Quite often we will ask clients of ours to increase their daily food intake.
As you can imagine, it’s met with confusion or scepticism, which is absolutely fine.
Now, whether you track your foods via calories, portion sizes or just logging what you are eating, there’s an important message in this.
We need a basic amount of food to live well. For skin, nails and hair to grow. To keep our nutrient/vitamin levels up. Have enough energy. Provide support to organs. For our bones to stay healthy and bodies to recover.
To lose weight, then we can all agree we need to eat a little less. But what happens when we eat even less for a very long time? And we mean a long long time.
It’s been shown in studies to decrease bone density, lower vitamin levels in the body, bring on injury, fatigue, lack of iron and other vital nutrients.
Now in ladies, this can bring on or speed up a lot of other processes or play around with the female body.
So where are we going with this and what can we do?
This is not a post about eating more and not doing anything. It’s for awareness. We can restrict foods to help increase our results yes, but not long term. It catches up in some shape or form. So if you have been very restrictive for a long time, maybe it’s time for a short break food wise on being restrictive.
We’d see this usually through fatigue and low mood.
Steps going forward? 10-14 days is enough to act as a reset, to have a small break from the ‘diet’. Not dropping exercise and binge eating, just increasing amounts and giving the body a chance to breathe and recover.
This is often the reason why people will yo-yo and be on/off track. When we should be easier on ourselves and allow for a break every now and again.
Confused? Drop us a message, ask, let us know 🙂
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