Free Yourself from Dieting

Does your closet contain several different sizes of clothing because you tend to lose weight and put it back on? The experience of yo-yo dieting, or what the experts call weight cycling, is when you intentionally lose weight and then unintentionally gain it all back again. There are deleterious consequences to this vicious cycle, including serious health consequences. Not only is the regained weight harder to lose, but cycling your weight up and down the scale takes a serious toll on your body.

But you don’t have to live in a constant state of ‘diet.’ One of the most important messages about weight loss is this: Adopt a healthy diet, lose your excess weight, and continue your new, healthier way of eating forever. Making positive changes to your diet to improve your health and your weight need to be permanent changes, not temporary. So it is important when you decide to change your diet that you believe it is a change that you can maintain for the rest of your life. One way to ensure a permanent change is to stay away from fad diets which tend to be about deprivation.

Eat High-Nutrient Food

 A successful diet is one that focuses on the health-promoting and delicious foods you can enjoy daily; not calorie counting and small portion sizes. The focus is on nutrient dense, plant-rich foods such as colorful vegetables, beans, nuts, seeds, and some fruit, with the option of adding small amounts of animal products. By supplying your body with high-nutrient foods you will not be hungry and you won’t feel deprived. The best thing about the Nutritarian diet is, after you withdraw from a diet of excess salt, oil and sugar, you will appreciate the taste of natural, wholesome food. With time, cravings for old comfort foods diminish as a new sense of taste emerges. The side effect of a nutritarian diet is protection against cancer, heart disease, strokes and dementia. It’s called a no-brainer.

With a plant-rich, nutrient-dense diet, you don’t have to worry about counting calories or portion size because you are not feeling driven to overeat. This highly sustainable eating style is one that will change the way you look at food forever and help you become healthy and keep fit for life.

End Fad Diets

Diets that use strategies like cutting out carbs and overconsuming protein don’t work, and are often damaging to health. Portion control doesn’t work either; you are constantly trying to eat smaller amounts of the same addictive foods that fueled your weight gain in the first place. It is almost impossible to sustain these types of diets over the long-term. Changing your diet permanently is what does work; you must remove low-nutrient addictive foods and eat an abundance of healthful foods.

But this eating style works best if you first become educated about nutritional excellence and making your diet nutritionally complete. There are many resources to help you find out what to eat and how to prepare your food so that you are getting the most nutritionally complete meals possible. My blog posts, my website, my books and my health transformation events all assist those who want to learn how to use food to power their bodies and empower their lives. The best part is that it works; well documented in the scientific literature.  Plus, my website contains many success stories of people who were once addicted to food, obese and ill from diseases caused by consuming the Standard American Diet (SAD).

You will love this way of eating. As you adjust to the taste of whole, natural food, you lose your taste for manufactured food, and you will discover an array of delicious new flavors that will be even more pleasurable than eating was before. This way of eating increases your energy and makes you feel great. The right food is the most powerful medicine to protect your precious health. I won’t need to tell you to live this way forever, the positive changes both physically and emotionally that result from eating this way will be so compelling that you will never want to go back.   

Eat Sensibly         

A recent, small study of 75 obese patients who had switched to a Nutritarian diet reported their average weight loss was 55 pounds, and none had gained back any lost weight three years later.¹ Compare that to most weight loss intervention studies which report average maintained losses of only 6 to 13 pounds after two years.²

My book, The End of Dieting, explains exactly how to break out of the cycle of yo-yo dieting, overeating and food addiction — and how to keep the weight you lose off, permanently.

References

1. Fuhrman J, Singer M. Improved Cardiovascular Parameter With a Nutrient-Dense, Plant-Rich Diet-Style: A Patient Survey With Illustrative Cases. Am J Lifestyle Med 2015.
2. Franz MJ, VanWormer JJ, Crain AL, et al. Weight-loss outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of weight-loss clinical trials with a minimum 1-year follow-up. J Am Diet Assoc 2007, 107:1755-1767.