diet strategies

PSYCHOLOGY OF DIETING

Dieting is hard. There is so much information out there. A lot of it is contradictory. Even in this article, you may find some concepts that differ from concepts you’ve read elsewhere. Let’s first discuss the most glaring issue as to why dieting can be hard for most.

ADDICTION
This is tough for people to hear. Especially if you’re a well-rounded individual who lives life responsibly. The sad truth is the way our foods are currently being made promotes sugar. Not just as a substance on its own, but hidden in many ways as well.

Refined foods are foods that are processed down to be as granular as sand. Simplex carbohydrates. Overconsumption of proteins. These are all things that either have the ability or will almost certainly convert to glucose (sugar) when absorbed by the body.

(NOTE: Protein is a complex subject when it comes to glucose conversion. This is only a problem when you overconsume proteins without the combination of resistance training. In essence, you want to give protein a reason to exist. If it has no purpose your body will convert it into glucose.)

This promotion of sugar leads to a perpetual spike in our blood glucose levels often beginning from childhood. Our bodies can handle this thanks to our insulin hormone but not forever. The continuous consumption of sugar without ever taking a break leads to your body craving it. You will become a sugar junkie.

IT ISN’T YOUR FAULT
Don’t let anybody make you feel like it is. You eat as you can afford. You eat based on the knowledge given. You eat based on what’s available. You eat habitually.

The food pyramids we were taught to follow from the 1970s had a higher emphasis on grains and a disregard for fats. Recent studies have come to prove how backward this is. Healthy fats are essential to good health and grains should be eaten in very low quantities.

It’s important not to beat yourself up over how you’ve eaten in the past. What is important is the future. It’s never too late. Knowledge is in the palm of your hand. It is time to put that one step forward and act on the new things you are learning.

SO WHERE TO START?
It’s best to grab a notepad and begin to write down your favorite foods. Don’t worry about healthiness during this step. Write down what tastes good to you.

Once your list is done, you can look at each food and start to omit things that don’t have healthy alternatives. To be honest, this isn’t much to worry about. You will be able to find a healthy alternative to almost every dish you like if you look hard enough.

Let’s say you like “Apple Jacks”. This is objectively a delicious cereal but as a health practitioner, it would be irresponsible to recommend this as a healthy meal. A healthy alternative would be “Magic Spoon”, a cereal that is high in protein with 0g of sugar. If “Apple Jacks” is a 10 out of 10 in taste, “Magic Spoon” is an 8. That’s a pretty good trade.

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Just one of many examples. Our entire recipe guide is dedicated to this philosophy.

COST OF EATING HEALTHY
Starting a new diet also comes with implications of a higher monthly food toll. This is exacerbated if you have a family to feed and care for as well.

Here’s the good news. Once you start eating a diet rich in nutrients you will find yourself less hungry throughout the day. When your diet has allowed you to become fat-adapted, a meal of 4 pasture-raised eggs, aged cheese, onions, grounded flax seed, and grass-fed hamburger (chopped), will have you full for an entire day. That meal is expensive if eaten three times in a day. However, you won’t be hungry enough to eat it that much.

Essentially it evens out over time. You simply eat through your food stores much slower because you don’t feel hunger throughout your day.

WHAT TYPES OF DIETS ARE OUT THERE?

• Carnivore
• Paleo
• Ketogenic
• Mediterranean
• Intermittent Fasting

There are many different types of diets out there. These are the 5 types we recommend with each having its own set of benefits. It’s important to choose the right one that fits your lifestyle the best. Also, feel free to experiment and combine them. People have combined the ketogenic diet with intermittent fasting. People have gone from carnivore to paleo and vice versa.

If you’ve become diabetic, carnivore is a great diet option. If you’ve recently discovered that you have cancer, the Mediterranean combined with intermittent fasting may provide substantial benefits to starving cancer.

LIFESTYLE CHANGE
Eating differently. Eating healthy. It is simply a lifestyle change. Something you want to commit yourself to. You owe it to yourself. Our site is designed to allow you to choose great-tasting ingredients and make great-tasting foods while sustaining that same blissfulness from the foods you’ve enjoyed up until this point.

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