Eating Your Way Right – “Degrees of Slippage”

Thanksgiving has come and gone, how did you do? Did you take small steps toward making better decisions? Enjoy your favorite foods without going nutso?

No matter what the answer to those questions, take the time to evaluate what happened and why? If you made better choices, create that scenario next time you have a big party to plan or attend. If you didn’t do as well as you wanted, figure out what triggered the over indulgence and see what you can do next time to be just a little better.

This week marks the halfway point of our “Eat Your Way Right Through The Holidays” challenge. If you haven’t weighed in and picked up a new checklist – Now Is The Time!

A big thank-you to Dr. Amanda Hegnauer from Whole Health Concord for spending time with us last evening. She did a great job talking about supportive nutrition and gave us some great strategies for keeping our nutrition in check while still enjoying some of those favorite foods.

Thanks Dr. Amanda!

Degrees of Slippage

I read this from Strength and Conditioning Coach Alwyn Cosgrove recently, and I saw a little of myself in here.

What about you?

“We have a saying in our gym with regard to dieting that we call “degrees of slippage”.

People tend to move away from their diet plan in small degrees.

They start to slip in little degrees and never notice it.

For example, the original lunch calls for salmon and brown rice.

Client thinks turkey and rice is okay (which it is). So this becomes the new norm – the new reference point.

Now if that’s okay, then chicken and a sweet potato is also okay (true, especially when compared to the new reference point).

Then a lean piece of red meat and a small baked potato is okay (still only another small degree of difference right?)

Then lean ground beef, and a couple of small red potatoes or a whole wheat pita would be fine (guess so).

And if a pita is fine, a small roll must be fine, and the ground beef put into a patty will be fine.

So a hamburger is now the diet lunch of choice. And if a hamburger is fine, a Philly cheesesteak on a hoagie roll is fine. Etc., etc.

Now, none of those changes were all that significant, particularly when the change becomes the new “reference point”. But added up, we can see that our recommended lunch of salmon and brown rice has become a Philly cheesesteak!!”

Hmmmm….