A Very Unscientific (But Really Cool) Research Study

What is the very first thing that comes to your mind when you think about losing weight? I asked Get Fit NH Epsom to shout out their answer to that very question and this is the list they came up with:

• Diet

• Exercise

• Deprivation

• Food

• Calories

• Journaling

• Maintain

• Pain

• Candy

• Hungry

• Starvation

• Will Power

• Looking good

• Counting Calories

• Beer

• Binging

• Sacrifice

• Work

• Guilty                                                                                                                

• Water

• Eat

• Pizza

• Water

• Ice Cream

• Reducing Food

• Sleep

• Weight Lifting

• No Social Life

• Celery

• Planning

• Attitude

• Eating

• Starving

• Calories

• Hard

• Deprivation

• Long Lasting

• Feeling Better

• Not Eating What I Want

• Depressed

• Impossible!

Extensive huh? Did you relate to one or more of those items? As we reviewed the list, we saw many of these words were food or had to do with food. The remainder of the list was mostly negative thinking. I'd like to change your mind, and that is what S3 is all about. S3 is centered around habits that will result in each of us eating healthy throughout the day - the side benefit is often weight loss. And here's the rub. I don't want you to think of weight loss as a negative process. However it

is

a process and it

can

be enjoyable. Eating food for your health does not have to mean you are miserable only eating celery, counting each small calorie as it enters your mouth, and never being able to enjoy your friends or going out socially again. It is not impossible! Interesting enough is the first list but when I asked what is the first thing you DO when you want to lose weight, the list went like this.

• Run

• jogging

• exercise more

• water

• plan meals

• and not much else?

Do you see the disconnect? We

know

to lose weight it revolves highly around the foods we put in our bodies, but when we want to

do

something about weight loss we try to figure out how to do it without changing all that much in that area. HMMMM...... Training at Get Fit NH provides you with a your movement component. Training hard at Get Fit NH and then applying the nutrition habits of S3 will be two wheels of the same bike that will propel you forward. You can't out train poor nutrition - time to stop trying, Coach Nancy