When you sit back and look at your day the hours buying, preparing, swallowing, appreciating and excreting food soon mount up. The mountain of information on what you should be chewing has erupted in the last few years often with conflicting data and mind boggling claims. The flow of new studies, macro nutrients, eating patterns, some new green thing just keeps pouring down the mountain gathering pace as we fuel the flood with our hard earned currency. Should it really be this confusing?
“Yes” because we are all uniquely different and “No” because we pretty much need the same stuff (a bit of a wishy washy Indian head wobble answer, I know). Our individualism often makes the topic of nutrition a little tricky as we all metabolise food differently, our gut bacteria is insanely diverse and we have this crazy complex hormone system that changes over time. Unfortunately, there is no “one shoe fits all” pill out there so it makes sense not to swallow everything you hear and read.
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At the risk of sounding like a broken record there is NO blueprint so putting in the time to understand yourself physically and mentally is time well spent. Your body-type, emotional well being, physical and social lifestyle all play a role in how the nutrient river flows. Your eating habits have to evolve as you do or you could find yourself down shits creek without a paddle or a life vest and firing that emergency flare off for the pharmaceutical industry to see.
An insecure society will always consume more than it needs to and unfortunately the majority of people seem to be emotionally attached to their food. Eating to make us happy or because we are sad, eating because of a hard day at work or to social media brag, eating to be part of a group or to fit into a pretentious fad. Enjoying food is a huge part of modern day living but we should all be mindful of the role of food, is to fuel your lifestyle and not to rule your lifestyle.
January is the month we normally pack up the crisps and chocolates,bag yourselves a diet and a gym plan and arm yourself with that “go hard or go home” attitude. Sick of the diet before Feb, bored of the gym before the diet and you know what??? you fucking like chocolate and I read somewhere it’s good for you. January should be less about redemption of December’s over indulgences and more about lifestyle reflections.
Dieting is a shortcut to a perpetual merry-go-round of highs and lo’s and ultimately keeps you from putting in the miles by handing you a pair of flip-flops rather than walking boots to start your journey. Adapting your lifestyle to find your optimum is a responsibility you owe yourself. The potato diet, juice diet, drinking your own urine diet are concepts that have no longevity to them and energy is better spent understanding your body type, foods that compliment you, foods to avoid and patterns of eating that will bring about the best bang for your buck.
Your body is the only thing you and you alone will ever own, everything else is just on lease. Its uniqueness is an imprint of your complete family history and there are no replications. To get the best from you, your diet and lifestyle must also be as unique otherwise you will always be a piss poor version of who you could have been.
In the coming months, we will be delving into a whole host of little hacks that might or might not help you begin your journey but until then back away from the packet of chocolate chip cookies and get yourself a bag of kale!!! Eat more, eat less, eat the rainbow but most importantly eat nutrient intense.
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