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The off-a-diet approach to nutrition is a process of disconnecting from the diet mentality and restoring a healthy eating behavior.
In more detail:
The main purpose of the off-a-diet approach to nutrition is physical, mental and emotional health. To achieve this goal, the approach is based on the following three main objectives:
Gradual return to our instinctive way of eating
Nutrition, exercise, and overall lifestyle with awareness and mindfulness
Nutritious way of eating with nutrient-dense foods that provide all the nutrients the body needs
In order for you to stop your diet journey and your unhealthy mentality around weight and eating, you need to work on some important areas of your everyday living.
You need to get rid of the diet mentality and the way you think about nutrition, foods, diets and everything else related. The first step is one of the hardest. You need to stop thinking about weight loss.
If you have a long dieting journey in your past, chances are that you have one or more signs of disordered eating behaviours. You need to recognize them, get to their roots and work on uprooting them. It will be the most important behaviour change you will make. And it will lay the foundation for building a new intuitive eater.
Your relationship with your body has probably been affected by the diet mentality. It is crucial for your recovery that you heal this relationship. You need to start taking care of your body and be grateful for all the things it can do for you. For a start, you need to stop punishing it and start listening to it.
If there is a connection in your mind between exercise and weight loss, it is important that you let go off it. You need to embrace body movement for all the great things that it can do for you and your health. You will try different types of exercise and turn the ones you like into a lifelong habit.
Although mindful eating is part of the eating behavior change, doing everything in your daily life with mindfulness can actually improve the quality of every aspect of your life. The modern ways of living have had their toll on our focus and awareness. We eat mindlessly, scroll mindlessly, watch mindlessly, even communicate mindlessly. We need to minimize multi-tasking and regain our focus.
In order to heal your relationship with food, you need to stop focusing on numbers such as calories. But that doesn’t mean that accurate nutrition knowledge can’t help you. Information such as nutrient density in foods and health-supportive nutrition facts can empower you in your intuitive eating journey.
Physical, mental and emotional health are interrelated. When one suffers, the others are affected. You need to take care of all the things that matter to the well-being of your mind and body, like sleep, stress management, social connections and anything else that needs your care.
FOR WOMEN OVER 40
The female body is greatly affected by the hormonal changes that occur in middle age. Those changes, combined with a pre-existing diet mentality and the societal challenges for women in midlife, can put great pressure on us and negatively affect the quality of our nutrition and our health.
The off-a-diet approach to nutrition can help us navigate this season of our lives with compassion and empathy towards ourselves, setting the foundations for a balanced and healthier rest of our lives.
Midlife is a great time for us women to start listening to our bodies and pay more attention to our relationship with food. Intuitive and mindful eating will help you cut through the noise of the abundance of information and understand what is right for you.
A balanced lifestyle, focused on feeling better and becoming stronger can help women navigate this challenging part of their lives much easier. Shifting your focus from just diet to other habits like sleep, exercise, rest, social life, will help you find your balance and take care of yourself in all ways that really matter.
Women in midlife have specific dietary needs that can support their hormone health, alleviate symptoms and protect their health from the effects of hormonal changes. Simple, real-life tips and easy-to-understand knowledge can help you build eating habits that will help you thrive through this next chapter of your life.
Women usually enter this phase of their lives with specific standards of beauty and socially acceptable body shapes and sizes in mind. These can burden them and make their body changes even more difficult to cope with. The off-a-diet approach can help you unhook your nutrition from numbers and sizes and get you focused on health and well-being.
