…This week, I literally had a ‘wellness coach’ tell me their credentials were, “I study diet culture every day.”
This person has 50 MILLION followers, which they accumulated showing their own fitness journey. And now, without knowledge on how to do it for other people, they sell coaching programs. And broadcast post after post of misleading and inaccurate information…even going as far to frame themselves as evidence based without ANY credentials, education, or experience.
“Self-made” “Self-Taught” = Bad News Bears for OTHER people,
orrrrr no, I'm sorry CLIENTS. Because they're taking people's money in exchange for shit advice.
SALTY AND SEETHING.
But I digress…
When you pursue these un-or-under-qualified people, and quick-fix approaches that sell you the promise-land, you do things that are not in your best interest in the long-haul, and putting your body and mental state in harms way.
When you get lost in the confusion without pursuing clarity, you glamorize people and approaches that appear to have ‘figured it all out.'
When you're desperate, you buy into the
‘I can fix all your problems’ kool-aid of non-stop dietary changes, supplement regimens, products, memberships, and exercise cycles.
When you're ignoring your brain while it's screaming at you with stress, you're undermining and silencing your wisest voice.
All that noise 👆 can really f*ck with your better judgement.
And what about the way it makes you feel every day?
•speaking to yourself harshly when you pass a mirror (or avoiding them altogether)
•'shoulding' on yourself about everything you're NOT doing
•reminding yourself 1000 times over that you ate too much
•making up your 500th excuse for skipping workouts until they die out completely
•rationalizing the $200 you spent on MLM supplements (that don't even use effective, clinical dosing in their products) as an ‘investment into your health'
•purging your diet of processed foods then falling into binge-then-restrict cycles, constantly trying to ‘make up for mistakes made.’
WHEREVER you're at is not right or wrong, good or bad.
(YOU did not start the dumpster-fire we know as the wellness industry.)
But when you feel the stress of not being where you WANT to be — who do you blame?
Do you blame the bad information?
Do you blame the bad approach?
Do you blame the normalization of disordered approaches?
Do you blame your schedule?
Your workplace?
Your kids? (America: “Not the CHILDREN!”)
Orrrrrr do you shrug off REALITY- finding that it's easier to just blame yourself?
You blame your energy levels.
You blame your lack of discipline.
You blame your laziness.
You need to ‘find your motivation, again'
“I'll get back to it, just taking a break.”
This approach is how MOST people experience ‘a healthy lifestyle.’ It's an on-again, off-again, hate/love relationship that ignites quickly and burns out fast.
(At least the 1000's of people I've worked with and the 1000's more I've talked to
over the course of my 12-professional-career-years…)
