Read Through the Following Eating and Exercise Styles

Eating and Exercise Styles
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Read through the following eating and exercise styles.

OVERALL EATING STYLE

HYPER CONSCIOUS

· Paying attention to each thing going into your mouth.

· Monitoring the hunger scale religiously.

· Eliminating all fog eating.

· Daily recording of thoughts and all overeating.

· Planning meals very carefully.

· Very strict on 90% fuel and 10% joy.

· When moving from unconscious to hyperconscious-weight loss.

This is key in the beginning and during the lose weight phase. This is the causal work that makes it permanent.

CONSCIOUS

(This is where most naturally thin people are.)

· Paying very close attention but possibly not keeping a journal.

· Planning meals.

· Still very conscious of hunger scale.

· Fuel might hover between 70-90% but even when eating non-fuel food, stop
at +2.

This is maintenance phase, or possibly weight loss (although much more slowly) when coming from unconscious.

UNCONSCIOUS

· No awareness of hunger scale.

· No thought given to the four types of eating or making effort to eat fuel.

· Yo-yo dieting with no awareness of thoughts driving behavior.

· Starving-binging behavior.

· Eating more than 50% non-fuel foods regularly.

This leads to weight gain.

Eating and Exercise Styles
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OVERALL EXERCISE STYLE

HYPER-FIT

· Intense workouts that include running, biking, hiking, weight lifting, aerobics classes, etc., at least five days a week.

· Typically don’t go more than one day without a workout.

· Need to shower after workout because so sweaty.

· Workouts are difficult.

· Body is regularly sore.

· Could do at least half marathon or equivalent sustained exercise.

FIT

· Workout at least four days a week consistently.

· Able to run/jog for at least thirty minutes straight without stopping.

· Can complete an hour aerobics class physically.

· Need to shower after workouts.

· Workouts are challenging.

MODERATELY FIT

· Walk or other light exercise four days a week.

· Exercise is not always consistent.

· Can walk for an hour straight.

· Exercise does not necessarily require shower afterward.

UNFIT

· Very little exercise at all.

· Trouble walking up three flights of stairs briskly without stopping.

· Very rarely get heart rate up from body movement.

· No planning or consistency with exercising.

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How would you categorize your current eating style if you had to pick only one?

Why?

What eating style would you like to have? Why?

How would you categorize your current exercise style if you had to pick only one?

Why?

What exercise style would you like to have? Why?