E. 189 Are You Being Too Restrictive With Your Diet?

Now, these terms strict versus restricted, I can tell you being strict It is fundamentally different.

Oftentimes these things, they are seen as synonyms.

They are seen as basically communicating the same message.

But I'm telling you, being strict, that is about structure.

That is a boundary that you've set that you could verbalize the why.

You could verbalize what that means to me right now if I asked you.

And even though to some people it can look like it is very rigid, that there's no flexibility.

There is give built into it.

There is context.

There is situations that you're like, yes, that falls outside of what I initially intended when I set this boundary.

If we're talking about a training split, being strict versus being restricted, if you restrict that split, that plan is going to bend.

If you got a bad night's sleep, if you got in a fight with your partner, if your kid is sick, If you're going through your own health issues, like you are going to curve that and you're not going to come away from that flexibility with this immense amount of shame and guilt.

The big difference is the plan is built around the productivity in getting you to that destination while also taking into account that things aren't going to be perfect.

You're not going to have consistent days that frankly look like you're... what is it, the Truman Show? You're not going to live in this world where like you're isolated to this bubble.

You probably have responsibilities.

You probably have other people that rely on you.

You probably have stressors.

So there's going to be something dynamic about how you, and I guess more so fluid in how you approach your decision-making still working within certain constraints.

And being restricted, being restrictive, it comes from a different place entirely.

I'm telling you, the essence of being restricted, it is rooted in fear.

There's an aspect to scarcity here.

You are really not so much running towards something, you're running away from this feeling, this feeling of shame, this feeling of failure.

Maybe it's a feeling you've been living with, a feeling like, I just, I am not good enough.

So I think about it like, yes, like there are rules, there are boundaries, you could say, even if you're restricted, but it's more so the restriction aspect comes from you are avoiding something that you just frankly, you don't want to feel, you don't want to acknowledge, you don't want to actually reflect on and parse through.

So I would almost think of it like this.