It’s a warm(ish), second-to-last day of fall here on Long Island, and I write this to you from my parents’ home. Every Tuesday and Friday, I visit my hometown of Port Washington, and work with my grandmother on rehab from hip replacement surgery last summer, and my dad on improving his strength, tone and overall cardiovascular health.
Today, I want to talk about how to have your cake and eat it, too! About how you can avoid restrictive and starvation-based diets and STILL see the results that you want. It’s not as hard as you’d think…
Since we were kids, we were taught the simple moniker of ‘Eat less and exercise more’ in order to improve our health and to lose unwanted weight. Of course, if you’re reading this, chances are that you’ve tried this directive ad nauseam, and it’s never stuck! Perhaps you’re one of the lucky few who got to where you wanted to be, only to see all of the weight (and then some!) come back twice as fast as it took for you to lose it!!
I call this The Biggest Loser phenomenon. This phenomenon occurs when the deprivation of adequate nutrition is coupled with excessive durations of exercise. Folks who have a lot of weight to lose can see some very fast and promising results using this method, but when reality sets in a few months down the road, they won’t make the same time commitments to multiple hour-long workouts, or take the extreme restrictions on food to task any longer.
The result? A LONG spiral consisting of bumming and junk food, which will of course lead to the reacquisition of all the weight they’d worked so hard to lose in the first place!
So, how can you continue to see results without depriving yourself nutritionally, and working out for eight hours a day? By focusing on eating high QUALITY foods!
Nutrition is QUALITY OVER QUANTITY, people. Simple as that. There’s a healthy substitute for just about every poor food choice — Whether it be a brand, a meal delivery service, a recipe, or a replacement coming in whole food form.
Long story short, all you need to do to begin making better eating choices TODAY is to memorize the following two sentences: ‘Eat meats, non-starchy vegetables, raw nuts and seeds, low-glycemic fruits, little starch and no (added) sugar. Eat ONLY when hungry, and just to satisfy — NOT to stuff your face.’
That’s it! Breathe a sigh of relief. For once, good nutrition isn’t complicated and isn’t based on calories, portions or points. If you want to learn more about what I teach my Permanent Weight Loss clients on the nutrition side, check out www.weightlossbypete.com/foodguiderecipes.
Until tomorrow!
Sincerely,Pete Weintraubpete@weightlossbypete.com
P.S. I’d mentioned yesterday that I’d released my Holiday Recipe Guide. This guide has 14 different recipes for some of the most popular holiday favorites!
If you’re interested in getting a FREE copy once the Holiday Recipe Guide is ready, simply go to www.weightlossbypete.com/holidayrecipeguide, and tell me where to send your’s! You’ll receive an email right after that ;-)
Also, once you get your guide, I’m going to be issuing you a challenge! Winners of this challenge will get two FREE weeks of private nutrition coaching with me. To learn more, you have to get your guide first, so that link again is www.weightlossbypete.com/holidayrecipeguide.