The Food Diaries - Carry Forth Tradition - Introduction by Becky James

Okay, so hi Paula, hi Quentin. Hi Becky, hi Quentin, how are you guys today? I'm fine, you? I'm great. I've just been thinking about what I'm eating more lately and I know that you know we've got our Quentin here who knows a lot about these sort of things and I was just wondering if Quentin you might give me a bit of a hand and you know point me in the right direction a bit about what I'm eating a few adjustments. Well you know as I've said to train when I've trained clients you know the first thing that you have to do when I'm training anybody is I have to know who you are right because I think people's minds today are so filled with different ideas and and different things. People have a magazines, they got books, you go to a when you believe when they used to have bookstores you go to a bookstore and there's 17,000 books on 17 to 17 different diets and the reason why they don't work the reason why it usually always fails is because the person somewhere along the line couldn't fit in their life and who they were to that particular book that particular diet because the book is written for an overall thing so the first thing I'd have to do to help is I have to get to know who you are right and that's the most challenging thing with people because as a trainer we always joke people really they go on automatic pilot they don't really know how they got to where they're at in the first place and so my job if someone is lost it's kind of trying to find where they went where they went wrong you know what how did they make a left when they should have made a right or they're going north when they should go south so the first thing that I would ask you to do is to just get a little a little notepad a little notebook and as you go for like the next three days you know I've been doing for a long time like three days is fine and and be honest you know don't don't try to go on a diet on yourself for three days and be like well I I woke up and had water and then I had a a piece of bread you know eat regular like you always would do with your coffee with your whatever you're eating your sugars whatever pastries whatever everything down just a little be honest because you got to see what the pattern is I work with people and when I can tell you people act like they only eat 500 calories a day and then when they look at that list at the end of the day they go oh my god I'm eating like 4,000 calories I mean like 3,000 they didn't know they had no idea you know so that's the first thing you do write down the things you do and the timing that you do them so I can see what your life goes what time you eat because then I can tweak you then I can show you you know what things to do and what things to cut away because I don't want people I don't see I don't want people to ever have to do something they don't normally do right I don't know what you normally eat sometimes you can keep many of the things that you already do you don't have to sacrifice them so I can't give you my diet I gotta give you your diet your eating okay and I know that you know it's been a really strange year and I've probably been doing a lot of comfy since I'm already aware of that so you know I'm thinking we all have we all have you know we're all in the same boat I'm in the same boat with you I'm a very realistic guy I got out of training physically physical fitness training because I didn't like the deception I didn't like the phoniness and the image driven thing I want people to get into their body to free them right to open them up to their life not to put another burden another thing to do on their on their particular life because that's true fitness in my opinion okay so all right I'll get myself a little notepad and a pen there you go and I will do that are you gonna join in I am there you go you down too you down all right all right slice of homemade bread every half an hour with some there you go and that could explain a lot I've been eating haribo's on the night before I go to sleep did you say hairy what jellies like jelly sweets