Nutrition for Weight Loss - What do you know about it?

If you are trying to lose weight, I bet you know a lot about what you should and should not eat.  You may know the calorie content of all sorts of foods.  You know what foods are good for you and what foods are bad for you.  Most people I come across that are trying to lose weight know almost more than I do about nutrition - and I'm a Certified Holistic Nutritionist.

BUT, how are your weight loss efforts going?

Yes I'm a Holistic Nutritionist, but I am also a Certified Weight Loss Coach.... and here is what I know.
It does not matter how much you know about nutrition, if you are over eating or emotionally eating, you are not going to lose the weight.  If you are not eating because you are physically hungry, then food is not going to solve your problem.

How many diets have you tried?   A standard question I ask my clients is how successful have they been on the previous diets they have tried.  I usually get an answer similar to;  I did very well on (whatever diet they did), but since I went off the diet I gained the weight back.

See the problem here?  The key phrase is:  since I went off the diet I gained weight back.  The part they leave out is they usually gain back more weight than they originally lost.  So in essence they have gone backwards in their weight loss efforts.

Diets are just not sustainable.  That is the bottom line and this is why diets have a 98% long term failure rate.  98% failure rate but yet people keep dieting.  There is a quote by Albert Einstein that says, "Insanity is going the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."  Dieting is insanity, plain and simple.

So I say, stop being insane!  I teach people how to lose weight without dieting.  Sounds good doesn't it?  But why do people not jump on board and learn how to lose weight without dieting?  Funny thing about human behavior is that humans will work really hard to keep up with what they are familiar with (no matter how bad it is), but will only put in half as much effort to change a practiced habit.  This habit in our case is over eating.

Everyone is looking for the quick fix.  Many say give me the 10 day diet that promises me to lose 30 lbs.  But at what cost?  This kind of extreme dieting and weight regain, mess up our metabolism, and leads us well down the path to obesity.  So is the quick fix, what you really want?

I suggest taking the path less followed.  Yes it will take you a little longer, but while others are dieting and sliding back to even more weight gain, you will slowly plod ahead learning how to not overeat and still be happy that you get to eat foods you love.  In 5 years time, you will be 30 lbs lighter, and your quick fix friends will likely be 30 lbs heavier than they are now.

How do you really want to lose weight?  Yes it is hard work creating a new habit.  But is it worth it to you?


Adriana Ellis is a Certified Weight Loss Coach who teaches people how to lose weight without dieting or deprivation.  Visit:  www.attunedws.com

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Am I Hungry? Mindful Eating Program & It's Not About the Scale...The Love Yourself Skinny Summit

If you don't already know I am a Licensed Am I Hungry?® Mindful Eating Facilitator.  I am offering a 8 Week Tele-Class starting Sunday January 17th.

If you are wanting to learn Mindful Eating through the Am I Hungry? Program, I have an Early Bird special of $100 off the program if you register before December 18th.

You will learn a whole new approach to health and weight loss, without dieting and without feeling deprived and no calorie counting, measuring or weighing food!

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Adriana Ellis is a Certified Weight Loss Coach and an Am I Hungry? Mindful Eating Program facilitator

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I Love Food, So I Just Can't Lose Weight

Not long ago I had a client that just couldn't stop over eating because she said she just loved food.

My question for her was if she loved food so much, how come she didn't act like she did?

Of course she came back with a huh?  

A person that truly loves food, will eat food slowly.  They will savour each and every bite, they will notice all the flavours in each bite.  Imagine if you were a wine connoisseur  you wouldn't just down the glass of wine in one shot.  You would smell it, you would take a sip and hold it in your mouth and let the flavours roll around your tongue.  This is similar to what a person who truly loves food would act like.

So next time you think you are loving a particular food, pretend you are a food connoisseur, and take your time.

Look at the food, smell the food, have small bites, really taste the food, notice how many flavours you can notice.  

Now that is love of food!

Here's to Mindfulness Over Emptiness

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Ask the Weight Loss Coach

When I'm out and about, I get people who ask me questions about weight loss without dieting.  I am sure if one person is asking, then there must be more who are interested in that answer as well.

SO, I'm asking YOU - Yes you, to ask me a question by emailing me at info@attunedws.com - for the subject line put:  Ask the Coach.  
I will be posting the answers on my e-newsletter and this blog.
Feel free to ask questions about weight loss, nutrition, or mindset to weight loss.

I would be happy to answer them for you!

One thing I would like people who are looking to lose weight to keep in mind.....  A quick fix is not always a permanent fix.  I work with my weight loss clients in a step by step manner that moves them in a comfortable way to get from where they are to where they want to go.   That means no food deprivation and still get to enjoy foods they love.

Do you have troubles going to sleep?

