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Guest post - "Diet: Why is this Word Evil?" - female fitness model Angelique Kronebusch

Posted: 04/01/2010 at 07:54pm by Guest contributor, Angelique Kronebusch

It's the time of the year when many of us are thinking about trimming down, and many will resort to dieting in a bid to get slim. If this sounds like you, Angelique Kronebusch, a Canadian Personal Trainer and fitness model has some words of wisdom you may want to read first.

Diet: Why is this Word Evil?

When most people think of the word “diet”, they automatically think of words like “deprivation, starvation” and “anger”.

When I think of the word “diet”, I think of what I eat. I eat a healthy diet of lots of lean protein, clean carbohydrates, healthy fats, lots of vegetables and fruit. Once in a while I like to eat chocolate, pizza and ice cream. These are foods I have maybe once per week as a treat and I will never eat these foods every day, not only for fear of weight gain but I do not like how my body feels when I over indulge in high fat foods. I feel sick, sluggish, and angry about what I just did to myself. When I fill up on fruits and vegetables, I always feel great after and never sick.

A diet also means what you eat on a day to day basis. Your diet can be pizza, chips, pop, beer, cake and cookies. That is a diet, just not a healthy diet.

Diet does not have to mean depriving yourself; it should mean you are choosing “a healthy lifestyle”.  When people ask me if I am always on a diet, I like to say “my diet is eating healthy”. That’s it. It really does not have to be more complicated than that. That is how society has made the word “diet” sound like a horrible thing. People try these ridiculous fads out there like the lemon-cayenne pepper concoction, or a celebrity diet of nothing but cucumbers and tomatoes every day. Perhaps you will lose weight trying these unhealthy fads but you will also gain it back so fast, plus ruin your metabolism at the same time.

Follow this way of eating: 5 small meals per day starting right when you get up in the morning and eating every 3 hours. Do not let yourself go hungry.  Prepare your foods on Sunday like chicken and fish; put them in some portable containers in your fridge. Do not forget your healthy carbohydrates like yams, brown rice, whole wheat pasta and rolled oats. Cut up some fruit and vegetables, throw them all in some plastic baggies and there you go, you have lunch and snacks ready for you and your family. It really is not that hard to do and everyone has time to do it. Choose lean meats, eat moderate carbohydrates and low to moderate fats. Use the palm of your hand to measure your proteins and carbohydrates. Drink lots of water and choose green tea instead of sugary drinks.

Does this sound hard? Challenge yourself, choose a healthy lifestyle and stick with it. You will look and feel better and your family will appreciate it as well.
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Huge thanks to Angelique for giving us her time, following her previous post for us about how fitness changed her life!


Angelique Kronebusch

Angelique's Personal Training website

Follow Angelique on Twitter @MsFitBC now!

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