Fitness Real Talk — reasons not to diet

Food is either celebrated or it's feared (or both - as we are nearing the holidays). 

Think of what it was like a kid. Some of my favorite memories as a kid involved food. We had birthday parties full of pizza and cake with friends. Every holiday spent with family was surrounded by yummy food like turkey, mac and cheese, stuffing and other goodies. Movie theater trips always meant a giant buttery popcorn on my lap to accompany a soda & a big bar Kit-Kat. cookies, icecream, & candy were always a treat for finishing homework....

Diets for weight loss suck. They suck a lot.. But we do them anyway, right?

We eat “bad”, we gain a little, we feel guilty, we diet, we fall off track, we eat again, we gain more, we get upset, we diet harder this time, we cleanse, we binge more, we regret more,  we eat more…  It’s a tough cycle to end. 

We just want that before & after right? And we want that “after” to finally stick!

So let’s chat about it. Here are the bad, the ugly, & the horrendous...