Start Eating Healthy Without Being Miserable

When I dieted before I understood how to diet effectively I would eat as little as possible. It was probably something like 2 shakes and 1 meal. It was hell!

When I learned how to diet effectively on the highest calories I could get away with, training properly and slowing the process down it was fine. Not heaven but definitely not hell.

Until my metabolism adapted I kept my calories higher and then I moved them down slowly, figuring out how much I could eat and still lose fat.

As calories decreased I had to get more intelligent about the foods I chose to include but I took nothing off the menu completely for the duration of the fat loss process and psychologically and practically this makes everything so much easier to manage.

It meant I could still occasionally eat out and stay on course. It meant I wasn’t idealizing all the restricted foods I would consume in abundance once the diet was done.

I’m not suggesting dieting isn’t hard. It certainly comes with its challenges but does anything worth doing come easy? The pay off is bigger when you’ve worked for it and you grow as a person when you challenge your comfort zones and habitual patterns.

Challenging isn’t hell though.

You can, believe it or not, lower your body fat, still have a life and with some forward planning include some of those delicious high calorie foods you love.

Food has a positive effect on us when we listen to our body and not just our taste buds. A healthy diet, supplemented with exercise, good sleep and positive thinking can compromise a balanced diet in its truest sense.

DM to get working with my team.

Written by Alexandra.
Edited by Deepa