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When is a diet not a diet?
When it doesn’t tell you what to eat, but you still lose weight
The diet industry is like an oil tanker.
It makes huge waves and sucks in a lot of overweight or obese people who yearn to lose weight. And there are a lot of overweight people, so there are myriad diets of all flavours, both simple and complex. So many, in fact, it makes your head spin.
And they all have one thing in common: they tell you what to eat.
But surely — you might say to me — it cannot be a diet if it doesn’t make suggestions, at least on what kinds of foods you should eat. But what’s the purpose of a diet? To lose weight, right. Well, you can lose weight without changing what you eat. Whether you will lose even more weight if it tells you what to eat depends upon how you eat now.
But that isn’t the purpose of this discussion.
Do you fit eating around your day?
We are all so busy: sleep, breakfast, travel, work, lunch, work, travel, dinner, play, winding down, bed. Phew! Our meals are forced into the gaps around the busyness of our working lives. What if you did it differently?
Fasting has been around for a long time. Its effect on our bodies are well known…
