by Mary C. Weaver, CSCS, M.S. on January 22, 2012
It’s all the rage to speak of “clean eating.” We’ve got cookbooks, magazine series, and blogs devoted to the topic. So what could be wrong with the idea of eating clean? Plenty.
It encourages food obsession.
If some food is clean, with that word’s connotations of purity, goodness, and virtue, other food must be dirty, unclean, impure, and vile.
Is that rational talk? Does it even make sense?
No and no.
No, it’s not rational because it assigns moral virtues to food. And by extension, it encourages us to think that we are virtuous and good by eating “clean.” So if we’ve sworn we’ll eat clean and then we go out and enjoy burritos and beer (I’m assuming they qualify as dirty), doesn’t that mean we’ve fallen from grace and become unclean?
Women have enough food issues without that sort of sophistry.
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by sarah on January 21, 2012
Mary here: Let me introduce you to my friend Sarah. Sarah, meet the PrimeFit crew. Crew, meet Sarah. Sarah, take it away!
2012 is a year of change for me. I’ll be 40 in November, and I am determined to be fit. Not fitter. Fit.
I have always been an active person, but after a severe bout of postnatal depression, I lost the urge to move about and gained the urge to stuff my face with food. I was fortunate enough to be able to afford bigger clothes every few weeks-until a week after my 39th birthday, I realized I had a wardrobe full of tracksuit bottoms, and I had become, for want of a better word, a slob.
The big event.
I realized that I needed to lose 9 stone (approximately 100 pounds) to be anywhere near fighting fit, and it hurt. It hurt the kind of pain only a Krispy Kreme can cure. I have a landmark-my daughter’s 18th birthday. I want to be a UK size 12 (US 16), and I want to look good in the family photos of the big event. I don’t want to look like I do now.
Fit into forty.
I know Mary from a few places online, and we have had some incredible conversations and one of them evolved from dieting alone. I say you can diet on your own, do exercise and get fit. Mary disagrees, and all her qualifications and experience mean nothing, because let’s face it, my willpower is stronger than Mary’s expertise I have a weird sense of humour, but I am sure we’ll get used to each other.
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