Fat is Not Your Fault
Fat is Not Your Fault
This is the August 2010 Newsletter, enjoy!
Hi guys and welcome to a very cheery, Spring-is-in-the-air August (yes, the random rain is all a part of it!). I thought this month would be a good opportunity to talk about something that is an issue for pretty much all of us, and that is excess body fat. Even if you are one of the minority of people who have ‘skinny’ genes, you might still have excess body fat. This is the kind of fat you might have heard of as ‘skinny fat’. If you are one of the majority who doesn’t look quite so skinny you just plain out have too much of it!
We all know this, we all struggle with this. But WHY is it such a struggle?
I am here to tell you this month that having excess body fat is NOT your fault. BUT it IS your responsibility. There are so many factors in our lives that conspire to keep the kgs piling up on our tummies and thighs; it just is not your fault. But just because something is not your fault doesn’t mean you don’t need to take responsibility for it, after all, it is your body and you have to live in it!
So WHY do we have this excess body fat?
First of all there’s what and how we eat. This is a huge topic and we will talk more about it in future articles and e-mails, but the basics are:
- We have an unlimited supply of low-nutrition food, made up of cheap, bad quality, high carbohydrate ingredients.
- Our consumption of carbohydrate-rich foods has skyrocketed in the past 30 years, and we are now suffering badly for it.
- We have become carbohydrate-addicts, yip, quite literally our bodies are addicted to carbohydrates.
- We have been encouraged to have a negative relationship with our food based on guilt, not a positive one based on all the great things that food does for us.
- We have been given conflicting, confusing and down-right WRONG information about the sort of food we should eat and how we should eat it.
THAT IS TOTAL ABSOLUTE RUBBISH!
I am not going to lie to you, losing excess body fat can be a tough job and it requires commitment, time and dedication. But if you have a programme to do it right and banish the excess kgs forever, it will be a hell of a lot easier and actually quite enjoyable. It definitely is not as simple as calories-in-calories-out. So many trainers, dieticians, doctors, your mum, your teacher… will tell you that and make you feel bad for not managing to achieve this ‘simple’ thing. It’s not about calories at all! Don’t count calories! We have been told so much wrong information is can be easier just to shut off and live with the body that you have at the moment.
Third - lots of us have jobs that require us to spend a large amount of time during the day sitting. This is bad for our bodies as well as bad for our waistlines. Sometimes these inside, desk-bound jobs leave us so tired out and stressed we don’t feel like we have the time to exercise. Unfortunately this is a bit of a catch-22 situation, taking the time and effort to exercise and eat better will make you feel 100s of times better than you do right now, but you need to find the energy to take the first step!
I want you to ask yourself this: ARE YOU HAPPY WITH THE WAY YOUR BODY LOOKS RIGHT NOW?
If the answer is no, then you are cheating yourself out of what you really deserve if you give up on your goal of losing the excess fat. You CAN get the body you deserve, and that you were born to have. You CAN achieve fat-loss that will get you the body that you want and keep that body for you for the rest of your life.
I want all of us reading this email to make a commitment to ourselves and to our families to make a stand and claim our bodies back from the excess fat and the lifestyle that got us to this point. Fat is NOT your fault, but it IS your responsibility.
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