But there’s protein right?
Generally speaking, I’m not fond of kitchy, glib sayings. Our Warm-up Is Your Workout. Good gawd, can you get any more douche? Did you know people actually wear t-shirts that say this? Srsly? Srsly. Jesus is the reason for the season, shut up. Christmas means different things to different people and putting a glib slogan to it is stupid. You’re just really not very clever. Dr. Seuss was clever, he rhymed with style..and characters that probably took an acid trip to create. Good on ‘im.
But I got to thinking the other day, if I WERE to create a stupid slogan, it would be Your good is our crappy. Yup. To all those people (like, 90% of non-training people I know), when you say you’re eating “good” it’s actually so crappy that even on a cheat day (which I don’t believe in doing), we still wouldn’t touch it. Sometimes “good” just means that your food only came from a drive-thru window half of the week instead of all of the week (I once had a client who had talked herself into that. That she only bought one drive-thru meal where she usually buys and eats two. Srsly.) Sometimes “good” means that only one row of frozen thin mints were eaten instead of the whole box. (Don’t freeze your thin mints? My god what’s wrong with you. That is all kinds of delicious!)
“Good” is subjective. Meaning, if eating garbage all day, day in and day out, is normal to you then that one piece of real food you’re consuming doesn’t mean you’re having a “good” day, it means your diet is a chemical shit storm and the forecast is most likely more shit and that 1 ounce of real chicken isn’t going to make any kind of dent YO. Yuck.
This also applies to feeling “good.” Feeling ‘not sick’ is actually not the same as feeling “good.” Feeling strong with a headache is not the same as feeling weak with a headache. Strong allows you to cope and walk through life with less than ideal efficiency than a weaker, untrained person. This carries over to organs, connective tissue, etc. If you are putting demands on your body that your lack of muscular strength cannot support, your connective tissue is at risk. Duh. But we don’t think about that. We just think think about keeping our bodies as strong as possible as a whole through training and food and letting them do their thing.
In almost all cases, strong will function far better than weak. Even in disease. But where the only “disease” suffered is weakness and crappy food, ya, your best is our crappy.
Yuck.
Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu, or any other theology, learn to be a human first.
Shannon L. Alder
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