Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat Review
Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat is the title as well as the advice of author Dr. Michelle May. This mental strategizing book focuses on the psychology of healthy eating. What's good for your weight is also good for your mind.
According to May, most dieters follow a "eat-repent-repeat cycle" of yo-yo dieting, as she once did. Food was the enemy to be purged, which only lasted so long until the mental strain and will-power of deprivation became too much. Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat attacks this cycle of unhealthy thinking by focusing on a mentally healthy approach to eating. Her big push is to improve your eating behaviors and your relationship with food, thereby allowing you to manage your long-term weight without highly restrictive diets.
Emotional eating is really the target of Dr. May. Food should be consumed in order to satisfy you both nutritionally as well as psychologically. Her ultimate goal is to help dieters slow down, eat instinctively and savor the taste and enjoyment of eating. To that end, there is no rigid rules, no calorie counting, no specific meal plan and no obsessing over different food strategies (low-carb versus low-fat versus vegetarian, and on and on). The basic framework is balanced nutrition that follows the Food Guide Pyramid, the universally endorsed food plan of most health professionals. Changes and strategies are meant to be made slowly and permanently, as in, for the rest of your life. Slow, permanent weight loss and improvement in blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar levels are to be expected.
Exercise and a general increase in physical activity is also a central tenet of Dr. May's plan. It is not meant as a punishment for overeating, or necessarily to burn calories per say, but for a broad range of health reasons, including bone strength, stress relief, and cardiovascular health.
The mental battle of lifestyle change is the only thing that really matters in long-term weight loss. Which makes it quite remarkable that so few diets and weight loss plans focus on it, making them a total waste of your time, money and energy. Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat is one of the the few.
