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“Is Your No-Diet Weight Loss Plan Just Another Restriction Scheme?”
Chances are, your “no-diet” plan is just a diet in disguise.
This article is devoted to helping you spot one — and understanding why that matters.
Tracking Your Food? That’s a Diet.
Last week, I taught an in-person real food cooking class, and one of the young women in attendance shared that she had joined a no-diet weight loss program that, wait for it… requires members to track everything they eat.
Umm, that’s a diet.
No matter how it’s framed — whether it’s called awareness or mindful eating — food tracking is built on temporary restriction. Sure, knowing what you eat is valuable (and can be done in more lasting ways), but that’s not the fundamental goal of logging your calories, macros, or portions.
The goal is to suppress your eating, which will last as long as you do the diet. No more, no less.
If you’ve been trying to lose weight for a while, you’ve likely participated in a few food suppression schemes (which is what diets should be called). But ask yourself:
