The #1 reason traditional diets fail and how to find lasting weight loss

Weight Watchers, Optavia, Noom, Paleo, Atkins, Whole 30: all of these diets tell you how to eat to lose weight. But what happens when the program ends? Or heaven forbid, you eat a bowl of pasta because it’s your favorite food ever and you just can’t live without it anymore? Do you know how to get back on track after that? Do you know why the scale changes? My guess is probably not. The reason that traditional diets like these fail you is that they don’t teach you how to eat healthily for a lifetime. They just want you to follow their rules.

For far too long women have learned about nutrition from diet culture. We were told: don’t eat carbs, they make you fat. Don’t eat red meat, it makes you fat. Don’t eat processed foods, that’s what is really making you fat. Don’t. Don’t. Don’t.

Nutrition seems like a complete mystery to us because we’re constantly fed conflicting information! After spending a lifetime learning that every food you like is going to either make you fat or give you cancer, you never learn how to eat healthily. You just learn that food is an enemy that you can’t beat.

Mama, it’s not your fault that you’re stuck in an endless dieting loop! You’ve never been taught how to eat healthy for a lifetime. You’ve only been taught how to diet. But that’s going to end today. Today I’m going to show you why you need to give up traditional diets to reach your health and weight loss goals. 

Lasting weight loss comes from healthy eating not dieting

The truth about nutrition is that you don’t need to cut out entire food groups to lose weight or even to live a healthy life. You can eat carbs, red meat, processed foods -  you can even drink and still live a healthy life! The key is learning how to eat all this in a balanced way.

A balanced diet doesn’t restrict. It isn’t focused on what you can’t have or what you can’t do. It’s focused on what you can have. You can have your favorite foods. You can enjoy a cocktail when you’re out at a girls' night. You can go out to dinner and have more than boiled chicken and steamed broccoli.

So why isn’t everyone eating a balanced diet if it means getting to enjoy their favorite foods while still hitting their goals? Because it’s not a one size fits all program!

In traditional diets, the rules are the same for everyone. But that doesn’t work because everyone is different. Everyone’s body has different needs and if you want to learn how to eat healthy and reach your goals, then you need an individualized nutritional plan.

And the best way that I’ve found to do this is through macro tracking.

Macro tracking teaches you what balance of macronutrients (protein, fat, and carbs) your body needs to reach your goals. And when you learn how to use those nutrients to reach your goals, you’re able to control your diet instead of having your diet control you!

One of the reasons women struggle with healthy eating is that they’re told they need to restrict their calorie intake. But they still have to show up as mamas, business owners, employees, wives, friends, daughters, sisters, etc. and they don’t have the energy to do it all! So, what happens? They end up binge eating because their bodies are exhausted and when your body gets to that point it kicks up cravings and screams at you until you feed it.

If you want to stop your body from screaming, then you have to feed it enough food.

You need to eat enough protein to put an end to constant cravings all day and feel full.

You need to eat enough fat to balance your hormones. 

You need to eat enough carbs to feel energized and can keep up with your busy life.

Food isn’t an enemy you need to constantly battle. Food is a tool you use to live your best life! And when you learn how to find that balance for yourself, you become an empowered woman who isn’t a slave to diet culture anymore. 

Food isn’t the key to weight loss: mindset is

All of that being said, food, or what you eat, isn’t the biggest hurdle in weight loss. The biggest struggle is how you think and feel about food. 

I could teach you all the science behind food and how to use it to fuel your body, but if you ignored working on your mind it wouldn’t make a difference. 

And I see this all the time when I talk to women who have tried every diet they can find, sometimes including macro tracking! They tell me that that they stuck to their macros and did everything they were supposed to but nothing changed.

When I hear this, I know what the real problem is. It’s their mindset.

They still believe that there are good and bad foods. They still think that they have to give in to cravings because it’s the only way to feel better when they’re sad/mad/stressed, etc. They believe that they have to eat the cookies their neighbor brought over or it will be rude.

There’s always an excuse that will pop up in your mind as to why you should eat outside of your nutritional boundaries. And you will use that excuse to justify why you “had to give in” and it will make you feel better for a moment or two. But it doesn’t serve you in the long run.

That’s why I am not just a nutritionist, but a life coach too. Because when you’re trying to change your life through nutrition it’s not just about the food. It’s so much more. 

Inside the Macros Made Easy program, I focus so much on helping my clients recognize how their thoughts are impacting their nutrition. When you start recognizing that your thoughts are controlling your actions it’s so much easier to stop falling for cravings. It’s easier to realize when you’re giving yourself permission to eat outside of your boundaries.

And you finally realize that it’s possible to change your thoughts before you act on them. This is something that a lot of people, myself included, were never taught! We were taught that your thoughts were outside of your control but it’s not true.

You are in control mama. Of everything. You’re in control of your thoughts. You’re in control of your actions. You’re in control of your food. You’re in control of your physical activity. You’re in control of your mood.

If you don’t like being stuck in diet culture, you have the power to change that. It just takes one decision: to invest in yourself. To invest in finally learning what a balanced diet looks like and how to manage your mind. And I can help you with both. Schedule a free discovery call to start taking control of your health and your life so that you can show up as the mama and woman that you dream of being.