RESET YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH FOOD
AND ACHIEVE SUSTAINABLE WEIGHT LOSS
The problem with dieting, or being restrictive in your eating habits, is that it isn’t sustainable over time. If you go off your eating plan, the weight will come back. Your attitude plays a massive role in your 
efforts, more than you may realize. If you are subscribing to a “good food vs bad food” philosophy, you may be infusing your day with negativity, stress, and pressure that is taking you even further away from your goals.
To achieve weight loss that lasts, you have to dig a little deeper! A big part of this is eating mindfully — thinking about cues such as hunger and fullness. When you eat can also have as much effect on your body clock as What you eat and How Much you eat. It’s making a decision to have a certain food or combination of foods while knowing how they will affect your mind, body and energy levels.
Let’s start with a few tools to help you Rest Your Food Mindset:
1. Adopt an “All Foods Fit” philosophy.
All foods provide nutrition — but in different amounts based on nutrient composition and quantity consumed. Adopting this “everything is A-okay” attitude will automatically help you learn to eat all foods in moderation and prevent you from feeling deprived and restricted from eating foods that happen to have made some magazines “do not eat” list.
Of course, All Foods Fit is not a green light to eat all foods, all the time, in any amount. That would be silly. Let me make the point this way: one meal without fresh vegetables will not affect your metabolism and body clock. But one week of restricting your calories or eating extra-large calzones and pints of Cherry Garcia certainly will. EVERYTHING IN MODERATION
2. Use neutral food language.
Foods are not “good” or “bad,” “clean” or “dirty.” If you remove these words from your vocabulary, you go a long way to eliminating the guilt and shame that can be associated with eating the foods you’ve labelled as “wrong.” The feelings of failure you associate with eating foods you’ve banned do far more to damage your weight loss efforts than the foods themselves. It is easy to give up after one perceived slip. Remember this one thing: foods are just foods. Some provide more nutrition than others!
3. Listen to your body.
Often a client will visit me and say she had a bad day and feels guilty because she had some chips at lunchtime or Dunkin’ Munchkins with her coffee at a friend’s place. “I was bad today,” clients will often say, or “I ate an Oreo.” Or “Ugh, I ate through all my points before noon, so I just gave up and ate my way through the rest of the day. What a loser. I’ve got no discipline!” Sound Familiar???
Change your focus from counting calories, using points, or using a scale as a way to determine your worth as a human being. Instead, listen to your body; Eat when you are hungry, Stop when you are full. If you choose to listen, your body it will tell what it needs to be healthy.
4. Don’t use foods as “treats.”
Once again, food is food. It provides your body with nutrients and fuel. It is not a rewards system. If you consider something to be a treat, or a reward, you are far more likely to overeat it. Instead, treat yourself in other ways. Buy yourself some flowers, take yourself on a mini vacation, go get a mani/pedi. You can, and should, reward your accomplishments — just don’t do it with food.
Source BodyRockTV