Ep 096 - How can I lose weight with UnDieting?

<p>Welcome to How to Love Your Body, today we are talking about weight loss and how UnDieting can help with that.</p> <p>Be sure to grab your free worksheet at <a href='http://www.thebodylovesociety.com/96'>www.thebodylovesociety.com/96</a>  the link will be in the show notes so you can work through this with us today!</p> <p>So firstly, we would ask you - how can you lose weight with dieting?</p> <p>So far there is no proven way to PURSUE weight loss and keep it off….</p> <p>So this tells us that whether you are dieting or UnDieting - FOCUSING on the weight and potential weight loss isn’t going to get you very far.</p> <p>If you had dieted in the past and kept it off in a way that didn’t take over your life - you likely wouldn’t be listening to this podcast.</p> <p>So the moral of the story here is - there is NO proven way to actively pursue weight loss and have it be maintainable. </p> <p>Does this mean you can never lose weight and keep it off? NO</p> <p>Your body is brilliant and will always take care of you and do it’s thing. But when YOU try to decide it needs to be a different size and then take actions to manipulate it, it will backfire, Your body is very smart and will rebound if you try to restrict food to be thinner …</p> <p>Letting your body do its job is our best advice.</p> <p>So what is the point of UnDieting then? </p> <p> UnDieting is what to do with everything else that you actually do have some control over - like how you think and feel about food and your body and then of course that leads to how you eat and exercise.</p> <p>These things are the things you can work at and actually create lasting change - and then with these changes your body will decide what to do - lose weight, gain weight, stay the same…. </p> <p>So in UnDieting you will:</p> <ul><li style="font-weight:400;">Get out of the dieting mindset so you don't think about food all day anymore, you aren't afraid of a piece of chocolate cake and you don't feel like you were “so good” because you had a salad