Your body has a history. One that is important to recognize and understand. Every time you eat, you leave an imprint on your body.
Before we start this discussion, let's address one thing first: While there are standards for good nutrition that apply to almost everyone, there is no one diet that is right for everyone.
Day after day and year after year, our televisions, radios and magazines tout the next biggest and best diet to have ever existed! Let's be honest with ourselves, the concept of dieting to lose weight and get healthy has been around for as long as most of us can remember. Every year a new "miracle diet" is marketed to us in the hopes of convincing us that this will be the diet to end all diets.
Do want to know why most people fail at dieting? One simple reason:
Diets are mass marketed.
Mass marketed diets don't take into consideration the individual. They want to sell their diet to as many people as possible in the shortest amount of time as possible. Unfortunately, so many people are desperate and pressured to lose weight or look a certain way, that they ignore the need to understand themselves and how their particular body works.
Your body has a history. One that is important to recognize and understand. Every time you eat, you leave an imprint on your body.
Consider this: a 25 year-old person has eaten approximately 27,000 meals in his lifetime. That is 27,000 times to try and do the right thing provide his body with proper, effective nutrition.
Do you think the marketers in the diet industry, when they were conceiving their next latest and greatest solution to weight loss, took into consideration all the meals that every person has ever eaten and formulated the optimal solution? No, they didn't.
What you have eaten over your lifetime, the activities you have participated in, the jobs you have worked, the stress that you have experienced and your family heritage (your genes) all come together to form your unique experience of health. It only makes sense that, based on what your body has experienced, that you adopt a diet and nutrition lifestyle that meets your individual requirements. But, before you can do this, you have to take the time to get to know yourself on paper. Track how you live and how you fuel your life.
Start "connecting the dots" between bad eating and bad feelings or good eating and good feelings. Look at your weight over time, look at your history of disease, and learn what diseases you run a risk of developing. Identify possible food allergies that might be causing you to feel sick or run-down.
Once you have created a profile for yourself and understand what areas you need to improve (e.g. you are protein deficient), you can then move on to identifying or developing a diet that meets your individual nutrition needs and your physical health goals. Click here to get started.
Nutrispot was created to help you with this process. What makes us different from the diet industry? First off, we aren't associated, sponsored or owned by any diet industry company. Second, we are not telling you what to eat. We are giving you the tools to help you change, stay on track or meet your health goals through nutrition and exercise. These tools are based on the tools many personal trainers, nutritionists and dieticians give their clients everyday. All we did was automate the tools, put them up on the web and provided a way for you to reach out to a community of like-minded individuals.
How Will Nutrispot Work for You?
Everyday, you will select or add the foods you ate and the beverages you drank. At the end of the day (or week or month) a report will be produced for you that identifies your deficiencies, your successes and your distance from your physical health goal.
The Nutrispot Nutrition, Exercise and Allergy Trackers will compare what you eat to certain measures of disease, such as cholesterol levels, blood pressure, glucose levels and weight. It will correlate this data with how much exercise you record and possible food allergies you might have. Overtime, as you adopt better eating habits based on the feedback from your Nutrispot Profile, you will see changes in both your appearance and your internal health.
Once you have selected your eating lifestyle of choice, use the tracker to monitor your progress AND assess the effectiveness of your diet. For example, you may have selected a diet that allows you to lose weight, but your blood pressure and cholesterol levels are still too high. This obviously is not the right diet for you.
So, start making your health the number one priority and stop falling prey to diet industry gimmicks and marketing schemes. Start eating foods that are optimized to increase your health and decrease your weight.
Stop eating foods that make you feel sick & put your health at risk.
Get rid of the concept of "dieting" and use your own knowledge of your body and health to adopt permanent changes that create the body and the health you desire.