Fort Collins Fitness Trainer Discusses the High Price of Comfort Food
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Fort Collins Fitness Trainer Discusses the High Price of Comfort Food
By: Dennis Blair
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Dennis Blair is a FortCollins Weight Loss expert and is the owner of Core Fitness and Nutrition,a personal fitness training company in Fort Collins, Colorado Go here: Personal Training in FortCollins to see routines on how we help our clients lose weight and becomehealthy.
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The holidays are upon us—first Thanksgiving, then Christmas—quickly followedby New Year’s celebrations and then Valentine’s Day. Even with a steel will anda padlock on your fridge, it can be nearly impossible to walk away from theveritable onslaught of family traditions and comfort food about to reach yourstomach and derail your fitness goals. Don’t be tempted by the siren call ofhigh-salt, high-sugar treats. They do, after all, come with a high price tagattached.
A lot of my personal training clients swear that their comfort foodpreferences are regional. For instance, one of my personal training clientshails from Alabama, and she heads straight for mashed potatoes (and the sourcream, butter, and half-and-half her mother uses to make them). Another clientis from New York—food heaven for her means potato latkes and deep-fried jellydoughnuts. Finally, another client is from Wisconsin and loves cheese—and lotsof it. Other clients claim that they gravitate towards one comfort food overanother depending on their gender—i.e., women have to have their chocolate; mencan’t live without their chicken wings and dark beer.
I think foods join the comfort category whenever they:
- Fulfill an emotional need rather than a nutritional one.
- Come in large portions that leave you feeling elated one second and thenbloated the next.
- Contain a ridiculous amount of empty calories in a single serving.
- Fall into the sugary or the salty category.
- Happen to be fried, or smothered, and/or covered in cheese.
- Increase the likelihood that you’ll mindlessly munch them.
Surely, one of these categories brings a knowing nod and a sad smile to yourface. I know this because everyone has a weakness for at least one food. Andthat food is our “go-to” treat. It never lets us down, fails to show up ordisappoints. People run to their comfort food for all kinds of reasons.
- Habit (“I always eat chips when I watch my American Idol, it just wouldn’tbe the same without it.”) Interestingly, breaking the cycle is possible. Yourbody can get just as acclimated to a positive diet habit as a negative one.
- To mask/alter/avoid an uncomfortable or scary emotion. Or to celebrate apositive one. (“My boyfriend just broke up with me! Let’s eat the whole cartonof ice cream,” or “I got a new job, let’s eat that carton of ice cream!”)Either way, it’s mostly emotions (not physical hunger pains) that trigger thiskind of overindulgence or mindless raiding of the fridge. You would probably beamazed at the amount of self-medicating people do with food.
- The join-the-crowd-syndrome. (“It’s a party, after all! Everyoneelse gets cake, why can’t I have cake?”) This “might as well join them” mantrais especially rampant during the holiday season. Often, friends don’t help inmoments like these. The pressure from friends to join them can bring even thestrongest individual to their knees.
So what is it about comfort food, really? It’s because they taste so darngood right? And for those first few moments, it’s sheer joy. But what aboutafter? You feel bloated, swollen, thirsty, embarrassed, frustrated, fatigued—isit really worth it, holidays or not?
Few of us can do comfort foods in moderation. Just say no. Remember, yourfitness fate lies in your BRAIN, not your taste buds, not your past and not inthe words of friends. Don’t sabotage your fitness goals. You must have themental fortitude to not give in to the temptations of comfort foods.
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Dennis Blair is a Fort Collins Weight Lossexpert and is the owner of Core Fitness and Nutrition, a personal fitnesstraining company in Fort Collins, Colorado Go here: Personal Training in FortCollins to see routines on how we help our clients lose weight and becomehealthy.