Not long ago a friend of mine was mentioning that she was having difficulty going to sleep at night.  So I asked her what does she do when she can’t go to sleep.  Her answer was watch TV until she is tired, which ends up being around 2:00am, and then she is tired the next day.

A little back ground information, this friend of mine is female and around 60 years of age.  Often women around this age do have troubles sleeping because of hormonal issues.  But in this case my friend is not suffering any other symptoms of hormonal imbalances, so I am chalking it up to something that almost all mothers who read how to raise a baby books know.  Stimulation before bedtime is not going to help your baby go to sleep.  Here I the thing…. This same advice applies for adults too.  Watching TV, playing video games, texting on your phone are all activities that stimulate the nervous system and make it hard to go to sleep.

So I suggested to my friend to try reading at least 30 minutes before bedtime, or listening to music, or some other activity other than something involving electronics or video for a minimum of 1 week.

Results:  She had troubles for the first two days, because it was out of her routine to not be watching TV before bedtime, so she struggled with that a bit.  But after that she started to sleep like a baby.  Every so often now she still has a night or two where she has troubles going to sleep, but most nights she does not have difficulty any longer.

Do you have troubles going to sleep at night?  It could be just as simple as turning off the electronics and stimulating activities… just as you would for a baby.

Do you Oil Pull?

Ok, for starters, what is oil pulling?  It is the latest health trend where you swish oil around in your mouth and then spit it out.   No not car oil!

Here is my story.  I read about oil pulling a while ago and about all the good health and dental benefits from this practice.  Now to back track a little, my husband was changing jobs, which meant we had no dental benefits at all for the next while.  I usually go to get my teeth cleaned at the dentist every 6 months as I get a large amount of tarter built up and my teeth start to yellow in that time.  So of course I’m starting to panic about how horrible my dental cleaning is going to be if I don’t go for a full year.   So I decided to give oil pulling a try.

What I did is use light virgin olive oil.  Some people use coconut oil, but that just wasn’t very palatable for me at all.   So I put about a teaspoon of olive oil in my mouth and started to swish it around my teeth.  The first time I just about gagged, having a thick oil in your mouth is not the greatest to start with.  I did get used to it and it does not bother me at all now.   I’d swish for about 4 minutes (I did this while I was putting my contacts in my eyes).  Then I’d spit it out.  I now spit in to a facial tissue and toss in the garbage, but when I first started I spit it out into the sink (kind of made a mess).  Then I would floss my teeth and brush my teeth like normal.  I only do the oil pulling once per day.

Well the results are:  After going twice as long as I ever have gone between dental cleanings, I have had the best checkup ever!  And hardly any plaque buildup on my teeth.  Not to mention my teeth were whiter.

So bottom line is this is now a practice I have incorporated into my daily routine, and I recommend you try it as well.  Your mouth and teeth will love you for it.

Group Weight Loss Coaching or One-to-one Weight Loss Coaching

Weight Loss is a big industry and Weight Loss Coaches are in high demand.  But what kind of Coaching is best for you?

I know from my own personal experience, some of the Big Name weight loss centers so called 'Coaches' are not that terrific.  I have personally been told by a so called 'Coach' that I had signed a contract saying I would stick to their program!  This was because I refused to measure my lettuce that I was using in my salads.  Let me just say, the incentive to continue with them, was not there.  I felt belittled and in my thinking... eating a lot of lettuce certainly did not make me fat.

But I digress, back to Groups or One-to-one weight loss coaching.  

I first of all recommend, hiring an Independent Weight Loss Coach.  These Independent Coaches are generally more understanding of your struggles and are not limited to the Company 'program', so are more able to work with you effectively in the way you as an individual may need.

Cost is a big difference between Group Weight Loss Coaching and One-to-one Weight Loss Coaching.  Often Independent Weight Loss Coaches use the same overall outline for their programs for either Group or One-to-one, but as a Group they can charge less because the Coach is committing less of their own time.  The down-fall of Group Weight Loss Coaching is customization.  With Groups it is not as easy to accommodate everyone's individual needs, which is another reason why the cost is lower with Group Weight Loss Coaching.   With One-to-one Weight Loss Coaching, the Coach works very close with the client and the program is individually tailored to the individual needs of that client.... but that is where the cost goes up.

Last thing to consider is confidentiality.  There are those who do not want to share anything (and sometimes personal stuff does come up) in a Group Setting.  If you do not want to share anything, then One-to-one Weight Loss Coaching may be the best solution for you.

So over all;  Group Weight Loss Coaching is much less cost, but possibly less effective, as well as you are sharing with a Group.  One-to-one Weight Loss Coaching may be more effective, but the cost is much higher, and anything you share is strictly between you and the Coach.

So what type of Weight Loss Coaching appeals to you most (Group or One-to-one)?  I would love to know.