Ami Baker PT

These are the 🚨 wrong reasons to go on a diet in my opinion.

Honestly I feel building up women's love for there bodies is as much a part of my job as anything.

And if we are internalising any of these reasons for dieting chances are we don't love ❤️👙the skin we're in.

Instead want women to reframe how they see their physical shelves, not as something with only display value 👁 - and lets be honest here its other women that get under our skin on this - but as the most complex and astonishing biological vessels for carrying us through life!

I don't think this app helps either! Just saying. 💬

Would love to know what you think 🤔 and make sure to watch tomorrow when I give what I think are valid reasons to diet 💚💚

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Diet on holiday?

As a teenager, I got into the habit of losing weight before a holiday because I wanted to feel more comfortable in a bikini. Looking back, I was actually tiny. 👙

Funny how our perspective changes.
Years later, I realised holidays are one of the easiest times for me to lose weight.

I'm away from my desk. I have time to walk, run and swim. 🏃‍♀️🌊
The heat seems to take the edge off my appetite, and beach restaurants make it so much easier to eat fresh fish, salads and vegetables.
I also don't spend my holiday thinking about calories.

I think about feeling energetic enough to explore somewhere new, swimming whenever I fancy it, walking instead of getting a taxi, and making the most of being outside in the sunshine. ☀️

For me, holidays bring out my healthiest habits without them feeling like hard work.

A few little things I do that help:

• I often book a hotel that's a walk from the centre, so getting my steps in happens naturally.
• If I'm having a big dinner, I'll usually keep lunch light without really thinking about it.
• I remind myself I'll remember the walk along the beach or exploring a new town far more than an extra basket of bread. 🥖

I've genuinely never come back from a holiday heavier.

I know some people think holidays should be all about switching off, eating everything in sight and doing absolutely nothing. That's completely fine.
I just enjoy my holidays more when I come home feeling fitter than when I left.

Would you ever try to lose weight on holiday, or is that taking things a step too far? 💬 💚💚

I felt like I had to speak from the heart ❤️ .

While I was eating my lunch today ✔️ of my diet series. I was thinking can I post this lunch? Is it Instagram worthy?

It does not have 50 types of perfectly choped veg and would not look good on a recipe card.

. and then I thought- yes - yes I am going to post it , as if I don't I am just part of the problem!

The fact is this lunch ticked all my nutritional needs. So it is great!

I promised transparent - so here's transparent.

So I have posted and be dammed.

After all my philosophy is good enough is good enough!

Now while my job is fixing womens bodies, and by that I mean making sure they are as functional and capable as they need to be for life, I see the destruction this app can do in terms of body image, self love or even life love.

Yes I am talking in regards to my context, but you could apply this to anything, how your house looks , what you wear - how you raise your children ever.

So to start feeling less than - lets be less curated. Who's with me??