More is Not Always Better
This is something I’ve talked about before when it comes to weight loss (fat loss), but I believe the biggest mistake in the “mindset” of people today is thinking that enough exercise can get them the weight loss they want and should be their “top” priority.
I was reminded of this recently by a person I see in the gym who is doing at least 2+ hours of daily cardio and some weights. He is in there 4-5x a week and I kid you not, brings food to the gym to snack on while he works out. I’ve consulted with him in the past and told him that he needed to focus less on working out and more on eating correctly, yet his response was “Oh…I can’t do that, I like to eat too much…so I need to workout instead”.
Wrong……wrong….wrong. Sadly he never lost much weight (and months later even looked like he gained more around his stomach).
So instead of thinking the answer was in his eating, he is brainwashed by some mainstream myth about exercise can cure everything. If people want lasting changes in their health and weight loss, they need to start with the most important muscle…..the brain. People need to understand that exercise is NOT the cure all for losing weight WHEN nutrition is neglected. The fact that most advice you hear is “exercise more” is just not helping to get the right mindset when most probably need to be hearing “eat less” or “eat more real foods”.
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