Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth

[drcanadianninja]

Hello, just popping in for another moment to share a few tips I personally find really helpful. Edit: quietrhythm has dispensed a few pearls of wisdom that I feel need to be added.

1) Don't freak out if you put on weight. A lot of the intro posts I read are about losing weight. This is fine. The main thing I want to drive home here is the fact that doing

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[quietrhythm]

As a Personal Trainer, I have to disagree with you on point number 4 and add some things to point number too.

Never ever say your on a diet. That four letter word is evil and 95% of people who are on a diet fail. Instead, just improve eating habits, like you mentioned dont drink 5 cans of coke after working out. In fact if you can avoid pop altogether thats great since pop has so much sugar. Sugar often gets stored as fat. If you have a sweet tooth, replace candy with fruits. Fruits have natural sugars in them and will curb any sweet tooth. I nibble on strawberries when Im craving sweets. Forget the word diet! Just say 'Im eating healthier' Or making healthier choices.

If you break your routine, it doesnt not take your body 4x as long to get back to it. Even if your just eating well and not exercising, fruits and veggies actually raise your metabolism, which helps you burn fat.
The body is pretty adaptable. If you stop exercising and then 2 weeks later get back into routine, your body will not only welcome the exercise but your muscles will be working at nearly the same muscle intensity they were previously. However, the cardiovascular system on the other hand, can take about a week before it was on the level it was before you stopped your routine.
If you stop your routine for a week, it'll take a week to get back to where you were, not a month.

Dont want to come off as a bitch or what not, but considering my job, its very important for me that my clients and anyone else for that matter has accurate information to help them reach their goals.

[screwdestiny]

Totally agree with the "diet" thing. I make the mistake of telling people I'm going on a diet, when really, I'm just deciding to not eat a whole pack of Ritz crackers in one sitting and try to get more veggies in. :-P Diets are so bad because they're things that you're supposed to stop after a while. But eating well is a lifestyle change, something you need to keep up for as long as you want to be healthy, not something you have to do for three months until the pounds come off, and then stop.

However, to be fair, I think that the poster may have been using the word diet in the since that you and I are saying, not necessarily "go on Weight Watchers/Atkins/South Beach."

[quietrhythm]

Exactly, when you go off your 'diet' most people actually gain every pound they lost back.

[fitney]

When the original poster said "diet," I interpreted it as describing how one eats, as opposed to a temporary restriction on eating. When someone refers to his or her diet, they may be referring to their eating patterns, and dictionaries back that up.

If your point is just that some people misinterpret the word and overly restrict only to binge later, then maybe not using the word at all is a good plan, but I think the original poster was talking more about a lifestyle change than a quick fix. ^_^

[koemiko]

The body is adaptable, but given the rest of the paragraph on #4, I got the impression it was more mental than than physical...

For some people, it's a lot harder to keep yourself working out if you don't have a routine, or if you've broken your routine.

But you probably already knew this. :)

[drcanadianninja]

The healthy bit is actually some good advice that I feel needs to be edited into that post. It's one of the main troubles I have, guaranteed.

koemiko covered that better than I did; I meant it more as a mental level than a physical level. The body adapts quite well, as you've said, but it's more the inherent sort of breaking your routine and eventually getting set in a different routine of staying out of your original routine. I, as well as many others, have gone down this path of 'maybe next week.'

And you didn't come off as a bitch. Being bitchy involves insults. From what I can see, it was simply a case of misunderstanding.