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Are Cupcakes Fattening?
Last night, in my Nutrition for Life course, I was extolling the virtues of almonds as a source of artery-friendly oils and essential nutrients. One woman cried out, “Aren’t they fattening?” This was the first word that was taught to me when I was learning how to speak — fattening. It was the number one enemy for those of us who spent most of our years dieting. She is correct. Almonds are fattening. If you eat the whole bag of them! There are many foods, like almonds, that we think are bad for us because our mother’s taught us that they were fattening.
As a health and nutrition coach (with a specialty in weight loss and weight management), I would like to put this word in its proper perspective. If your goal is to optimize your health, maintain a healthy weight, feel better, look better, have more energy and perhaps have a shot at resisting disease, coming to terms with this word will be to your benefit. How about foods that contain a tremendous amount of good-for-you components? When taken in moderation, the health benefits outweigh any concern about these foods making you fat. For example:
There are certain foods that contain more calories and fat than other foods. If you eat ice cream by the pint on a daily basis, you might not like the size of your waist after a week of this . However, the only time ice cream is “fattening” is when you eat too much of it, at the wrong times, and under the wrong circumstances. Would you like to know how to eat ice cream and not get fat?
The problem with the word “fattening” is that it requires a context to have any meaning. Food does not make us fat. What makes us fat is what we choose to eat, when we choose to eat it, how much we choose to eat it, and how often we choose to eat it. For example, instead of saying that cupcakes are fattening, how about if we reclaim our control over what we eat? This means putting ourselves in charge, rather then giving power to food over us. The whole idea that food makes us anything, to me, gives way too much power to those items. In fact, you can eat a cupcake and maintain a slender, energetic body. You just have to know when, where, and how to eat it.
There is a category of food called the “deadly whites”. This means food that is loaded with calories and void of nutrition. It is inferior fuel for sustained energy and inadequate for providing nourishment to our cells. Food like pancakes, bread, cookies, cake, candy, rice, tortillas, pasta that are prepared with processed flour and loaded with sugar do not a sound approach to optimal health make. Therefore, if you want to feel and look your best, by extension, you would not select these foods to sustain you. You wouldn’t put soda pop in your car for fuel. Why would you put it in your body?
Here is the good news. There are specific strategies you can employ for enjoying these unhealthy foods on occasion.
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You don’t have to be perfect to get great results. Focus on doing your best and make peace with your results. If you beat yourself up it is much more difficult to make choices that honor you and your body.Move toward your goals rather focusing on your mistake. There is nothing that you cannot eat a and there is nothing that you must do. However, when you get clear on the benefits to you of making pro-health choices, so much of the effort and struggle can drop away. This can be much easier than you ever imagined.
Years ago, I lived with a serious carbohydrate addiction. Dieting and deprivation never worked. I was obsessed with food and felt trapped. I learned that the pathway to optimal health and my ideal weight was about making better choices. I learned to move toward how I wanted to feel and look. I have not dieted in over fifteen years. I learned how to befriend food and honor my body by my pro-health choices. I am younger and more energetic today than I was twelve years ago. I never dreamed I could feel this relaxed and at peace around food and my body. Now you know why I do this work and why I feel like I was put on this earth to help others.
Rosie Bank