- Simplicity
- New habit, not a new diet
- Healthy food always
- Solve the cause, not the symptom
1. Simplicity: whatever eating habit you choose needs to be simple
I’m assuming that losing weight is not the main goal in your life. I’m assuming that you desire a healthy weight, to be able to maintain it easily and to move on to more interesting things.
For this simplicity is key. That’s why I will not tell you, for example, to count calories. We’ll cover this in another post but counting calories doesn’t work, it’s incredibly complicated and requires way too much time.
2. Establish a new habit, not a new diet
Diets are temporary by definition. We are aiming for long term success. You will establish new habits around food and eating. You will need to think long-term from the very beginning.
3. Healthy food always
Crazy diets may get the weight off but are unsustainable and some even damage your health. For example, I will not recommend you use fat to feel more easily satiated.
There are lots of different versions of healthy eating around the world. Whatever works for you is what it will be sustainable for you. I can tell you what I do but that that is just one way to do it. I will give you guidance but not food recipes. There’s plenty of great recipes and food lists out there. I want you to decide what works for you.
Wacky diets may get the weight off but are unsustainable and some even damage your health. For example, I will not recommend you use fat to feel easily satiated.
There are lots of different versions of healthy eating around the world. Whatever works for you is what will be sustainable for you. I can tell you what I do but that that is just one way of doing it unique to me. I will give you guidance but not food recipes. There’s plenty of great recipes and food lists out there. I want you to decide what works for you.
4. Focus on solving the cause (‘overeating’ behaviour), not the symptom (weight)
Understanding why you overeat is the key to unlocking the problem, but no ‘diet plan’ aims to solve that for you. The focus of my work is to understand and change the reason(s) why you overeat. Knowing that you will understand this is why I am sure that you can lose the excess weight.
Applying these principles to your new eating habits means that results are much more likely to be sustainable. No more weight cycling or yo-yo dieting.
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