“Changing the way I eat has been challenging, but sure worth the trouble. I’ve lost 40 pounds and no longer have heart burn and indigestion. I get to have lots of fun with my wife now. Thanks, HBH!” – Jim Z.
Weight loss – Why it can be challenging… Weight loss can be tricky! There are plenty of diets out there you can try to yield fast results in time for a wedding or other special event… but it’s very likely you will gain the weight back afterwards (and maybe a bit more). These diets aren’t sustainable. Our approach at Happy Belly Health is to get to the root cause of excess body fat. By working with a team of Certified Holistic Health Coaches with a functional medicine approach, you will discover more about the internal chemistry of your body. Often, the cause of weight loss resistance is hormonal (too much stress, suboptimal thyroid function, and/or excess estrogen), dietary (nutritional deficiencies and/or a dependence on refined flour and sugar), toxicity (environmental, dental, food, water, body and/or household cleaning products), lifestyle (a lack of sleep and/or physical activity), or digestive (food sensitivities, leaky gut, dysbiosis, excess inflammation, immune activation etc.).
Below are the tools you need to build a positive relationship to food and therefore your body. Be your own detective and contact us for additional support to get started on a sustainable, results-driven weight loss journey: What to eat:
Eat a varied diet rich in organic vegetables all colors of the rainbow, fresh fruit, sprouted nuts and seeds, sprouted legumes and whole grains, cold-pressed oils such as EVOO and raw coconut oil, organic ghee and butter from grass-fed cows, herbs, spices, fermented foods, seaweed, and high quality animal proteins. Note: A nutrient poor diet from heavily processed foods that are high glycemic and inflammatory is not going to make you look or feel your best.
When to eat:
-Adopt set meal times e.g. 8am breakfast, 12pm substantial lunch, 4pm snack, 8pm light dinner
-Avoid eating within 3 hours of bedtime e.g. eat dinner no later than 8pm if you go to bed at 11pm
-Try to “fast” between meals by avoiding unnecessary and habitual snacking (ideally each meal is balanced and substantial enough to comfortably get you through to the next one)
How to eat:
Eat slowly, chewing your food thoroughly without multi-tasking or distractions… put your cutlery down between bites, allow your body to “rest and digest”, pause and take a deep breath to calm the nervous system, engage the senses, create meal time rituals (setting the table, sitting down to eat, caring about ambience like background music and lighting etc.), hydrate between meals rather than during meals to aid digestion, wait at least 20 minutes after eating to register that you are indeed full and don’t need to go back for seconds.
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