episode 118: how fat loss happens without a diet
Today is episode 118 of The Diet Diaries and I’m talking about how fat loss happens without dieting.
I’ve talked about the skills that are part of this many times before, but today I’m getting more specific around exactly how those skills impact what, why and how you’re eating and how that connects to fat loss. Especially if you’re someone who is always feeling hungry even after eating.
We’ve always been told that there is one way to lose weight. A diet.
But as is often the case, there is always more than one way to get to a goal. And that’s what this is all about.
Here’s what I’m covering in episode 118:
The basic science behind fat loss
How skills are different than rules
The time frame you need be thinking about when it comes to long term fat loss
Two detailed examples of how fat loss happens as a result of practicing skills
The impact of our environment and the food available to us on fat loss
How bigger meals and fewer snacks can naturally reduce your overall intake
How slowing down when you eat can reduce your overall intake
This is all about learning how to better align what you’re eating with what your body actually needs, but without restriction, rigid rules or deprivation. When you use a skills based approach to eating you learn how to feel more at ease around food, you no longer obsess around every calorie and then you lose fat as a byproduct of that.
When you follow a diet, the ONLY goal is fat loss—which means you’ll finish that diet feeling just as stressed around food (and probably more) as you were before and the weight will come back on.
Meal timing is a HUGE opportunity for most people. Snacks in between meals are 100% causing you to over eat because snacks inherently aren’t filling, tend to be more processed and leave you wanting more. If you’re always feeling hungry even after eating, this will be a game changer for you.
And learning how to slow down at meals and take a pause before getting more food can be another simple shift that can ultimately reduce the overall amount of food you are eating. When we eat fast we never get a chance to feel full, notice if we’re enjoying what we’re eating or figure out how hungry we are—we just eat on autopilot.
Using one or two skills to begin to slow down and give yourself a little more time and space will likely cause you to eat less, but without any restriction, deprivation or rules.
I have a blog post that goes into these skills in tons of detail if you want to learn more! This post gives some really helpful specific examples around how eating bigger meals and smaller snacks can be a game changer for fat loss.