What is the best diet?

There are so many "diets" promoted these days that it is really difficult to decide which are "good" and which are "bad".

Essentially we shouldn't be looking for a "diet" at all in the usual weight-loss sense of the word. Rather it is much better to find a healthy approach to eating that we can adopt for life. That helps us to rule out many unsuitable or unhealthy plans: the test being that if we cannot picture eating that way for the rest of our lives then it is not for us! Anything that we do only for 7 days or 14 days or even 28 days cannot benefit us in the long term because once the length of the diet "plan" is up, we have nowhere to go except back to our old ways eventually.

So if there is one beneficial thought I can leave you with today, it is that before we embark upon any "weight-loss" or "healthy" eating plan we should test it by considering whether or not we can picture ourselves sticking to it forever. If we want to change our body then we have to change our eating habits.

As someone once said to me:

"If you always do what you have always done, you will always get what you have always got".

HOW TRUE!

p.s. I will be speaking at the Health and Healing Festival in York on Sunday 25th April. Do catch me there, I would be pleased to speak with you!