{"id":796,"date":"2021-03-17T10:58:18","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T10:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.alison.com\/?p=796"},"modified":"2021-05-05T14:36:54","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T13:36:54","slug":"why-i-am-taking-the-diet-and-nutrition-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alison.com\/blog\/why-i-am-taking-the-diet-and-nutrition-course","title":{"rendered":"Why I Am Taking the Diet and Nutrition Course"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Omar B<\/em>. –\u00a0<\/b>It\u2019s time to admit it. I am not very healthy. It\u2019s nothing serious. I don\u2019t need to go to hospital or have emergency treatment. It\u2019s not that bad. But I need to accept that I am not in good shape. I regularly need to buy new clothes, I feel tired and inactive, I don\u2019t look forward to walking around, and I am not happy with what I look like.<\/span><\/p>\n

But this is going to change. The first thing I did was admit I was not in good shape. Then, I decided to do something about it. So, I started reading about health and fitness, and then I started making some changes to my diet and to my daily routine. I walk a little more, I eat a little less, and I eat a little different. This feels good.<\/span><\/p>\n

But I don\u2019t just feel good because I\u2019m eating differently or acting differently. I feel good because for the first time in a long time I am in control of my health. I have this control because, alongside my diet and exercise, I am taking <\/span>Alison\u2019s course on Diet and Nutrition<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

This course is giving me more than a list of instructions for dieting. It\u2019s teaching me why certain things are healthy<\/a> and why others are not. It\u2019s teaching me what these previously meaningless words (proteins, carbohydrates) actually mean. Now, when I go shopping and when I eat, I understand why I am choosing this food. I understand what is going into my body. This gives me a sense of control over my health that I never had before.<\/span><\/p>\n

This started when a friend of mine asked me \u201cwhy are you eating more salmon?\u201d All I could say was, \u201cit\u2019s healthy.\u201d He asked me why, and I realised I had no idea. I just sort of thought \u201cit looks healthy.\u201d But then I realised that I had no good reason to think this. Did I just see an advertisement for salmon? Did I see someone who looked healthy eating salmon? Why did I think it was healthy<\/a>? Knowledge is power, and without knowledge I felt really powerless. And I never realised that this lack of knowledge was one of the things that was making me feel this way.<\/span><\/p>\n

The course I\u2019m taking<\/span> is also guiding me through really important issues like life expectancy and healthcare. These make me more confident that what I am doing for my body now will have long term benefits. I cannot tell you what a relief this has been. I can go shopping and have dinner knowing that I am making good choices. That really has made all the difference. I just wish I had done all of this sooner, before I gained so many pounds! <\/span><\/p>\n

I suppose what I\u2019ve learned the most is this: No matter who you are or how healthy you feel, it\u2019s never to early or too late to take control of your diet. That control starts with knowledge. <\/span>Find that knowledge here<\/span><\/a>, and gain so much more.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Omar B. –\u00a0It\u2019s time to admit it. I am not very healthy. It\u2019s nothing serious. I don\u2019t need to go to hospital or have emergency treatment. It\u2019s not that bad. But I need to accept that I am not in good shape. I regularly need to buy new clothes, I feel tired and inactive, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23,42],"class_list":["post-796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alison-in-action","tag-fitness","tag-health","match-height"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/alison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Why-I-Am-Taking-the-Diet-and-Nutrition-Course-1024x683.jpg","featured_category":"Alison in Action","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alison.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alison.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alison.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alison.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alison.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/alison.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6065,"href":"https:\/\/alison.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions\/6065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alison.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alison.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alison.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alison.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}