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YOUR goal is to lose weight. YOU know what to eat. YOU cannot stick to your plan. WHY?

Are you tired of  riding the diet roller coaster?   Have you tried dieting using some of these?  The  ZONE Diet,  HGG Diet, Beverly Hills Diet or the DASH Diet?  Let's not forget my favorite, the Cabbage Soup Diet!  With these diets, yes you can be sucessful in your weight loss goal, but how long will it be before you are back to square one?  Most of these diet protocols are not lifestyle sustainable and your rebound is inevitable. Our reality is that the dilemma isn’t really about what you should be eating. Most people know what they should and should not eat. Healthy eating doesn’t vary as much as diet book authors would like you to think. Very few of such authors would argue that food quality doesn’t matter, that your diet shouldn’t consist of plenty of whole foods especially vegetables, fruits, and lean protein sources, or that you shouldn’t avoid the types of food you have a hard time digesting. As a Precision Nutrtion certified coac...

Diet

Diet Take a second objective look at the word itself.  DIE t.  For years I have been a proponent of diets and coaching my clients with tools believed to  be helpful in creating a lifestyle which would help them achieve the positive change they yearned for.  By checking the label, weighing and monitoring food intake we believed the end result would be success.  We put every bite of food we ate into an online diary that was back office monitored by me, their coach.  I would provide feedback and together we would work towards an end goal of positive change.  In addition exercise has always been a component of the programs. Did the program work?  Yes.  Was it sustainable?  In most cases no, it was not.  Statistics state 97% of weight loss is regained within 3 years and often it's more weight than what was originally lost.  All that effort and hard work down the drain! What does one do?  We start all over again and so the c...