This year, resolve to think differently about your long-term health and wellness. Instead of starting a new diet, ditch the diet mentality!
2020: A new decade, and a new chance to change your life.
Maybe that sounds a little woo-woo, but what’s the New Year for if not a fresh start and a chance to re-evaluate the paths we’ve taken? If you feel like you haven’t treated yourself as well as you should have in the past year, this is your opportunity to make some positive changes.
You could make the same old resolutions you make (and break) every year. You could put yourself on some awful crash diet, feel deprived all January long, only to give up and go back to your old habits around mid-February.
OR, you could resolve to do this year a little differently: To finally, for the first time in your life, start thinking LESS about the scale or your dress size, and MORE about your long-term health goals and bigger motivations.
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IT’S TIME TO DITCH THE DIET CULTURE
Let’s be honest: Diet culture is awful for a lot of reasons. To start with the big-picture stuff, diet culture tricks women into obsessing over weight and physical appearance. It makes us feel like we’re supposed to look exactly the way we did when we were 17—despite the fact that we may be two or three decades and two or three kids removed from that part of our lives.
And don’t even get me started on how diet culture affects our daily habits, our self-esteem, and even our moods! Long story short, diet culture ultimately seeks to make perfectly normal women like you and me feel inadequate so that we’ll believe we need to be on whatever trendy-diet-of-the-moment if we want to be happy.
Excuse my french, but I call BS.
As someone who spent a LOT of years trying to diet and binge-exercise my way to long-term health, I can name about a zillion reasons why diets don’t work. For the sake of keeping this article positive, though, I’d rather move on to the really important part of this PSA . . .
IF DIETS DON’T WORK, THEN WHAT DOES?
Fair question! If the answer to all your health and nutrition related new year’s resolutions is to ditch the diet mindset, then what the heck are you supposed to do instead?
I teach my nutrition clients a super simple, manageable system called PFC Every 3. At its core, eating PFC Every 3 just means eating right-sized, healthy, balanced meals every three to four hours throughout the day.
Each meal should contain a healthy protein, fat, and carb (yes, carbs!). Choosing to eat this way (as opposed to consuming three larger, less intentional meals) will help keep your metabolism humming without ever giving you that hungry, deprived feeling that diets bring on.
Now, I could write a whole book around PFC Every 3, the science behind it, and my advice for making it work in your real life (you’re welcome to email me if you have questions about any of that!).
But for today, I want to leave you with a few thoughts around the FIRST thing you’ll need to change if you truly want to ditch the dieting hamster wheel in 2020.
THE DECISION TO CHANGE STARTS WITH YOU
If you’re ready to treat your body a little more kindly this year, that starts with a commitment to thinking more long-term about your health. Instead of focusing on losing 10 pounds by Valentine’s weekend, I challenge you to focus on:
- Drinking enough water today
- Eating more green veggies this week
- Taking a 30-minute walk after dinner
- Spending 10 minutes on your yoga mat before you prep for work tomorrow
- . . . Or anything else that leaves you feeling revitalized and ready to take on the world!
This week, reexamine the health goals you may have set for the new year. Ask yourself: Are these goals sustainable? Am I doing this because diet culture tells me I should, or am I doing this because it supports my long-term health and wellness? Am I willing to ditch the diet mindset?
Be honest with yourself in your responses to those questions, and allow that honesty to help you draw some conclusions around what your goals should *really* look like.
If you’d like some resources around setting healthy goals the right way and/or you’d like to learn more about my nutrition plan, feel free to check out my blog, Food for Thought. Or—if you’re really feeling inspired to make some big changes in your health this year—go ahead and visit my Thrive VIP community!
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Dawn
DAWN MCGEE
Dawn McGee is a certified and licensed Nutrition Evangelist and a long-time foodie, she focuses on both the health and joy of food as fuel for your body. She is a driving force in bringing education on healthy eating to more people through her community, my “Reclaim Your Life, One Bite at a Time” programs, and my book “365 Days of Healthy Living”. Her hope for you is that you live a life you love, without being hungry, feeling deprived, or giving up your glass
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