Its Not a Bloody Diet!

What you eat IS your diet, so OK yes it is a diet but so is eating chips, pizza and donuts every day (the world is a cruel place that this isn’t actually good for you). Usually I will try to avoid using the word diet in all but this section as it would make this bit hard to follow if I didn’t…

When your goals is weight loss’ there are a million different diets out there, I didn’t count them but it must be at least that. Fundamentally they all have one thing ultimately in common, if they work at all as a weight loss plan. Calorie deficit.  They will reduce the amount of calories you consume. 

Whether it’s a juice plan or the Atkins, keto, intermittent fasting, at their core (assuming weight loss is the goal) they just provide you with different techniques to help you reduce your overall calorie intake.

If any or all of the above work for you fantastic. This bits not for you (the whole site isn’t really…)

Are they gone now?

OK lets crack on.  I’m no expert on the above but for those who I know who have tried them I tend to see 2 things prevalent.

1. you do lose weight – and you cant stop banging on about it to anyone willing to listen – This is it it’s the magic formula everyone should do it.
2. After (insert timeframe here) you have given up you just couldn’t stomach it any more – you finally stop talking about it – you probably move on to the next diet in the list. Your weight creeps up, you start back on comforting  old habits.

“So why don’t they work”

Like I said they normally do but its often temporary, because the change in what you are able to eat just becomes intolerable, some diets are ridiculously low in calories, there’s no way you can sustain it , you will crack and the muffin monster will start talking to you in your sleep. Others become repetitive some will remove something critical from your diet making it unbalanced and ultimately can lead to serious health issues.

“So why is what you’re suggesting different”

Because it’s not a diet. We all need to eat a healthy balanced diet, this ideally means a wide range food with the correct balance of micro and macronutrients. How many calories you need each day is entirely down to the individual and cannot be set for you without at least basic knowledge of your weight and activity levels.  

Now the ideal balanced diet in my view would be all raw ingredients cooked from scratch with a thorough understanding of its micro and macro nutrient make up. I don’t have that for you maybe someone out there does and if they do send me their link :). Secondly though I simply (probably) don’t have the time or inclination to be that clean with my food.

Ok with that, why not call it a diet? I just want to remove the stigma of diets, what I’m suggesting is a long term change in how you view your food and ideally improve (not perfect) the composition of what makes up your weekly intake. Doing this in the correct way will forever change your relationship with and understanding of food and help you achieve and maintain your weight loss goals.

Its not a diet because it doesn’t have an end date (so it better be good).

Going forward we will learn how to work out what the right calorie intake for you specifically is. We will suggest a range of balanced macronutrient (Carbohydrate, Fat and Protein) for you to consider. In “The meal plan” we will talk more about how to achieve that and what to consider when building your plan.