How do you keep beer/wine/snacks in your diet and still have the body you do?
Yesterday I met up with a friend who asked me this exact question...
To him and many others, It makes no sense!
Yo-yo dieting:
A cycle of short-term changes in eating and activity. That leads to only short term benefits of weight loss or strength gains and results in landing in the same place or worse than when you started.
Have you ever experience that with your diet or your workouts?
The first experience I had with Yo-Yo'ing results, was when I first started really working out in with Jay a friend/colleague/coach in High School.
We'd meet up before lifeguarding every morning at 6am.
He was older and more experienced with workouts than I was so I would follow the routines he had in place.
And I can remember being annoyed at how much stronger he was than me.
Which of course means I pushed through the times I was at the gym with him, and then avoided certain exercises when I wasn't with him because I was embarrassed with how light the weight was that I was putting up by myself.
Doing that led him to getting stronger and me staying the same or going...
When was the last time you turned your backyard into a pirate ship sailing across the open seas, boarding unassuming ships and looting all the treasure.
Leaving only 1 to tell the tale of your legendary name?
Maybe the backyard became the Death Star with Luke, Princess Leia, and Hans Solo battling Darth Vader and the Dark side of the force in an epic light saber battle using the wiffle ball bats found in the garage.
Or perhaps you were in the basement, aka the sewers, shouting Cowabunga Dude as you scarfed down some pizza while battling the Shredder and his evil henchman, the Foot.
As kids there was no shortage of adventure to be had because our imaginations ran wild
All that was needed was a cape (bath towel), an eye patch (broken sunglasses), a sword (any long object, ie- stick, bat, etc), and your sibling or one of the kids in the neighborhood to play with.
As adults we get to go back to that state of mind once a year... Halloween!
Halloween we...
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