Most diets fail from the very beginning. ⚠️
It all comes down to habits.
Habit is defined as; a settled or regular tendency or practice, especially one that is hard to give up.
Breaking habits — especially the kind that trigger your brain's reward centers, like when you gorge on ice cream — takes time and effort.
Here are my top 8 strategies - I use with my clients - that I’ve adopted from clinical world class psychologists and moulded into my own Nutrition framework that can help you change your diet habits in a safe, sustainable way.
1. Identify your triggers. Is there a particular moment that you really want something?
2. Focus on why you want to change.
3. Enlist a friend's support or hire a coach. We all work better alongside someone.
4. Practice mindfulness. Take a moment to think.
5. Replace the habit with a different one. Like to snack in the evening? Keep it, don’t remove it.
6. Leave yourself reminders.
7. Prepare for slip ups. You will binge again. You will have a...