by Jillian Foley, RDN,LDN~Nutritionista

Once I mentally comitted to starting a blog, I then started thinking about what questions people typically would have about weight loss. I know what questions people have for me during our nutrition sessions. But what would they ask google? Would they search to see if muscle can be built during weight losss? Would they look up if sugar makes you put on weight? I tried to put myself in this persons shoes and remember back before I was a dietitian. Just a normal girl trying to lose weight. That's when i realized I would have searched: How to lose weight.
The true scientific answer for how to lose weight is simple. Eat fewer calories than your body requires. In your bodies attempt to maintain normal function it will utilize fat stores as energy, thus resulting in fewer pounds and fewer inches. Being that 74% of U.S. adults are overweight or obese, per the National Institute of Health, we see that applying the laws of weight loss isn't so simple. As a dietitian who specializes in weight loss and as a person who has worked on losing, I could have told you that.

The reason we struggle with weight loss is because we are complex. Logically we should simply eat less, but we aren't logical in our attemps. We fail to understand our own habits and we confuse them with a lack of will power. We don't want to beat ourselves up so we choose not to look at calories or the scale. We remember past diets we've tried and keep trying to jump-back-on only to fail and swear to start again Monday. We judge food and we judge our cravings and appetites.
So I ask the question again. How to lose weight? Well, if we know the mathematical equation, yet we are still struggling to apply it. The answer then is to work on ourselves. Our habits, our emotions, our hunger, our choices, and our relationship with food. So that we can eventually get to a place mentally, where we are ok with the pricipals of weight loss and can apply it.
Jillian Foley is a Dietitian, but calls herself
a food therapist. She recognized early in
her career that it wasn't lack of knowledge
of food that was keeping patients from
reaching their goals, but lack of knowledge
of themselves. She helps you understand
your habits, triggers and motives around
food so you can figure it out and worry
about more important things!
Habit building tips! More of them!
I think you have to really want it. In my case, I was sick and tired of being sick and tired.
What is better for fat loss, weight training, cardio or a comb of both? How much time should you spend doing it?
I would like to see a blog on motivation and sticking to a plan.😍
I would love to see a blog post of yours on how to combat emotional eating.