The Perfect Diet??

We all want the perfect diet.

We want someone to tell us exactly what to do, what to eat, how many calories we should have…

We think that’s the way we’ll be able to lose weight.

And you absolutely can lose weight that way.  But the trick is being able to keep it off…

That’s often where most diets fall short.

Any diet can help you lose weight as long as you keep doing it.

But the problem is, most of us have a hard time being on a diet long-term. 

And that's how we get stuck in that endless diet loop - starting and stopping diets - losing and regaining the same weight over and over again.

There are a lot of us out there that have been doing that for years…decades even.

It's a lot of work and it's frustrating as all get out… but you may not feel like there's another option.

We’ve become so entrenched in diet dogma that we think that's the only way to lose weight - it’s just a matter of finding the one “that works”.

Dieting is a lot like dating. You suffer through a lot of bad diets hoping to find “the one” you can stick with for the rest of your life.

But you don’t need to be on a diet to lose weight - really!  In fact, its better not to. Ideally, you really want to lose the weight the way you want to live your life - for most of us that doesn’t include being on a strict diet.

After almost 20 years of constant dieting and worrying about my weight, I finally had to tell myself that I was no longer willing to do anything - just to lose weight - that I couldn’t stick to.  I had gotten so sick of putting in all that effort to just end up right back where I started a few months later.

I’m guessing if you’re reading this post you feel the same…

There are really just 3 key elements to being able to really create your own “diet”.

1) Is the nutrition piece - ya you knew we had to go there…

You need to know how food works in your body, how the food you eat affects your hormones, and how to find the foods that work best for you.  This takes some experimentation and some trial and error but it's worth it because the information you glean from it is specific to you.  You’ll no longer be tied to some food list you found on Pinterest.

2) You need to work on your thoughts and mindset.

This is an important piece of the puzzle that most diets miss.  You have over 60k thoughts every day - most of them you don’t even hear.  But they’re still there running in the background affecting how you feel and what you do or don’t do.

Often it's those thoughts that send us down that slippery slope of self-sabotage,

But since we don’t even know they’re there we can’t do anything about them.  

You want to learn to identify those thoughts, question them, and if necessary, change them as you’re losing the weight. Because, trust me, those thoughts and the shitty things you tell yourself aren’t just gonna magically go away once you get to your goal weight.

3) You need to learn how to create healthy habits that fit into your life.  Habits that you can and actually want to stick to so you’re not just stuck trying to follow the (diet) “rules” that may or may not work in your everyday real life. 

Yes it’s a process and just counting calories may sound so much easier… but you have to ask yourself do you want to be on a diet for the rest of your life?  Do you want to continue you on that seemingly endless quest for “the one”?

In the long run that option sounds so much harder than just learning how to lose the weight and keep it off - essentially creating your very own “diet” based on your likes and dislikes, your lifestyle, your goals, and how you want to feel. That's what's needed for sustainable weight loss.

When you put in the time and effort to really work on finding what works for you you’re not stuck having to follow someone else’s diet rules.

If you need help with this grab my Weight Loss Kickstart Guide here and I’ll help you get started.