Don't diet, do this instead

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'Having a healthy relationship with food means you are not morally superior or inferior based on your eating choices.'

Evelyn Tribole

Diets don’t work, here’s why:

1. They are outcome-focused – not lifestyle focused
2. They achieve finite goals – so they become redundant
3. They are based on doing, not being – i.e. Do this and you will get that - if doing isn't aligned with you (the human-BEING) it doesn't last

Diets can create short-term change, and they can get results, but they don’t create long-term transformation. Even when they create positive results, they rarely create a positive experience.

Since what you really want is to improve your life in the long term, and to enjoy it, diets don’t really serve you.

In fact, going on and off diets over the years can lead to beliefs such as ‘I can’t lose weight’ or ‘I have no self-control’.

‘So what’s the alternative?’ I hear you wonder…

Focus on who you want to be, not what you need to do. Be the version of you that eats mindfully and makes time to consider your food choices, and long-term goals and values your health highly. 

Rather than saying ‘I will not eat chocolate’, focus on ‘I am a person who eats chocolate in moderation’. When you embody that version of yourself, you can use the below tools.

• Make sustainable changes – things you can live with long term
• Position it as a lifestyle shift – who you want to be long term
• Create simple modifications to your existing ‘diet’
• Think about balance and moderation – have less, not none

Using this philosophy, many of my clients have lost weight effortlessly and kept it off. What’s more, they enjoy the process and are often extremely surprised by the results.

A balanced diet is part of a balanced life – sustainable and enjoyable. My mission is to help people live more healthy, balanced and fulfilling lives because all three components go hand in hand.

A healthy diet is a vital contributor to a healthy body, a healthy body is crucial to a healthy mind.

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