Eat the Weak: Dieting to Win

So you are sitting there looking at the menu at a fast food restaurant and that double cheese burger with cheese, ketchup, and pickles that is oozing out of the sides is calling your name. After all you have been good this week. You have only eaten out 3 out of your 5 normal days, you deserve it.

You look back at your new diet plan and you notice the chicken, the sweet potatoes, and all those bland food staring back at you.

You have decided to go in on the cheese burger, the fries, and the frosty. Why not? Its only the fourth time this week. (Want to know just what you are eating for just the cheese burger alone check out Daves Double from Wendy's)

Right in that moment kick yourself in the head and ask yourself what are you doing?

Are the goals you have set for yourself so low that you rather have a quick satisfaction now rather than give it your all?

A common theme,as of lately, running through social media accounts, personal colleagues asking questions, and just rants have been about nutrition and eating habits .

First and foremost let me say I'm a big advocate of making small changes and eating utilizing flexible dieting habits (I highly suggest you incorporate these). Making small changes for someone that is extremely overweight (like I was) or someone just starting a fitness journey is a great way to start. So the above situation would actually work for you in the beginning.

That being said the nutrition game is a mental application. You have to literally want to succeed and eat a certain way to get results. There is no side stepping this one people. Sorry to break it to you.

Checkout Choose Myplate to brush up on just basic nutrition!

I'm not saying don't enjoy your personal favorites or eat the same thing daily, or completely just go cold turkey and cut out everything. I'm saying that if you want to see the changes that most of the fitness industry calms while doing a program you have to diet to win!

First:

Lets define diet.... a diet usually carries a negative connotation when it comes to weight loss groups and circles because it has been utilized in the terms of I must eat this to get this. In reality this is true but miss-leading, a definition by the Cambridge Online Dictionary states the following:

Diet: the food and drink usually eaten or drunk by a person or group

So in other words your diet is what you eat, so the person that eats Pizza, Beer, sodas, and Ice Cream for every meal that is their diet! (I don't recommend this at all)

When people use the term I'm dieting for something in theory its true but it gives an ultimate end goal. As to where, after a said time I can go back to eating anything I want and not have any problems.

Second:

This one is going to come across rough and probably a little harsh but again its something a lot of people fall back on. Nobody, and I mean nobody forces you to eat the cheese burger. You make a conscious decision to eat/drink everything.

Your family, friends ,loved ones, spouse, or children don't force you to eat a certain way, they have no control on your mind. You are the person behind your will, and even though there are going to be times where people look at you funny and call you strange, you are in control.

Trust me I carry around a cooler and I get more looks, questions, and stares than anyone and have even been called foolish. I smile and say thank you because I know my goals and the difference eating for performance ultimately makes.

Okay, so what is dieting to win?

Just like a workout structure that involves a number of moves, sets, and reps you utilize to change your body, eating is the same way. For you to make a healthier lifestyle change you need a game plan. A plan that is going to help you win.

Now there are a lot of plans out there, first find one that works for you!

Just because one type of system works for your buddy doesn't mean its optimum for yourself. The linked article from Health.Net outlines various diets and is long, but well worth the read.

Now that you have an idea about just what to to try, implementation is key! Load and app on your phone and track everything you eat for a week. (9/10 people will not do this and will think its not necessary)

I personally use myFitnessPal. (user name is rossmanc if you want to connect).

Now simply stick to the plan and track everything you eat for a month, a year, two years, 10. The best way to make the greatest change, a lifestyle change, is by repeating the process over and over till it takes.

If you don't like how you feel or notice that you are eating certain food items that you don't enjoy, make a small substitution for that item. For example if you are eating cream cheese switch to Plain Greek yogurt and see if it makes a difference.

Overtime with the little things you change and the constant updates in your progression you will see the changes you seek.

Now that being said its a super simple concept to start out with. Try it and see if it works for you.

If you are still struggling for motivation to stay on your diet or new plan try taking a similar mental aspect you take to the gym. Eat your weakness and ultimately put your back against a wall.

Tell yourself something horrible will happen if you don't do it, like if I don't stick to my plan then I'll lose the life I love, the love of my life, my kids, house, money, etc.

Its extreme but ask yourself this, if something you truly loved was threatened wouldn't you give your all to do everything in your power to mitigate the threat?

Is your life, your health, and the lives of the people you truly care about not worth the fight to make the change that could save your life?

Another good way is to say you are trying to lose weight for a particular event (this is awesome by the way). Take it a step further.

If I don't lose weight for X event then, I wont be around to play football with my grand kids, my kids, my spouse. Whatever you do, eat your weakness and set a plan to win. Fear can be a powerful motivator in the darkest of times.

I personally eat a certain way to obtain the goals I set out to achieve. With this being said my personal take on the types of food I eat are all based off my own free will to obtain a goal that none of you truly know about.

All in all eat what you want, but when it comes to food you have the hand you feed yourself with. So if you want that physical change, lifestyle change, or mental change start by setting up a plan to win, ask someone that knows the topic better than you and improve yourself.

You've seen me make changes through my pictures, you ask how I do it, simply I diet to win everyday of my life. I tweak recipes (checkout the recipe corner for ideas), I have a plan just like my workouts.

This plan constantly evolves with my mentality, training, ideas, business plans, with my whole life. This is just another key to what I use in my everyday life to push the envelope of my very being, the plan, or the pulse of everything I do steams from simple ideas that help me win!

So If you are seeking help ask, if you are struggling to understand something ask, the only way that we truly live life is to eat your weakness and plan to win. Together we can all grow and help each other figure these simple things out so we all take a step forward rather than backward. Dieting to win is just a simple tool to get you from one place to another but this tool could be the one that allows you to take control and forge your forever.

-The Iron Pulse Beats Within You

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