14/12/2025
A diet is simply a tool.
No matter which approach you choose, most short term diets can help you lose around a stone. That is 14 pounds, or about 6.3 kilograms. It is also completely normal to regain some weight once the diet ends and you return to your usual eating habits. For many people, these diets are about feeling better in the short term, fitting into new clothes, or enjoying a holiday with more confidence.
Yo yo dieting refers to repeatedly losing weight and then gaining it back. This cycle places stress on the body and can slow metabolism over time. Each round of weight loss followed by regain can reduce metabolic efficiency, increase fat storage especially around the abdomen, disrupt hormones that control hunger, fullness and energy, increase inflammation and fatigue, and create emotional frustration with food.
Over time, the body learns to defend against weight loss, treating each diet as a temporary threat rather than a lasting change.
A simple diet like this is not designed to cure illness or replace medication. Its main benefit is often the feel good factor. However, if the real goal is lasting health and lifestyle change,
Honesty with yourself is essential.
Some foods may need to be removed completely. The foods that contributed to weight gain or poor health will not suddenly begin supporting your wellbeing just because calories are reduced.
Foods like lettuce, protein bars, lean meats, and jacket potatoes do contain nutrients, but contain matters. Lettuce and salads provide hydration, fibre, and micronutrients, but once you add processed toppings such as mayonnaise, creamy dressings, croutons, or sweet sauces, the health benefits are largely lost. These additions are often high in refined oils, sugars, and additives that overwhelm the nutritional value of the vegetables.
Raw vegetables are not always better. Some vegetables are harder to digest when eaten raw and can block nutrient absorption or irritate the gut. Cooking certain vegetables breaks down tough fibres and natural compounds, making nutrients easier to absorb and digestion easier. Many people tolerate cruciferous and root vegetables far better when they are cooked.
Lean meats with all natural fats removed can become nutritionally unbalanced when paired with sugary or highly processed pasta sauces. While the meal may look low fat or healthy, the refined carbohydrates and sugars can cause rapid rises in blood glucose. These changes can affect energy, mood, and heart rate, sometimes leading to agitation, tiredness, or brain fog shortly after eating.
Jacket potatoes provide carbohydrates, potassium, and fibre, but once margarine, low fat spreads, or other processed toppings are added, most of those benefits disappear. These products often interfere with blood sugar control and satiety, turning a simple food into a highly processed meal.
What looks healthy on the surface can easily become disruptive to the body once processing and additives are involved.
When a way of eating improves quality of life by reducing symptoms, improving mental clarity, lifting mood, and sometimes reducing the need for medication, it is no longer a diet. It becomes a lifestyle. If the approach delivers those results, it is working. If it does not improve how you feel or function, then it is not the right approach, regardless of weight loss.
The goal is not just weight loss. The goal is better health, better energy, and a better life.
We have helped many people learn, understand, and exceed expectations. Others chose not to act at the time and later returned when illness had progressed so far that medication dependence made change unsafe or impossible.
What we have always focused on is
creating a life that feels good on the inside,
not one that only looks good on the outside.
That difference changes
everything. 🎄❤️
