Last night my date and I went out to dinner. We had a nice meal at the Winter Inn in Greenville, MI. This was our first time there. It was an interesting atmosphere keeping in mind the place was built in 1902.
Not to mention in my opinion it could be haunted. 
After our dinner was done we are talking and I was expecting our waitress to bring us the check. But instead our waitress comes out to greet us with not a check but a dessert plate with 4 types of desserts. She doesn’t come out and ask “are you guys interested in dessert?” Or after asking us if we wanted dessert and we said yes then she could have brought out the plate. She just comes out and shoves it in our face like “here do guys like temptation?” Was I tempted? Never… dessert has never been my thing and I had a nice sweet potato and chicken breast for dinner and was perfectly satisifed.
Did I buy my date want dessert? Thats really not important is it? What is important is that unhealthy food is being pushed on us everyday and the person doing it doesn’t think twice.
It could be a waitress who has no concern maybe someone at the table is trying to eat healthy and make better choices. She just wants a bigger tip….(she didn’t get one).
It doesnt matter if its a owner of a fast food chain who doesn’t care that he/she is tempting people through advertisment and serving unheathly food to billions of people worldwide.
Watching the Texas and Oklahoma football game and seeing that 98% of the food available to buy at the stadium is deep fried and has no nutritional value.
Yes, I agree no one is making us eat this food, junk food doesn’t tempt me. But I know for billions of others it does..and ITS EVERYWHERE! Sometimes its the only choice!
I predict soon obesity will be the #1 death in the United States.
Does this bother you?
It should……..
Your Fitness and Nutrition Coach
~David Modderman
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I have worked with a lot of clients over the years and have discussed nutrition with almost all of them. I have never ate perfect all my life infact I don’t eat perfect now and never claimed to. But I still feel its my responsibility as a Fitness and Nutrition Coach to educate people on what is a healthy food choice for them and their family and what is not.
That brings us to peanut butter. Most people love peanut butter and you grew up with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches as a kid and still love them today as an adult. But the questions I always ask my clients and others during my supermarket tours is what kind of peanut butter do you buy?
An the answer that comes back 90% of the time is JIF!
JIF peanut butter, looking back that’s what I had as a kid. I don’t think my mom new better. But I do now.
Here is the JIF peanut butter ingredients:
MADE FROM ROASTED PEANUTS AND SUGAR. CONTAINS 2 PERCENT OR LESS OF: MOLASSES, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OIL (SOYBEAN), FULLY HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OILS (RAPESEED AND SOYBEAN), MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES AND SALT.
What it is partially and fully hydrogenated vegetable oils? It’s a long ingredient name for trans fat! The #1 cause for heart disease in America. It is in JIF and thousands of foods in America.
But David……”JIF it tastes so good” yeah with sugar and transfat mixed in together something tastes so good…is making your health so bad!
Do you know reduced fat JIF is worse than regular JIF? How? JIF peanut butter and most peanut butters have some healthy fats (peanut oil) mixed in with the bad fats (trans fat). Reduced fat JIF Peanut butter actually removes the good fats from the peanut butter to reduce the fat but then leaves the trans fat in. Shocking? I say so.
So what would be a better choice “Natural Peanut butter.” Here is the ingrediants of most natural peanut butters.
INGREDIANTS: Peanuts
Wow! Do you see the difference?
Your Fitness and Nutrition Coach,
~David Modderman
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Are you a victim of the all or nothing bug?
I used to be in so many parts of my life. As a perfectionist this can happen far too often with too many people.
I remember thinking to myself over and over “well if i can’t do it this way then I might as well not do it at all!”
Is this a good attitude? Looking back I say no it wasn’t.
Do you use the all or nothing approach when trying to exercise and eat healthy?
Many do….
I remember running into a former client at the gym. We had worked together for like 6 months and we had got him in tip top shape. When I saw him for the first time in like 3 months I could tell he had let himself go a little bit. I said “hey haven’t seen you in here in sometime”. He went on to tell me he was working out six days a week and then got real busy at work and got out of the routine and just stopped coming completely. Wow! 6 days a week down to nothing! What was he thinking? Don’t you think he could have managed 2-3 days a week just to maintain his routine? After I mentioned this exact thing to him he looked at me funny and said “wow…I should have done that….3 days a week would have been something.”
That is the all or nothing bug if I have ever saw it….
People on diets do it everyday..”well I just ate a large piece of cheesecake, I guess I am off my diet”
Do you really have to be? No!
How about making the next meal better or the next day better. It doesn’t have to be all or nothing..it should always be at least something…making the effort consistently but not trying to be perfect everyday.
Don’t let the all or nothing bug get you!
Your Fitness and Nutrition Coach,
~David Modderman
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