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We have no working definition of \u201chealthy\u201d eating in this country.<\/strong><\/h4>\nTruth. Now that\u2019s sad. We have government definitions. Those have influence from trade associations and also are very one-size fits all. We have practitioners (those who currently work with others \u2013 at least two people \u2013 on their health), we have coaches, we have influencers, we have authors, and we have currently healthy people sharing their takes, tips, resources and definitions of healthy. Then we have products marketed, even named, \u201chealthy\u201d. But what we don\u2019t have is one definition of what healthy eating is today.<\/p>\n
We have many days. Hopefully, you and me, we have lots of days ahead of us<\/strong>.<\/h4>\nSo to do one thing, several times, for all those days seems daunting, even unrealistic. When we give recommendations or set goals that are unrealistic, in my opinion, we are more likely to fail. I\u2019m not sure humans versus robots are wired to do the same thing everyday.<\/p>\n
We can control a lot.<\/strong><\/h4>\nBut we can\u2019t control each day, and as such, life happens where eating healthy one day may be not just a choice to skip but a reality \u2013 like a winter storm happens, and the stores are closed except the gas station and it\u2019s out of most food. This isn\u2019t an excuse, but rather a reality. Not a frequent reality, but it busts the everyday goal.<\/p>\n
So NO you shouldn\u2019t eat healthy everyday. But what you do need to do is give your body the resources it needs to run better, more often. To do this demands that you a) Assess where you are at b) keep what\u2019s better and c) act better, not perfect, more often. That\u2019s right, move over \u201ceat healthy everyday\u201d and enter \u201cchoose your better nutrition more often.\u201d<\/p>\n
Semantics are everything. What goal are you working towards? Have you written it out? Have you said it out loud? Is it doable? Need help?<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s get better, together.<\/p>\n
Originally printed on\u00a0ashleykoffapproved.com<\/a>. Reprinted with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nAshley\u00a0Koff RD is your better health enabler. For decades, Koff has helped thousands get and keep better health by learning to make their better not perfect nutrition choices more often. A go-to nutrition expert for the country\u2019s leading doctors, media, companies and non-profit organizations, Koff regularly shares her Better Nutrition message with millions on national and local television, magazines and newspapers. Visit her website at\u00a0ashleykoffapproved.com<\/a>.\u00a0Ashley is also available for nutritional consultations<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recently I received a note from a trainer saying \u201cthings to be done EVERYDAY, eat healthy everyday\u2026\u201d. As I thought about this recommendation, I realized there are three issues it presents for almost all of us. So before I answer, let me address those: We have no working definition of \u201chealthy\u201d eating in this country. Truth. Now that\u2019s sad. We have government definitions. Those have influence from trade associations and also are very one-size fits all. We have practitioners (those who currently work with others \u2013 at least two people \u2013 on their health), we have coaches, we have influencers, we have authors, and we have currently healthy people sharing their takes, tips, resources and definitions of healthy. Then we have products marketed, even named, \u201chealthy\u201d. But what we don\u2019t have is one definition of what healthy eating is today. We have many days. Hopefully, you and me, we have lots of days ahead of us. So to do one thing, several times, for all those days seems daunting, even unrealistic. When we give recommendations or set goals that are unrealistic, in my opinion, we are more likely to fail. I\u2019m not sure humans versus robots are wired to do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":20990,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[193,139],"class_list":["post-21477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-mfn","tag-healthy-aging","tag-nutrition"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
But we can\u2019t control each day, and as such, life happens where eating healthy one day may be not just a choice to skip but a reality \u2013 like a winter storm happens, and the stores are closed except the gas station and it\u2019s out of most food. This isn\u2019t an excuse, but rather a reality. Not a frequent reality, but it busts the everyday goal.<\/p>\n
So NO you shouldn\u2019t eat healthy everyday. But what you do need to do is give your body the resources it needs to run better, more often. To do this demands that you a) Assess where you are at b) keep what\u2019s better and c) act better, not perfect, more often. That\u2019s right, move over \u201ceat healthy everyday\u201d and enter \u201cchoose your better nutrition more often.\u201d<\/p>\n
Semantics are everything. What goal are you working towards? Have you written it out? Have you said it out loud? Is it doable? Need help?<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s get better, together.<\/p>\n
Originally printed on\u00a0ashleykoffapproved.com<\/a>. Reprinted with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n Ashley\u00a0Koff RD is your better health enabler. For decades, Koff has helped thousands get and keep better health by learning to make their better not perfect nutrition choices more often. A go-to nutrition expert for the country\u2019s leading doctors, media, companies and non-profit organizations, Koff regularly shares her Better Nutrition message with millions on national and local television, magazines and newspapers. Visit her website at\u00a0ashleykoffapproved.com<\/a>.\u00a0Ashley is also available for nutritional consultations<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Recently I received a note from a trainer saying \u201cthings to be done EVERYDAY, eat healthy everyday\u2026\u201d. As I thought about this recommendation, I realized there are three issues it presents for almost all of us. So before I answer, let me address those: We have no working definition of \u201chealthy\u201d eating in this country. Truth. Now that\u2019s sad. We have government definitions. Those have influence from trade associations and also are very one-size fits all. We have practitioners (those who currently work with others \u2013 at least two people \u2013 on their health), we have coaches, we have influencers, we have authors, and we have currently healthy people sharing their takes, tips, resources and definitions of healthy. Then we have products marketed, even named, \u201chealthy\u201d. But what we don\u2019t have is one definition of what healthy eating is today. We have many days. Hopefully, you and me, we have lots of days ahead of us. So to do one thing, several times, for all those days seems daunting, even unrealistic. When we give recommendations or set goals that are unrealistic, in my opinion, we are more likely to fail. I\u2019m not sure humans versus robots are wired to do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":20990,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[193,139],"class_list":["post-21477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-mfn","tag-healthy-aging","tag-nutrition"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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