Anti Diet Revolution: Non Diet Weight Loss, Food Freedom, Never Diet Again

One of the most common reasons I hear women say they can’t meet their health goals is that they don’t have time.  

We live busy lives with careers, family, socializing, and all the logistics related to running a busy household.  

We often put ourselves, and our health, on the back burner,  prioritizing everyone before our own needs.

But what if dedicating time to ourselves, to our health goals or weight loss goals, can actually CREATE more time?

Wouldn't that be cool?

That’s what I’m here to propose to you today.  

First of all, we spend a lot of time thinking about our wellness goals.  That new health goal actually takes up a lot of your mental energy just having it mill about in your head.   

Often that energy and time spent thinking about the goal, shows up as guilt which is extremely counterproductive. 

If we actually committed to doing the thing, we free ourselves up from that angst, and actually create time for ourselves because we’re not preoccupied with the ‘should’ or ‘when am I going to do this goal’

It can actually be quite liberating

Check out this week's podcast, where I go through some more specific examples. 

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While not everyone is the same or has the same story, background, or even health goals

I have noticed some characteristics of women who crush their wellness goals.

I hope sharing them with you makes you think about some traits you may have in common and also how you can change your approach so you can be one of those individuals who crush their goals.

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Someone recently reached out to me and described their desire to lower their blood sugar  levels.  You see they had recently gone to the doctor, had blood work taken and found that they had gained 15 pounds during the pandemic but their blood work showed that they were prediabetic.  

Since then, they had  been ‘trying’ to lose weight.  This was new to them, they’d never been a dieter before and their weight had been previously been pretty stable.  But her main question was:

Why Was She Thinking About Food All The Time?

There are two pathways that trigger thoughts about food:
Homeostatic pathway
Hedonic pathway

Hedonic pathway includes:

• the environment around you
• food availability
• your thoughts
• advertising
• emotions
• stress

Tips to Stop Thinking About Food All the Time:
1. Take it easy on yourself
2. Don't be overly restrictive about food
3. Enjoy healthy meals and snacks
4. Drink enough water
5. Identify your patterns and triggers
6. Learn to let thoughts pass
7. Consider mindful eating
8. Move regularly
9. Know when to ask for help

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I know I’ve been coming off strong with these unconventional opinions here lately.  

But you know I’m a non-traditional dietitian bucking the traditional weight management world.  !

I hear so many people say “I should lose weight”

The word should always stands out to me.

It makes me wonder what is holding the person back.

And particularly if weight loss is really their goal.

Is weight loss really your goal?

We get so many messages in our society to lose weight

--from medical professionals (tell about Jessica how she hates going to the doctor because she knows they are going to tell her to lose weight)

--from media messages-from entertainers, from models, 

    There’s really a pervasive message of thinness and that bodies should look a particular way to look beautiful

--Maybe family members have mentioned your weight or commented on your weight before

BUT if weight loss is not YOUR goal then I can tell you right now you won’t lose weight!!

That’s why I suggest ditching the weight loss goal and when we shift our focus, shift our approach

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I recently had dinner with a friend and she told me Andrea you should do an episode for people like me who don’t cook.  We had a laugh together.  And she said 'no seriously, what do I do if I don’t cook'.

You might think she’s exaggerating but something about my friend and the kitchen they just don’t add up.  She burns food, sets off the smoke detector in her house, and literally feels stuck in the kitchen.  I’ve seen it in action and she’s learned she has other strengths so doesn’t really bother.  

So the question is what should she do to get food on the table??

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We’ve all heard the term emotional eating before

It’s really not a positive phrase or term used to describe positive things

I can’t think of one person who hasn’t eaten as a reaction to their emotions at some point in their life

The reason is that eating provides a distraction and also some immediate gratification

In the short term we might feel better, the food might give us some comfort, or enjoyment or take us away from our actual problems

But what I want you to realize is that it’s not a healthy way to cope with emotions, problems in our life, and all that.  

But what if emotional eating could be a good thing?

People ask me all the time if they need to log their food using an app like myfitnesspal?

I usually answer sort of sarcastically by saying I don’t advise my clients to do something that I wouldn’t do.

But in all seriousness, logging and tracking food is not fun.  It’s time consuming, tedious and often we underestimate the volume/portion size we eat.  Or we only track/log our food on days we know we ate healthy.  So for most people it doesn’t provide a good snapshot of what we really eat in a day.

Secondly, when you tell yourself to track, how long does it really last?

You end up telling yourself you’ll track your food, then quit, then feel guilty about it

It’s just another diet culture tactic that sucks us into that diet cycle, ultimately leaving us feeling guilty when we don't maintain the routine long term.  

Ultimately, tracking is about calorie counting and in this week's podcast episode I describe why this is an unhelpful habit. 

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 Before the pandemic, I was going to the CrossFit gym a couple of times a week.  I was very, very regular about it. I had the regular crew that was at the gym at 5:30 in the morning, and I was there every Monday, every Thursday. 

This early morning exercise schedule also had me running periodically in the morning on opposite days when I wasn't at the gym, or doing my yoga practice in the morning. And when the pandemic hit, obviously, the gyms were closed, so I could not go there. 

Fast forward a year after that, maybe nine months, I realized, oh my gosh, I had lost pretty much all of the strength that I worked so hard to build up. I had a bazillion excuses why I couldn't go back to the CrossFit gym.  Finally, I came to the conclusion that I can have 15 minutes in my day to dedicate to a workout because that was something that was doable in my mind.   I decided to dedicate 15 minutes a day, only 15 minutes. 

Since then, I have been pretty consistent about working out most days, 15 minutes, just doing home workouts that I find on YouTube. And this has helped me reach my goal that I wanted to achieve!

We make all kinds of excuses that keep us from reaching our health goals.  But dedicating 15 minutes per day can make a huge difference!

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I absolutely love this time of year!  Produce markets and farmers' markets are overflowing with juicy, fresh fruits and vegetables. 

Reasons to use seasonal produce:
Tastes better
More nutritious since it is picked at its peak ripeness
Cheaper
Support local farmers

Tips for Using:
Know which items are in season in your region
Keep meals simple
Ask the farmer their preparation tips
Find recipe inspiration
Avoid ingredient burnout

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Get my favorite ways to use zucchini here!

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A couple of months ago, I was working with a wonderful young woman named Allison.  She came to me and just started blurting out all this information.  Sometimes people use me like confessional, She said, it was my birthday and my friend was in town visiting.  So we celebrated and went out to eat, I had a couple of drinks and since my diet wasn’t good those days, I fell off the wagon.

But I know I need to be stricter with myself.  I will be stricter with myself.  

Does this sound like fun?  NO WAY.  Do you think this kind of attitude leads to lasting healthy eating habits?  Would you want to eat healthy if you had this attitude?  

NO way would I ever.  

This episode is adapted from a webinar I gave in the spring called Put the Fun Back in Food.  It’s time we did that and I hope that you’ll see that making food fun is the key to eating healthy and making it a way of life. 

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