#adherence

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

When I cannot enjoy the faith of assurance, I live by the faith of adherence.

Matthew Henry

[digitalsigils]

‘commitment’

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[machetelanding]

[supercodi]

“I’ve tried all the diets and nothing works.” Or “nothing worked for me until I tried keto.” 🤔 ... There is a reason there are so many diet wars. Quite frankly it’s because there is not a one size fits all diet plan because it’s not the diet that is working for you... it is your ability to adhere to it long term. 👌 ... How diet wars keep thriving: - Person: Tries all the diets and can’t stick to them but then stumbles upon a way of eating that is more suitable for them... let’s just use keto for this example. - Said person is so excited that this way of eating works for them and then is passionate about spreading the good news to others. It worked for them so it must work for everyone! 😑 - Their passion comes from a good place but unfortunately it’s not that simple. 😬 - There is not one type of diet that is a magical solution for everyone. What works for you might not work for someone else. It all comes down to what you can adhere to. - A diet plan ain’t shit if you can’t stick to it. 🙃 - I will always encourage eating as much whole, nutrient dense foods as possible, but it’s okay to experiment with different things to see what might work best for you. Just make sure to approach it with curiosity rather than a dogmatic approach. - Be careful of diet dogma and pay attention to how you feel and how well you are able to adhere to things. 💪 - Also keep in mind adherence doesn’t mean that it’s going to be automatically easy for you, there will still be some behavioral and habit change required but it shouldn’t be completely life sucking. Short term adherence and long term adherence are also two different things. ... #dietdogma #keto #eating #diet #adherence #calories #fitness #fit #weightloss #dietwars #thrive #health #nutrition #ftm #fatloss #mentalhealth #behaviorchange #food #personaltrainer https://www.instagram.com/p/CLaDIWpMpw-/?igshid=g0yd6w0dspmu

[snappingthewalls]

[otheromens]

There’s this common assumption I see sometimes in my fellow students when we’re discussing patient care. These nursing students will  assume the patient knows nothing about their own health, and that they’ll be perfectly adherent to their plan of care, even if they aren’t currently. This non-adherence is explained as the person simply not knowing why they must adhere, which means the only intervention that we need to do is education. So a person in year five of having type 2 diabetes needs a basic primer on what diabetes is, but once you explain that they’ll have no difficulty adhering to the diet, exercise, and medication regimen that they aren’t adhering to. 

It’s a belief that I’m SUPER vulnerable to myself, that if I could just explain myself well enough, of course everyone would agree with me and do what I say. (And hey! Sometimes it is an education problem! Health is complex and ever-changing, teach teach teach.) But it’s a naive and a little insulting view of people’s choices. People have reasons for what they do, even if we disagree with them. Sometimes the reasons are “I don’t understand the implications of my disease or how to manage it” and sometimes it’s “I get the implications but nearly as viscerally as I get how much I hate this current diet.” The intervention is to make it easier to adhere to the plan of care, not just explain the plan of care again. 

Which is something I think about all the time because my own medication regimen is take one, maybe two pills every day, and sometimes I’ll be in bed a foot from my pills and be like, “but I don’t wanna” and then my garbage brain is like “then don’t :)” and then I’m like “good point, garbage brain!! I’m glad I can rely on you to tell me how to manage your inherent garbage attributes.” 

Or like I’ve never met a lactose intolerant person who didn’t consume dairy. They know what lactose intolerance is. They intimately know. They look at a pizza and understand what their future holds. I’m not full on lactose intolerant but if you combine milk with sugar, my bowels become essentially an uninterrupted sickness tube, but do I love ice cream? Do I regularly destroy myself? Do I look at this pint of Ben and Jerry’s Chubby Hubby and understand that someday I will die but first I will live? Listen. Maybe I’m writing this post because I just ate that Ben and Jerry’s. I don’t know. We don’t know. Who can say. Hypothetically I’m full of regret and ice cream and I went into this mistake with my eyes wide open. My assessment notes the arrival of the sickness tube and a pervasive sense of knowing regret. The intervention is to purchase sorbet instead. Health is very hard. 

[jpfitnesspro]

Exercise Science Podcast #17: Program and Nutrition Adherence

In this episode of the exercise science podcast, I explain the importance of exercise and nutrition adherence, and how it often gets overlooked when in comparison to other variables.