I broke my ring!
I was talking about food tracking for weight loss …
When I smack my hands down excitedly. I hear a crunching sound. Crestfallen, I see the remnants of my ring.
Pieces lay broken in my palm. I honestly get upset. I go through a lil’ emotional calming sequence you’ll definitely want to watch if you struggle at all with emotional eating.
You can watch all this at minute 18 onwards.
Food tracker for weight loss?
At first I was talking about food tracking for weight loss with my aunt on facebook.
It was a pretty in-depth conversation. She’s down in LA, and I’m up here in San Jose. So we did our best over Facebook commenting …
She had some strong thoughts about Weight Watchers…
She and her Mom have both seen long-term weight loss results following Weight Watchers.
So she got a lil’ upset at my position that Weight Watchers was a diet.
If you want to see our full conversation, you can click on the facebook pic below, which will take you so that you can view our conversation.
If you want to simply read the gist of what we talked about, as well as my position on food tracking, just keep reading or listening to the podcast/videos on the other blog posts!
The pic happens to be about my workshop, which probably will have already happened by the time you read this!
Is Weight Watchers a Diet?
By my definition yes.
Why?
Because you track your points in Weight Watchers.
To me, and this is where my aunt got upset – this is a diet.
Why?
Because monkeys don’t track their food.
This might sound silly, but it’s soooooo important.
Tracking calories or points is a logical, left brain behavior.
And we didn’t evolve our left brains until relatively recently.
This means our right brains, our emotional selves are much more important for eating the right amount of food!
Tracking is Unnatural – that’s why you probably can’t stick with it
So I tell my aunt – “great!”
“You’re one of the few people who can stick with tracking long term!”
And seriously, that’s impressive.
Sticking with tracking long term.
I mean, have you ever tried tracking your food?
It works …
But it’s hella boring!!!
This article here, by Wellseek, spells out exactly what I mean.
Yes, science backs food journaling
So yes. This is one of the rare times you’ll see me going against the broader mainstream of science.
Because science does show that food tracking works.
The problem is, most of these studies are only measured for 1 year.
So you could track food for 1 year and the study will show, correctly, that you lose weight via food journaling.
But let’s say you stop food journaling after 1 year.
The weight comes back.
The study would not count that because it’s after 1 year.
And that’s why food journaling is *probably* not the solution for you.
I say *probably* because you might be like my aunt who can food journal for years on end.
And if that’s you, great!
If not …
Well, don’t feel bad. I have a lot of thoughts about perfectionism … you can listen to the podcast on perfectionism here.
I don’t think most people can stick with food journaling long term either.
That’s why I’ve designed a training to spark some new thoughts in your mind!
No comments:
Post a Comment