I have literally changed the way I live and if you've got 5lbs or 100lbs to lose I'm telling you right now you need to quit looking for a quick fix if you want this to be a sustainable change.
When we gain weight we tend to make excuses…it’s an eating disorder, I have a thyroid problem, my metabolism is slow, it's genetic, I don't have time to exercise and so on, and so on. I’m not trying to make light of these situations, in fact I myself have a thyroid problem which has made it more difficult to lose weight, but the cold hard truth is that the majority of people are just plain lazy and that's what makes us FAT!
Does your weight go up and down and up and down and up and down? If you're sitting there shaking your head then you fall under the yo-yo dieting category (been there, done that). Your body is reacting to your dieting as though it were going through a famine by reducing your energy expenditure. The second you start to eat "normally" your body will start to store fat because it thinks you were previously starving. In most cases every hard earned pound lost returns and then some.
If you're serious about making a change the first thing you need to do is stop dieting. Then you need to realize everything you need to succeed is right there for you. Packaging on labels is a great place to start, do you actually know what you've been eating? Probably not.
No need to go to extremes and hunt down every gram of carbs or fat but I challenge you the next time you go grocery shopping to stop and take a moment and actually read the ingredients in those "healthy" granola bars you've been eating.
Stick around and I'll tell you how clean eating has literally changed my life!
