Lifestyle Solutions

Lifestyle Solutions are the opposite of diets! You take a look at your personal life, what you love to eat, and how you use food in your life. You develop a new way of dealing with food, without deprivation. It is a process that involves learning to eat for health, but keeping your favorite foods in your life in moderation!

It is not a complicated diet menu that you hate, but learning to prepare healthy meals full of more vegetables. You will develop a plan to incorporate healthy diet habits into your life!

What is the process?

Evaluate the Following

• Eating Triggers

• Emotional Eating

• Type of Eater, or Food Personality

Understand and Learn About

• Calories

• Cooking From Scratch

• Eating Out

• Fiber

• Food Cravings

• Food Deprivation

• The Glycemic Index

• Grains

• Half Plate Rule

• Healthy Eating

• Healthy Meals

• The nutrition basics, such as Protein, Carbohydrates, and Fats

• Portion Control and Portion Distortion

• Processed Foods

• Sugar and Sugar Substitutes

• Weight Loss Mistakes - Top 10

• Different ways of Measuring Weight Loss Success

Journal

• Learn about the importance of Journaling

• Fill out a Food Journal for at least 7 days, and complete a Journal Evaluation Worksheet

Journal Evaluation and Plan

• Evaluate your Journal Evaluation Worksheet, and pinpoint areas of weakness and eating patterns. See Eating Patterns Awareness, and Eating Patterns Evaluation

• Develop a strategy for weak areas by using R.I.S.E. (Reduce, Increase, Substitute, Eliminate)

• Figure your Maintenance Calories

• Use the Meal Planning Chart to plan calories and meal ideas.

• Set up your personalized weight loss plan

• Plan three monthly changes

Incorporate Tips, Substitutions, and Habits

• Incorporate healthy diet habits

• Incorporate healthy grains in proper portions

• Incorporate more fruits and vegetables - see my Produce Tips section!
  

• Incorporate substitutions
  

• Incorporate tips
  

• Incorporate weight loss support teams in your life.

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This is a Lifestyle Solution, and a lifestyle change for health. It is not a diet that you will start and stop, but a new way of life.