I went on EVERY easy diet out there.  You name it, I did it!!!  I would not care how much it cost, if I thought it would ”fix me”, I paid it!

Every time I went on a new diet, I would have my last hoorah, (meaning the day before I started, I ate everything and anything I could) because I knew tomorrow, I started the torture of dieting and my life as I knew it, was ending (sounds dramatic, but that is how I felt about easy diets).

It was torture!  I hated not being able to eat what I wanted, measuring, weighing, cooking something for me and something else for my family!  WHY me, is something I thought constantly.

The pattern went like this…. I started on the diet and felt motivated, I would think about the diet and what I was “allowed to eat”, all day every day, it consumed me.

Initially, I would lose some weight and be feeling really excited, but then I would start getting off track, having a biscuit here and there because I was sick of feeling restricted, until ”something” would happen in my life and I would have the blow out of all blow outs, that usually went for days, and I would put all the weight back on, plus some.  All that hard work for weeks and weeks to blow it all in a matter of days.  I would feel like such a failure!!!!

Sound familiar?

If you want to keep weight off for life, and turn your body into a natural fat burner, you need to learn how to eat, great healthy food, whatever you choose, whenever you want.  It really is that simple.

Sound too good to be true?  Well it is not, you just need to re-educate yourself on what great healthy food is.

Let me give you two quick tips that you can use from today onwards to just get you started.

You need to be conscious of what you eat , so every time you go to eat something, starting from now, ask yourself, will this food heal or hurt me.

If  it will hurt you, don’t eat it, choose something yummy and healthy that will heal you (yes, healthy can be yummy).  Things like fruits, vegetables and healthy proteins will heal and repair your body.  Things that are high in fats and sugars and have next to no nutritional value, are going to hurt your body (in the long run).

So, by simply asking yourself this, it will make you conscious of what you eat, a huge start.

The other quick tip I have for you today is every time you feel hungry have a drink of water first!  I have so much to say about the importance of drinking enough water every day but for now, before you eat anything, have one big glass of water first.

Two really easy things to do to get you started…..

Yours in health,

Rebel.