Weight Loss Results Now: How To Stop Dieting & Lose Weight By Eating What You Want

You really can lose weight by eating what you want because weight loss is not about food. I know that might be really hard to wrap your head around, especially if you’ve been dieting for any length of time.

I’m sure you’ve heard people in authority tell you that there are good foods you should eat more of and bad foods you should avoid. You’ve probably been told that the only way to successful weight loss is to restrict the kinds of foods you eat or eat things you don’t much like or avoid certain categories of foods altogether. I’m here to tell you that none of that is true. None of it.

I used to believe all that too. I spent over 20 years on the diet-go-round, jumping from one diet to the next to the next. None of them ever worked long-term. The reason why is because losing weight and keeping it off is not about the food. Instead, it’s about what you think about food and its role in your life. The only foods you need to avoid are the ones that you’re allergic to. That’s it. Everything else is available to you.

To lose weight by eating what you want, change what you think about food

If you’re like me, you’ve probably given food some kind of emotional connotations in your life. Maybe you look to it to comfort you or give you worth and value or make you feel a certain way. It’s also likely that you’ve expected food to fix something in your life like a bad situation that you’re in or to numb you from a feeling you don’t want to feel or to help you avoid making a choice you just don’t want to make. But it’s not food’s job to make you feel anything or to fix anything in your life.

Food is fuel for your body so you can thrive. Any other meaning it holds for you is because that’s what you gave it. The great news is that you are in charge of what you think and believe about food and you can always, always, always change your mind. And if you want to get away from diets and dieting, and instead eat what you want and lose weight, well, then you’re going to have to change what you think and believe.

To lose weight by eating what you want, you’ve got to trust yourself & your body

You need to trust that your body knows what it needs and will let you know. All you’ve got to do is pay attention and do a little listening.

Your body will tell you when you’re hungry. It’ll tell you what you most want to eat because that’s what you’ll be craving. It’ll also tell you when you’re comfortably full so that’s when you stop eating even if that’s after a few bites or with food still left on your plate. The key is that you have to not only listen but to act on what you’re body is telling you. So if your body says you want chocolate or a banana or a hamburger, that’s what you eat.

I eat whatever my body is craving without judgment. So if I want a donut, I eat a donut. If I want bread or cookies or pasta or potatoes or whatever, I simply eat it. Like I said earlier, I don’t have any restrictions except what I’m allergic to. Then I simply stop eating when I’m comfortably full.

To lose weight by eating what you want, you need to eat without judgment or shame

It’s also key that you eat whatever your body is craving without judgment. You don’t have to judge and label foods anymore. You also don’t have to judge and label yourself for wanting to eat any foods.

I used to eat and feel a lot of shame because I kept telling myself I should be eating healthy, I should be avoiding foods that are unhealthy. I had these long mental lists in my head of what those food were, how many calories each one had, along with how long I’d have to go to the gym to work off any food if I wanted to cheat. I also felt weak-willed and like a failure because I couldn’t avoid entire categories of food long-term.

Now I don’t do any of that. I’m here to tell you that you can eat without shame.

I’ve been eating this way for the past decade because I needed to heal the crazy-making behavior I was having around food. Before I started my final weight-loss journey 10 years ago, I was afraid of food. I also felt like there was something wrong with me because no diet worked for me long-term. I could always get the weight off; I could just never keep it off.

The problem wasn’t me and if you’re struggling with dieting, the problem isn’t you. The problem is what you think about food and its purpose in your life. The way to get your power back is to listen to your body and trust it. That’s what I did. You can and need to do the same.

To lose weight by eating what you want, believe that food only has one role in your life

The reason I can eat whatever I want is twofold:

1. I look at food as fuel for my body so I can thrive.
2. I did the work on myself to understand why I was turning to food to fix my life and the reasons behind why I was putting food into a role in my life where it just never belonged.

Once you do the work of understanding why you’re using food in a way it was never intended to be used, (like to comfort or numb yourself, to make yourself feel brave, to give you something to do when you’re bored, and the list goes on) then you’ll be able to eat whatever you want too within the bounds of hunger and fullness.

Get off the diet-go-round. Get on with your life.^®

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My weight loss transformation & how it can help you lose weight by eating what you want

You absolutely can break the diet cycle. I got free. Your life can be that way too.

I made my own path because I needed to get myself out of the crazy-making behavior I was having around food. I needed:

• no more dieting.
• no more restrictive eating.
• no weighing and measuring food.
• no off-limit foods.
• no more judgment around food.
• no more trying to figure out healthy eating or just what healthy foods to eat.
• no more judging my self-worth based on the scale.
• no more you’re-not-doing-it-perfectly diet rules that were only fueling my constant thinking about and obsession with food.

I needed to stop: searching for weight loss tips, wondering how to lose belly fat fast or how to lose weight fast, worrying about how to eat healthy or finding healthy snacks for weight loss, coming up with yet another healthy eating plan, trying to have quick weight loss, or forcing myself onto yet another weight loss diet. What I needed instead was to find, out of all the weight loss programs out there, the best weight loss program for me. Turns out, the best way to lose weight was to find out what works for me and do that.

• I’ve lost 160+ pounds naturally by simply trusting myself and listening to my intuition (mindful eating and eating intuitively).
• I have maintained that weight loss for 9 years and counting by trusting myself and listening to my intuition (mindful eating and intuitive eating).
• I no longer have any eating disorders, including bulimia (bulimia nervosa) and binge eating disorder (compulsive overeating).
• I no longer have a fear of food.

Just imagine what you could be doing with your life if you’d just commit to having your own before and after weight loss success story. You could be: following your own dreams and reaching your own goals, cultivating your own passions, and making both your inner and outer worlds a more blissful and peaceful place.

I got that for my life. I want it for yours. I will teach you how.

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