Healthy Dieting

By going right back to the beginning, when we enjoyed a fully balanced diet consisting of all the nutrient-rich foods Mother Nature has to offer, when not any one f the macronutrients was being singled out and maligned. Making fat or protein or starch the fiend in the obesity stakes is the most commonly used trick of the quick-fix diet gurus and the basis of many, many low-kilojoule diets.

Also, in the beginning we were physically active, we weren’t exposed to the extreme stresses of today and we had enthusiasm, optimism and a high level of dedication to physical and spiritual survival.

Bearing all these factors in mind, I offer the following guidelines for permanent weight management:

• Avoid diets that target any of the macronutrients such as starch, protein or fat as unacceptable. Your body needs all those nutrients in order to shed weight and keep it off permanently. Eliminating one single macronutrient for long periods at a time could result in serious and often permanent physical – and emotional – damage.
• Avoid diets that give a money-back guarantee. There is bound to be a catch somewhere and it usually lies in the consumers decency (or even apathy) not to return goods that fail to deliver on a promise.
• Let go of the belief that weight loss is a temporary activity. It is not. Only quick-fix, low-kilojoule diets are temporary. But the damage they cause is usually permanent. Permanent weight management means what you do from tomorrow onwards (in terms of controlling your weight) you should plan to do forever. If you return to any of your current eating habits that are not balanced, the lost weight will return. In the form of fat. Not muscle.
• Commit to permanent lifestyle changes. Take an oath that whatever you do from now on when consuming food, you will do in honour of your body. Let what you eat be a reflection of the standard of service you require from your body. If you feed and treat it poorly, it will serve you poorly. Simple as that.
• Let go of the diet mentality and start following a sensible, balanced and delicious eating plan; one that will make room for your social life, allow for family and career flexibility, and one that will sustain and please you all the days of your life.
• Commit to the provision of all the essential nutritional elements your body requires to be lean, firm and healthy, as well as the seemingly non-nutritive elements such as oxygen, water and fibre.
• Most importantly, make the primary objective of your weight management plan the creation of a better balance between fat and muscle in your body.

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