Having been around the block before it’s probably not news to you that meat and vegetables are a good idea. With all the podcasts, ebooks, seminars and summits out there, knowing WHAT to eat seems like the easy part – despite feeling a bit overwhelmed with where to start. The deeper and more important question and why you’re here reading this is, if I know what to eat, “WHY don’t I just do it!?”
Not being able to answer that question means you’re totally out of control of your daily food choices – someone else is in the driver’s seat and they’re drunk!
This often leads to regular junk food and sugar binges (who doesn’t love Ben & Jerry’s!?) and falling off the bandwagon of whichever diet you are trying to stay on. You probably remember a time you tried low fat, or weight watchers or something else and it worked for a little but it was so restrictive that it made you miserable (and starving!) and so you rebounded back to your normal way of eating only to gain the weight back, plus a few more.
And you wind up asking yourself, “Why can’t I just eat healthy?”. Across the last 70 years, mainstream nutrition education and diet culture has talked only about 1 thing – which food to eat – which at first, seems like the right answer. Yet in that time, the number of overweight and obese people has tripled since 1975.
Clearly just telling people what to eat has been a strategy that has a catastrophic failure rate.