This is not a Diet but you will Lose Weight

Healthy Eating Planning: A Non-Diet Approach to Lose Weight

Diets don’t address the root cause of why we have put on weight.

Diets often totally restrict us from our favourite foods causing cravings.

Some diets can be unhealthy cutting out important foods groups such as fats

What you need to know:

1. Planning – eating healthily involves thinking about it a few days before. When you don’t have the right food in the house, you are more likely to eat the wrong thing. Make your menu fit in with your work / social life so that you have quick meals on busy days, and can spend more time creating and batch cooking on easier days
2. Blood sugar balance – if you start the day on sugar, you are heading for a blood sugar roller coaster. Sugar highs are followed by crashes causing cravings for sugar and raising stress levels, and the whole thing repeats. By balancing each meal with protein, some healthy fats (nuts/ seeds, olive oil, avocado) and complex carbs (potatoes in the skins, brown rice, pulses) you will feel fuller for longer with less cravings. Cravings are not the same as hunger.
3. Willpower – are you supporting your will power? Are there foods in the house, or in sight that you don’t want to eat. Either don’t buy them or hide them. When going out for meals or socialising, check the menu first and create a agreement with yourself of how you are going to eat / drink
4. Snacking – the food manufacturers convince us we need to snack, but if your blood sugar is balanced as above, you can have 3 meals a day without snacks
5. Keep a food diary – writing down what you eat and drink on a daily basis is very useful for noticing unhealthy patterns
6. Listening to your appetite. Do you eat when you aren’t hungry, or over eat because you are bored. Listening to your true appetite when your blood sugar is balanced will allow you to eat only when hungry.