking was “I’m not a scientist I’m an artist!” I thought it was witty anyways. It was when I decided enough was enough and that I had to do something different to achieve what I wanted to that ditched that attitude because when I looked really hard at myself the reason I used to say those things was because if I did start tracking, if I did start weighing my food and it didn’t work what would I do then! I was a lost cause… so I reckon subconsciously I was keeping that in the tank just in case because I need to, I needed to believe that I still had an option that if all else failed me then I could ‘track’.
Well, Shauny boy, time to give it a go I thought and I reckon if you’re reading this now you’re probably in the same place. I appreciate that it genuinely isn’t for everyone and to be honest for certain people it isn’t necessary immediately, there are certain things we can look at straight of the bat but I wanted to get you thinking that if you are going to get to where you want to be at some point this is going to have to happen, after all, eating intuitively got you to where you are now.
Make small changes to your diet, instead of those 4 biscuits after dinner have 2. Try to have one slice of toast instead of 2 but what happens when you’ve done as much of that as you can do, you contact me. That’s what you get when you work with me, tailored support to guide you through a part of the health journey you may have never gone down before.
This time instead of paying your £5 a week to get weighed and asked “so, where did you go wrong” why not weigh what you’re putting into your body than have Marjorie weigh you at the local working man’s club? If we are what we eat then I would preach that you weigh your food and not yourself because when was the last time that you cried after weighing some peanut butter?