If there’s any time of year more popular than any other for dieting, this is it! 

It’s estimated that almost 50% of Americans will go on a diet come the New Year, and many of them will make resolutions to make it happen.  Yet 92% of them will fail!  Why?  Let’s just say dieting isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

Before GMO’s and excitotoxins (mostly found in fast food) were added to foods, creating fake hormones like SHBG’s which get stuck in fat tissue making it harder to lose weight, dieting was much simpler.  You could even say it worked!  But not anymore.    

Weight loss today has become much more complicated as a result of adulterated foods and ubiquitous so-called experts touting the virtues of self-starvation essentially by strictly encouraging you to cut calories and exercise more.  However, since dieters achieve lasting weight loss less than 1% of the time, weight loss now also requires a much more sophisticated approach. 

At first, it might seem unconventional NOT to follow a meal plan, restricting you to a certain amount of food per meal based on calorie count.  It may even seem scary, but [bctt tweet=”if you’re dieting again, take it as a sign that all the diets in the past have failed you”], because otherwise you wouldn’t be reading this in the first place.

To start the New Year off right, avoid these diet mishaps:

1. Dieting.  I have yet to meet someone who actually likes dieting.  Therefore, it’s doing you no good!  There is a science to the emotions related to weight loss, and as with anything, if you don’t absolutely love what you’re doing, stop doing it!  Negative emotions trigger stress chemistry throughout your body, which works against any form of natural weight loss.  When you feel stressed, all normal bodily functions like digestion, cognitive thinking, sleeping, and losing weight fly out the window, so it really does you no good to stress yourself out with torturous methods to slimdown like dieting.
    
2. Making resolutions.  Perhaps the least effective form of weight loss is to make resolutions.  What makes someone think all of a sudden come January 1^st, everything about the way they eat, their food choices and how much they exercise will change remains a mystery, but one fact remains, which is only 8% of resolutions actually stick and the stats plummet even further when you’re talking weight loss.  If you want a surefire way to set yourself up for failure, make New Year’s Resolutions.  But if you don’t, don’t.
    
3. Counting calories, not chemicals.  I've said it before, but it bears repeating – counting calories only serves to restrict you, makes you feel deprived, and ultimately your “I gotta have it” switch will override all rationalization otherwise and you’ll end up blowing your diet anyways.  Instead of counting calories, count chemicals!  With the array of unpronounceable ingredients in your food if you’re not careful, it’s more important to know what you’re eating nowadays versus how much.  If you can’t say it, don’t eat it!  Stick to simple foods with 1-5 ingredients and eventually, your weight will just take care of itself.
    
4. Eating gluten and dairy (when you should give them up instead). Ok I get it – they taste good.  But trying to defy your body’s internal (and external) warning signs that it doesn’t agree with what you’re eating will never work.  Skin rashes, bloating, weight GAIN, coughing, phlegm, inflammation, and more, all indicate a need for dietary modification, and there’s a good chance it’s due to gluten or dairy, or both.  A simple way to know if you need to eliminate them, in part or in whole, is by removing them from your diet for a minimum of 21 days and determining if you notice a difference when you reintroduce them over the course of about 3 days.  You may need to go without longer, as people’s reactions times can differ, but start with at least 3 weeks; you’ll eventually know if it’s enough time to recognize an allergy or not.
    
5. Not overcoming emotional eating first.  If you’re like most people, when you want to lose weight, you head straight to your local diet center or search the internet for the latest diet fad.  And all I can say to that is WRONG!  By far the biggest diet mistake people make when they want to lose weight is neglecting to work on the emotional aspect of eating.  Without it, you can never and will never stop eating when you’re truly not hungry for food, which makes it easy to see why you’ll never lose weight permanently either.  Emotional eating far surpasses any logical reasoning when you’re in the throes of an emotional eating binge, and trying to talk yourself out of it is useless. 

   Emotions are tied to survival, and your reaction to how you feel moment to moment is determined by how your present circumstances effect your thinking in relation to what you require to survive.  Therefore, if you think you need a particular food to live, no amount of calorie counting, meal planning, exercising, weighing yourself, or trying to talk yourself out of a craving will ever prevail.  Hire an expert to help you overcome emotional eating as it’s never an obvious block to losing weight yet makes losing weight impossible otherwise.

There’s a lot of confusing and contradictory information on the market about the fastest and easiest ways to lose weight, but fast and easy isn’t always better.  If you’re truly serious about it, and you’ve already tried all the diets out there, then diets clearly aren’t the solution. 

Make this year the year you finally get it right!  Get in a coaching program that targets detox, diet, digestion, emotions, and energy, and transform your body into one that makes you feel comfortable and confident instead of sluggish and stressed out!

You aren’t lazy, and you don’t need more willpower.  Holistic weight loss is where thin begins.

You can also grab your free copy of my 7-video eCourse on how to stop emotional eating just by clicking here below:

Love, 
Angela Minelli

Angela Minelli is an author, speaker and founder of Angela Minelli International, a heart-based global business serving purpose-driven everyday women and entrepreneurs whose self-image and weight issues are inhibiting their confidence and blocking them from pursuing their life’s passion. 

Angela's joy is in taking a stand for women who are living less than ideal lives, stopped by fear and doubt, which prevents them from stepping into their innate power and delivering their God-given genius to the world. Her coaching programs and products are designed for women with busy lifestyles yet allow for powerful transformation to take place within a small segment of time.  

As a natural health practitioner and digestive health specialist, Angela specializes in helping people overcome weight and energy issues through holistic, non-invasive protocols that address the root cause of their conditions, including adrenal fatigue, candida, thyroid disorders, and more.  

Explore the ideals that are the cornerstone of her work at angelaminelli.com.