Is it time to ditch the bathroom scales for good? Consider this. Say you’ve started a diet. You’ve been good… oh very good the past few days. All the hard work must…
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NON-DIET APPROACH
The non-diet approach is a way of providing nutritional guidance and correcting nutritional deficiencies without dieting. Rather than diets, which restrict calories and enforce strict food rules to lose weight, the non-diet approach is a more intuitive way to choose when and what to eat. It considers eating behaviour and incorporates both emotional and physical health.
The non-diet approach shifts the focus from weight loss to health, and on changing eating and lifestyle behaviours that can be sustained for life. This approach is supported by research that shows that by taking a non-diet approach, “patients often feel less guilt about eating, increase their enjoyment for food, become more aware of the physical signal of hunger and satiety and become less dissatisfied with their body shape and weight, plus negative feelings associated with overall appearance decrease” (Kausman et al., 2003).
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