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Carbohydrates are always a hot topic. There are a lot of misconceptions but there is a lot of truth behind what you hear. Before I start this topic, I want to share my standpoint. As with all of my content, carbs need to be individualized. With that being said, I personally believe in a moderate approach for most people. I don’t believe people with average energy expenditures (fast paced, normal lifestyles) need an extremely high carbohydrate diet. Furthermore, I don’t believe in completely removing or demonizing this particular macronutrient. With most controversial topics (religion, politics) you only hear one side. I want to pose both sides of the carb battle and talk about why individualization is the answer.
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This is something that a lot of people (including myself from time to time) misunderstand. Just because you know what to do doesn’t mean you will inherently do it. There clearly is a gap between knowledge and action. You can have all the knowledge in the world but if you can’t apply it then it is useless. During this blog, I want to discuss the gap between education and action. In my humble opinion, there needs to be a transformation of the heart and mind before you can manipulate behavior.
I think this is why so many of us are inconsistent. We tend to hyper focus on changing the behavior instead of changing our perspective. I was listening to one of my favorite financial advisers the other day (a la Dave Ramsey) and he said something that struck me. He was talking about his experience in dealing with people trying to create financial peace in their lives. He’s been helping people for a long long time and has had 5 million people go through his program. First off, when you have a sample size of 5 million that should indicate some validity. He began talking about patterns that he has seen in people over the last ten years, which in hindsight indicated they were to be successful in the area of money. In addition to creating a handwritten budget each month, the common pattern was the anger/passion they seemed to have in their voice when they would call Dave for money advice. Dave says he can almost sense if this particular person would be successful or not. The common pattern was a mindset transformation! As Dave says, they were sick and tired of being sick and tired. |
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