Flip the script.

Don’t think what is a good or bad food. Other than chewing asbestos or drinking brake fluid, most things we consume are not intrinsically bad for us.

Your body doesn’t see a burger with added cheese and a plate of chips as unhealthy, it sees it as a huge stack of macro and micronutrients. (Macronutients – Fat, Carbohydrates, Proteins. Micronutrients – vitamins, minerals, other compounds). Neither does it see an avocado and salmon salad as healthy. Again, it rapidly reduces it to things it needs and things it doesn’t.

The difference is that the burger probably contains more things that the body doesn’t need, whilst the salad probably contains more that it does.

And herein lies the crux of the matter. If you consume too much of anything, there are detrimental effects. And if you consume too little, ditto. Both lead to poor health, in different ways.

In a modern western society, for the majority of us, we are fortunate that a lack of macronutrients is not an issue. The quality of those macronutrients become a matter for debate and education, but not one for here. So, we mostly suffer from an excess, with the consequential effects of excess weight, poor health and reduced healthspan.

So flip the script. Concentrate less on what you eat, whether it is a “good or bad” food. Eat to move.

If you want to lose weight, eat a little less and move a little more.

If you want to gain weight, eat a little more and move to stimulate the body.

Simple in principle, challenging in practice.

If in doubt, or if you want a more detailed discussion, please do contact us or another qualified professional.

Make a start, the journey ends at the end, but is worth it every day.