{"id":9094,"date":"2014-02-02T07:47:39","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T12:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=9094"},"modified":"2014-03-03T11:51:03","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T16:51:03","slug":"sponsored-diet-is-a-four-letter-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2014\/02\/02\/sponsored-diet-is-a-four-letter-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Sponsored: Diet is a four-letter word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">I<\/span> like it when pitches for sponsored posts align with the ideas rattling around in my head. This is another one of those instances.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian Olympian and mom Silken Laumann worked with Multi-Grain Cheerios on the <a href=\"http:\/\/unr.ly\/1e3cLmw\">World Without Dieting<\/a> campaign. This is the basis of the campaign:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWe believe that nutrition is healthier than deprivation and that dieting is harmful to us and to our children. So let&#8217;s embrace a healthy, balanced lifestyle, and empower the next generation to do the same by removing the word dieting from our lives and replacing it with words like nourished, strong, and fulfilled.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In this video, Silken tells her young daughter why she thinks &#8220;dieting&#8221; is a hurtful word.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/video.unrulymedia.com\/wildfire_165248055.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I like this message. To me, &#8220;diet&#8221; implies something to which you subject yourself, something you endure, something short term and unpleasant. Although I never framed it in those terms, I do see how dieting can be a hurtful word. <\/p>\n<p>You might remember back a few years ago I lost nearly 30 lbs, and I felt terrific. Since then, my weight has crept back up &#8211; doesn&#8217;t it always? It&#8217;s not as high as it was after I had Lucas, but it is about 10 lbs heavier than I want to be. I&#8217;ve been hesitant to go back on the &#8220;diet&#8221; I was on because it was restrictive and involved a lot of planning and hard work and denying myself things I really like to eat. Instead, I&#8217;m trying to bump up my activity level and be much more moderate with things that are yummy but perhaps not quite the best nutritional choice. (Hello, cheddar jalapeno cheesies, I am talking to you!) <\/p>\n<p>Even more of a challenge is watching the eating habits of one of the boys. His metabolism seems to be a little slower and he is disinclined to physical activity, so his weight is starting to creep up.  It may well be one of those growth phase things, where he is filling out and about to shoot up in height, but I am still trying to take this opportunity to teach all three of the boys about good nutritional choices without actually restricting what they are eating.  All that to say, I&#8217;ve been making the same choices that Silken outlines in her video without being consciously aware of it. I&#8217;m trying to teach them the best possible every-day eating habits so dieting will never even cross their minds.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think about the whole idea of doing away with the word &#8220;diet&#8221;? Do we empower ourselves when we take away the power of the word? Does taking away the word take away the problem?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Edited to add:<\/strong> Hmm, I&#8217;m having trouble with the embedded video player, are you? You can <a href=\"http:\/\/unr.ly\/1aGBYmv\">see the video and take the &#8220;never say diet&#8221; oath here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\n<strong>Disclosure<\/strong>: This post is sponsored by Multi-Grain Cheerios. However, as always, the opinions in this blog are my own.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like it when pitches for sponsored posts align with the ideas rattling around in my head. This is another one of those instances. Canadian Olympian and mom Silken Laumann worked with Multi-Grain Cheerios on the World Without Dieting campaign. This is the basis of the campaign: We believe that nutrition is healthier than deprivation &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2014\/02\/02\/sponsored-diet-is-a-four-letter-word\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sponsored: Diet is a four-letter word&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-product-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9094"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9101,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9094\/revisions\/9101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}