I'm a Personal Trainer and I Never Tell My Clients to Go On a Diet

As someone who is fiercely dedicated to empowering women, diet culture is not something bigfitgirl can stand by.

. This messaging infiltrates our lives and our consciousness through advertising, media, pop culture, and beyond. It's everywhere.

Still, many fitness educators and trainers focus on their clients’ “ideal” body mass index , which, as a measurement of an individual’s health, is. Beyond the fact that BMI isn’t a useful standard to chase, I believe that focusing on size and weight and, in turn, encouraging your clients to hyper-focus on their weight, robs people of the joy and fulfillment that exercise can bring.

I know from personal experience that being constantly hungry wasn’t something I could live with for any length of time. When the optimism and excitement about the diet wears off and the body starts to demand food and the mind starts to beg to be freed from restriction and deprivation, that’s when we begin to falter and eventually fail. Unfortunately, we often internalize this as our own failure, when in reality, it’s the diet that’s failing us. All the restriction tends to backfire.

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