DIET
The non-diet approach to health
Genuine alternatives to the 'lose weight, gain more weight' diet cycle do exist, and they have the power to restore health and reconnect us to the innate wisdom of our bodies.
by Casey Conroy
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re you sick of hearing about the newest weight loss diet? I know I am!
Weight loss hysteria seems to peak
after Easter, winter, and Christmas, when people are more desperate to lose any extra weight gained over the hibernation months or holidays. Perhaps you too have grown weary of the latest diet that promises tempting yet unrealistic results. At the risk of losing any readers who love number crunching and vehemently watching the scales, I feel the truth must be told!
THE UNHEALTHY RESULT OF WEIGHT CYCLING Weight cycling brought on by years of yoyo or crash dieting is unhealthy. A huge amount of research shows that putting on weight, losing weight (putting on more, losing a little), over and over again, is detrimental to our physical, mental, and emotional health. And it crushes the spirit. The kicker is that dieting almost never
results in the permanent weight loss people want in the first place! In fact, the longer someone has been dieting,
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the heavier (and more frustrated) they tend to become.Weight loss dieting research shows that: ⅓ to ⅔ of the weight is regained within one year, and almost all is regained within five years. The spotlight is so intently placed on
weight - how much we weigh, how many kilograms we want to lose, how fast we can lose it. But clearly this approach is failing. The vast majority of people who diet regain all the weight they originally lost, often plus some. Despite surface appearances,
temporarily getting excess weight off at any cost is not the goal. When a client, family member, or dear friend tells me she has purchased the newest diet book focusing on getting her body fat under a certain percentage in four weeks or four months, I feel she is robbed of a golden opportunity – the opportunity to look past the kilograms and the kilojoules and develop a healthy relationship to food and to her body.
WHAT IS THE NON-DIET APPROACH? The spotlight needs to refocus on our relationship to food and our bodies,
A huge amount of research shows that putting on weight, losing weight, over and over again, is detrimental to our physical, mental, and emotional health. And it crushes the spirit.
rather than just the food or the physical body itself. In today's quick-fix society this is not a common approach, nor an easy task. However, genuine alternatives to the endless diet cycle do exist. Enter the non-diet approach,
which puts the focus on wellness, not weight. It is based on the premise that if we eat to feel good and care for ourselves, then health will naturally
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