As with all first Mondays of the month, yesterday was our coaching / assessment day.
And as happens every month we had a few new starters getting their heads around some of the things we’re recommending.
Because it’s a little bit different to the standard recommendations.
You know, the guidelines that have seen record levels of obesity and related diseases over the last 40 years.
As with every month, we had a few people ask “I thought too much protein / fat was bad for you?”.
It’s true.
Too much of pretty much everything is bad for you.
Too much sun can give you skin cancer (and other bad stuff).
But too little can increase the risk of various bone problems, cystic fibrosis, Crohn’s disease and so on.
Too much water will drown you.
Too little leads to dehydration and, eventually, death.
You get the point.
Too much protein or fat is bad.
But so is too little.
Both play parts in very important functions within the body.
And the levels that are considered too much (for an otherwise healthy individual) are way above what we recommend.
If you ate 10kilos of chicken a day it probably would mess up your kidneys.
Doesn’t mean eating a number of hundred grams isn’t better for you than the 50g you might get in that chicken sandwich.
Ultimately, we’ve had hundreds, if not thousands of people follow our recommendations over the years.
And we’re not aware that any of them have suffered from the problems that “too much” protein or fat would supposedly cause them.
And they’ve all got slimmer, healthier and happier.
That’ll do us 🙂
Much love,
Jon ‘Sunny D’ Hall and Matt ‘Don’t let your sun go down on me’ Nicholson
