Create a “Livable” Diet “
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Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.” —Vincent Van Gogh If you’re like most of my clients you’re ready for some hard-core, practical advice on what you can do right now to start dropping pounds. Or, if you’ve already lost the weight, you want information and strategies that will keep you in the game for the rest of your life. Not every one of the tools I’ll be offering will work for every one of you, but you don’t need all of them. You need to find the ones that do work for you because, as I’ve been saying, this will be your own personalized livable diet, not a prescription to be followed blindly, whether it makes sense to you or not. Some of what I’m about to show you may also seem obvious or sound like nothing more than common sense– and to some it may be both. But I’ve found that, for almost all my clients, understanding how to create a Livable Diet is not common sense— it may make sense, but it’s not common sense. There is a world of difference.
So what is a Livable Diet? Simply put, it’s a diet you can live with for the rest of your life. Still not sure? Let me ask you a quick question: How long can you hold your breath? If you’re good, maybe 30 or 40 seconds. So, yes, you can do it, but only for a very short period of time. Well, that’s how most people diet— they can do it for a bit, but they can’t keep holding their breath forever. What they can do, however, is create their own, individual, automatic, livable diet— and so can you. In fact, it’s the only thing that can work long term. It worked for me, it’s worked for thousands of my clients, and it’s supported by countless scientific studies.
In the Independent, a London-based newspaper, Dr. Jane Ogden, a professor of health psychology at King’s College London, identified three reasons why most diets are not successful: “confusion about what ‘cutting down’ actually means for everyday eating; the fact that the minute you deny yourself something you become fixated on that object; and the fact that most diets equal eating boring, ‘untasty food.’” Therefore, you need to find out what it means to “cut down” and discover “tasty foods” that are low in calories. If you can do those two simple things, you’ll be on the road to creating a livable diet, and I’m going to show you how. Then, if you can gear up your physical activity (Step 6) even a small degree in order to speed up your metabolism and increase your calorie spending, you’ll have acquired many of the “food and fitness” tools you need to lose and/ or maintain your weight without changing everything else in your life.
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| Create a “Livable” Diet “ |
So what is a Livable Diet? Simply put, it’s a diet you can live with for the rest of your life. Still not sure? Let me ask you a quick question: How long can you hold your breath? If you’re good, maybe 30 or 40 seconds. So, yes, you can do it, but only for a very short period of time. Well, that’s how most people diet— they can do it for a bit, but they can’t keep holding their breath forever. What they can do, however, is create their own, individual, automatic, livable diet— and so can you. In fact, it’s the only thing that can work long term. It worked for me, it’s worked for thousands of my clients, and it’s supported by countless scientific studies.
In the Independent, a London-based newspaper, Dr. Jane Ogden, a professor of health psychology at King’s College London, identified three reasons why most diets are not successful: “confusion about what ‘cutting down’ actually means for everyday eating; the fact that the minute you deny yourself something you become fixated on that object; and the fact that most diets equal eating boring, ‘untasty food.’” Therefore, you need to find out what it means to “cut down” and discover “tasty foods” that are low in calories. If you can do those two simple things, you’ll be on the road to creating a livable diet, and I’m going to show you how. Then, if you can gear up your physical activity (Step 6) even a small degree in order to speed up your metabolism and increase your calorie spending, you’ll have acquired many of the “food and fitness” tools you need to lose and/ or maintain your weight without changing everything else in your life.
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