You should EAT MORE and EXERCISE LESS

(First posted on Facebook)

➡️"You should EAT MORE and EXERCISE LESS"

That is an exact phrase I use with lots of women who start with us.

They are trying to live on porridge, fruit, salads, low cal breads and wraps, pasta meals, rice meals, rice cakes

Lots of those foods that I just listed have very low nutritional values.

They are spinning 4 or 5 days a week or do a mix of classes and walking or jogging.

AND…they are getting nowhere!!!

Maybe they initially lost a couple of stone when they started but they are now stuck and many still have a few stone to go.

➡️This is because what they are doing is better than what they were doing…..but it’s not ideal.

It might have worked for them a decade or two ago, but now that they are in their 40’s or 50’s they need to approach it differently.

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Every single person that starts with us has been failing up to that point because they don’t understand nutrition.

It’s not because they aren’t exercising enough and the crazy thing is that the vast majority think that that is the reason.

?‍♀️‘Well it can’t be my diet because I eat healthily’ they say.

?I wish I had a euro for every time I heard that.

When someone says that we say….enlighten me

And I then start writing down what I know they'll say before they say it:

?️Porridge, fruit, salad, wraps some bread but trying to cut down, typical Irish dinners your meat, veg spuds and things like curry, stir fries, spag bol

Hand up if this sounds like you?‍♀️

And then they say….and this is where I fall down and they say they have a biscuit or two or a piece of chocolate in the evening.

➡️You’ve all been fooled for decades….I too was fooled.

They don’t realise that there was more sugar in their porridge than in their biscuit.
Sure how could that be they say…porridge is healthy.

Well a cup of oats has 25g of carbs (taking the fibre out) – carbs are sugar – so it has 25g of sugar.

The milk you added has 10g of carbs. Skimmed milk has the same amount of sugar as full fat.

The few berries you added or the spoon of honey has another 5g of carbs/sugar.

So that’s about 40g of sugar with your healthy breakfast.

A spoon of sugar has 5g.

So you have 8 spoons of sugar for breakfast.

A biscuit would have half that.

?Guess how many carbs in bacon and eggs – zero

Guess which has more nutrients and tonnes more of the essential macro-nutrients i.e. fats and proteins

✅Bacon and eggs

Who wins

✅Bacon and eggs

So what will I have instead?

✅Bacon and eggs

One more time let’s all say it together

✅Bacon and eggs ??