Chocolate and Beyond

Are you truly eating what you want?

I know that even now, over 15 months since I stopped dieting, I still struggle with eating truly what I want.

I still have so many little 'rules' floating around in my head that surface just as I'm walking past the cake aisle in the supermarket, or am about to choose carbohydrates over protein. Whilst the way I eat is freer than it ever has been before in my life, years of habits and regimes are hard to undo in a relative short space of time - at least compared to how many years of dieting I did.

But I do find that the less rules I have, the less likely I am to overeat or out on weight. It is when I try to follow some old 'dieting law' that is still lingering in the recesses of my mind and then mix it with another later, that weight tends to creep back on.

Top Tips for Dieting...???

Just thought I'd have a nosy on videojug - one of my favourite sites - to see what they say about diets.

The best film surprisingly is their fabulously deceptive Top Tips for Dieting, because the first tip on it is to not go on a diet, but to change your diet. Whilst the whole video doesn't necessarily follow the principles of intuitive eating, it is still a great move forward for people who want to beak the diet cycle; especially those who are looking for a new diet and will no doubt click on to a film that offers top tips for dieting.

Some people are not ready to give up dieting, and while intuitive eaters do not see any diet as the way forward, there are of course those diets which are more nutritionally sound, and those which are not. So, I found this little film What Makes A Fad Diet A Fad Diet interesting and useful for those who would like to learn more about extreme dieting.