The Positive Eating Plan
The Best Diet is the One You Can Follow Forever
Losing weight is easy. Anyone can starve themselves and lose weight. However, the weight loss will stop, no matter how hard you try, on whatever diet. It’s not an indictment of your willpower. It is elementary math: if your weight loss continues perpetually, your weight will become zero.
Furthermore, the weight loss may not last. Six years after appearing on the show "The Biggest Loser", contestants regained much, if not all, of the weight . Losing weight is the process of deliberately knocking yourself out of balance physiologically, even psychologically. An unbalanced state of mind and body is not sustainable. You may get short-term results, but the real challenge starts when you must regain and maintain balance.
Ultimately, your goal is health and happiness. The Positive Eating Plan is a science-based framework to help you live a happy and healthy life with your ideal weight. It is not a diet. It’s a framework to help you live a happy and healthy life with your ideal weight. You are not eliminating unhealthy food from a bad diet. You are adding good food to build a wholesome consumption pattern. It’s designed to put you on a sustainable path to healthy eating, without the need to adhere to a strict diet or endure the stress that often accompanies it.
The Plan
This is the plan:
Plus two more rules:
- Try to eat fresh and in-season foods.
- Limit the total daily food intake. The limit is different for each individual. You are the best judge of how much is too much for you.
That’s it. No stressing over calorie counts for the exact ingredients, no feeling guilty for having that pot de crème, and no skipping the salad dressing.
Next, we will look at what exactly is in the categories.