Recently, I had the opportunity to sit in a workshop with Autumn Calabrese presenting...
Now, if you don't know who Autumn is, she's the most recent celebrity trainer added to the Beachbody line up of trainers you can have come to your living room to teach you how to work your body. (Okay, so maybe they're not technically IN your living room, but popping in that DVD sure makes it feel that way some days)! Autumn created the 'change your plate' portion control system, which has now been converted into Beachbody's 21 Day Fix container portion control system.
Anyway, Autumn shared a story about a friend that she was training that was doing 'everything' right, but was not getting the results she was hoping for. Here's the "Salad Story" in Autumn's own words:
"I'd been training somebody for, almost a year I think I'd been working with her. Over the time, she'd become one of my best friends. So, I was very aware of what her habits were, I literally spent time with her everyday and saw what she was doing, and we'd work out together. Take what you do for your workouts in the 21 Day Fix, and multiply that by ten, for an hour... these are the type of workouts she and I were doing! (21 Day Fix workouts are 30 minutes long). She could NOT loose weight! She'd go up five pounds, then down five pounds, then back up five pounds, and it was just all over the place. I just thought, I don't get it, what are you doing... go get your thyroid checked because something has got to be wrong. I knew the science behind what I was seeing was not making sense. Then she'd go down her list of food, what she was eating, and I was thinking, 'Uh... you know, I mean, it's not perfect, but it's not so far off that we shouldn't be seeing results.' Then one day we worked out at a gym together, then went to a restaurant called California Chicken Cafe, which is a fairly healthy place to eat. We got salads, and the plates were huge. I ate a third of mine, and she ate the entire salad. I mean, it's lettuce and chicken, and there's broccoli and a little bit of pasta in there, but it is huge! As I was sitting there watching her finish the salad - granted she did just get her butt kicked in a workout - I realized that was her problem, so I looked at her and told her. She looked back and said, "What, but I am eating a salad." while I thought, "No, you ate four salads!"
In California, we have calorie count on our menus, so we grabbed the menu and looked at that salad... 1700 PLUS calories in the whole salad! It's a SALAD, and that's without the dressing! She had eaten her whole days' worth of calories in one meal, and I know she'd had breakfast and was going to go out for dinner that night.
The point is, as I look at how food is advertised, we have everything super-sized, and when you walk through the grocery store, it's all family sized, but when you think about it, your stomach is as big as your fist. Even when you are eating the healthy stuff, if you eat that much, your stomach has to stretch in order to accommodate for all that food. Once you have stretched yourself out, you have to keep eating more just to keep yourself feeling full. So, now, even with the good stuff, you have stretched it out, and therein lies the problem that so many people have!"
So... what do you think of that story? Are you eating healthy foods but not seeing results? Could it be that your portions are too big? If this is something you struggle with, I'd love to help you out with it! I coach people through programs to help get over hurtles like this all the time! (In fact, I have been there myself, so I know how it feels)!
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