
It’s all a trick. (image from Pinterest)
It has surprised me that triathlon magazines, websites and social media accounts etc spend so much time discussing what to eat or not eat – beyond simply discussing what makes good fuel or not. Not naming any names, but certain sites talk about diets and food with a blatant focus on fat-shaming and food one-upmanship.
Which is a shame because I think we could have kept the two things separate (triathlon and food guilt)
There are so many websites dedicated to making you feel bad about eating certain foods (I reckon you could name any food type and there will be a website claiming you should never eat it) that it seems unnecessary for triathlon sites to get involved in the foray.
We could simply have stuck to swimming, biking, running, shopping and racing. With maybe some ideas of foods that help or hinder said training.
But no, I find myself bombarded with pictures of green smoothie bowls (WHY is it in an effing bowl?) made with home-grown kale. Which frankly looks far superior to my giant bowl of Cocoa Pops, because of course it is superior. And the smoothie pictures always have a smug caption beneath them, along the lines of ‘I managed to gulp down half of this delicious elixir before my 792 kilometre bike ride this morning, but it was just so filling I had to save the other half for when I returned! I wont be needing any dinner tonight!’
To which my response is ‘Eff you, mother-effer’.
So I thought I’d weigh in with my own thoughts on eating. They’re very random and possibly controversial, but it’s my blog and I’m just being honest. Leave your hate-mail messages in the comments and I will take them on the chin.
DISCLAIMER: I will not claim to have all the answers on eating right all the time. Because I clearly don’t! But I also don’t care: If you want to eat right all the time, in my opinion you may be insane and this is not a post for you. Continue reading →