Intuitive eating. It’s a trendy phrase being tossed around these days. “Eat what your body tells you to! Listen to your body!” is “the wave” as my girlfriend says. It sounds nice at first, even budges you in a direction that appears fair & logical. Until reality hits.
Let me put it in this manner — if I would’ve eaten based on how I felt, when I was 390 pounds, this blog would’nt be here. Ron Gunz would not exist at all. I would’ve eaten myself into 400-500 pounds, type 2 diabetes, a clogged artery or a simple heart attack, thus my parents burying another child whose time came before it should have.
I get it — the body acceptance/fat acceptance movement want people to feel loved & appreciated by those around them but they are building that ambition on the premise of unhealthy behavior. Doctors, alleged fitness “professionals” & even psychologists are further enabling this. They aren’t considering the fact that the average adult, let alone children, are creatures of habit & do not practice mindfulness, intelligence or logic when it comes to diet. Most people don’t have the slightest idea of Basal/Resting Metabolic Rate and how that plays a factor into their health goals. Even something spoonfed to the public with ease these days, such as Macros, are something the general public do not seem to properly grasp unless coupled w/a personal trainer, a dietician or nutritionist who aren’t bought by various industry lobbyists.
I’m going to be blunt and extremely honest here — the biggest pet peeve of mine is a personal trainer who eats crap all the time, with an externally healthy body, telling their morbid obese client to “eat healthy”. The principle of leading by example is being abandoned. More often than not, that trainer that “gets away” w/eating so much biological feces, when they get older, will have medical bills come to haunt them. It gets worse when you watch them speaking all this health & fitness stuff, while getting wasted or smoked out of their minds over the weekend, some of which I’ve heard them openly admit that they have cut years off their life with what they did.
We need to Make People Great Again by looking at their eating habits & how it stimulates or barricades them when it comes to activity & productivity. We need to embrace the adding of biological value in our lives through eating foods that enhance our gut health, that provide vitamins & minerals that optimize our immune systems & movement. Restore intake that isn’t further taxing our arteries w/dietary cholesterol that, quite frankly, not necessary, particularly those whom have total cholesterol levels at 200 or higher. Let’s get to understanding that Fats, when poly/monounsaturated, are good for you & that it’s Saturated/Trans Fat that will come to claim you in the long run. Let’s embrace the fact that Carbs, when consumed from sources nature provides that are rich w/fibers, macro/micronutrients & proteins, will bless your muscular function & performance. Let’s embrace the use of dietary protein w/more priority directed after your long days of work/workouts or during your breaks between sessions of labor instead of just gushing it down first thing before stepping outside. Let’s also start engaging the reality that for most of us, we have no business being at a gym 2-3 hours/day, 5x/week if our programs are designed around our lifestyles & our daily eating is abundant in nutrients that help your body glow w/vitality.
