Zoe Murphy - Personal Trainer at EXOFIT

Ballsbridge, Dublin 4 | Personal Training | Personal Trainer

15/02/2023

Hey everyone, I'm just looking to follow up on last months blog based on approaches to deficits when planning a 2023 fat-loss goal. As a personal trainer here at the EXOFIT personal training studio in Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, we like to try and educate our clients as much as possible and to keep an open approach to information they read up or been told around dieting.

One of the reasons why we would suggest to a client to consider a low calorie diet is because it can be seen to suppress hunger better than moderate calorie deficit diets. We always remind the client that long-term aggressive diets are not sustainable and during their diet they need to remind themselves that they know the difference between unconditional permission to eat anything and unconditional permission to eat everything. Essentially, don't label a food good or bad, offer flexibility to your approach when dieting and don't overeat on the 'good' foods. 

Flexible dieting doesn't mean eating a variety of different foods, it should mean that you don’t have to be in the same calorie deficit every day (a flexible approach to calories and not food types). You're in control of your day and  just because you are on 1,000 calories or aggressive dieting that doesn’t mean you can’t eat more or less in a day depending on the circumstances. Normal eating is when you're lonely and eat out of boredom or eat because you're stressed, etc. People create bad habits/relationship when eating a 'bad meal' when on a diet and they think all their 'hard efforts' is gone, when in reality - if you have flexibility to your diet, you don’t set an end date in mind but set goals to remain on track when 'off track'.

REMEMBER, you can choose to eat anything on a diet. But it’s the quantity of the food that dictates wether it’s align with your current goal or not.