When are you NOT dieting?

[deltreefitness]

When I decided to transform my body I made a commitment. I look at keeping in shape and "looking good" as a change in lifestyle. Do you think it's safe to say that anyone who takes interest in their health (or at least in the appearance of their body) on a "diet" year round? I think "dieting" has a stigma attached to it. This is probably because a large amount of people associate the word diet with deprivation. I'd appreciate your comments.

 

[Grebe22]

That's what I tell people. They see me choose a healthy food item versus cake or pizza and ask if I'm on some kind of diet. I respond by saying, yes I am, but everyone is on a diet. Mine is just a healthy diet, while their diet consists of crap. The word diet does have the stigma attached to it that makes people think of an overweight person trying to lose weight by eating less. I eat more frequently than 90% of the people at work, but I eat turkey, almonds, steel cut oats, and chicken salads, while they go for Krispy Kremes, Dairy Queen, popcorn, and candy bars.

 

[figure8]

I totaly agree! People who are truly serious about their workouts and being in shape have made a lifestyle change. Its not a fad its a lifestyle. (With the exception of dieting for a show.) I just feel better eating this way. If I feel like having a treat I will. Some people eat like that all the time though I couldnt imagine!

 

[deltreefitness]

That's what I tell people. They see me choose a healthy food item versus cake or pizza and ask if I'm on some kind of diet. I respond by saying, yes I am, but everyone is on a diet. Mine is just a healthy diet, while their diet consists of crap. The word diet does have the stigma attached to it that makes people think of an overweight person trying to lose weight by eating less. I eat more frequently than 90% of the people at work, but I eat turkey, almonds, steel cut oats, and chicken salads, while they go for Krispy Kremes, Dairy Queen, popcorn, and candy bars.

Thanks fot the responses! I get the same sort of "are you one a diet?" questions all the time. They usually with a quick "Why, you look fine!" and all I can really respond with is that it's largely in part of my "diet".

 

[The_first_athlete]

Re: when the term 'diet' ceases to exists

That's what I tell people. They see me choose a healthy food item versus cake or pizza and ask if I'm on some kind of diet. I respond by saying, yes I am, but everyone is on a diet. Mine is just a healthy diet, while their diet consists of crap. The word diet does have the stigma attached to it that makes people think of an overweight person trying to lose weight by eating less. I eat more frequently than 90% of the people at work, but I eat turkey, almonds, steel cut oats, and chicken salads, while they go for Krispy Kremes, Dairy Queen, popcorn, and candy bars.

Theres a point that we all 'diet' thru our month or year. And theres even atleast 2 subdivisions of healthy eating. 3)Then theres those who will not pay too much attention to their intake. But I would like to add the final category 4), theres those that slob out allowing themselves toget to the point so that it ceases to be a diet and their lifestyle and body composition takes on a meaning from galaxies light years away impossible to decipher into human dialect or deffinition

(This excludes the genetically challenged)