I’d like you to consider this – a healthy diet isn’t something you “go on” to lose weight. It is what you eat today, tomorrow and the rest of your life. If you want to make a change in your health and wellness, eat healthy food.

Watching TV and ordering the latest and greatest pill, proven to lose the most weight, from just the right spot, without any change in your diet or exercise habits - isn’t going to work. It seems like we would have that figured by now.

To make a sustainable change in your eating habits you will have to choose a way of eating that you enjoy. I eat 5 to 6 times per day and I look forward to each meal or snack.

Make it Tasty and Healthy

I know from personal experience and coaching other people that it’s easy to do what you like. No amount of willpower will make you do something you dislike over a long period of time.

For example, for breakfast you can make a healthy smoothie

that tastes great, is easy to make and fits into any schedule. You are able to have something that:

• supports your health
• leaves you feeling good afterwards
• you can look forward to again.

These type choices will serve you. You will be able to incorporate this into your lifestyle and stick with it because it’s easy and enjoyable.

Metabolic Typing

To feel good after a meal is very important. If you are bloated, sluggish, and have an upset stomach, you’ve made the wrong food choices.

One way to avoid this common error is to know and understand what your metabolic type is. MY WHAT? I know, I’d never heard of any of this before I studied it either.

You may be a protein type, a carb type, or a mixed type. This is one reason that people get different results from the same eating plan – we are not all the same type. Once you know your type it is much easier to plan a healthy diet that is in harmony with your body.

I am a mixed type (no comments from the back row please), meaning that either proteins or carbs suit me. I feel good no matter which one I eat. I have noticed that I feel much better eating one or the other at a meal.

If I combine a starchy type carb with a protein I don’t feel nearly as good as when I eat just one type food. Although, for me, the carbs in vegetables combine well with all foods.

For whatever reason I also can lose weight faster when I don’t eat proteins and carbohydrates (the more starchy ones) at the same time.

Another subject you may want to explore is eating according to your blood type. Dr. Peter D’Adamo wrote Eat Right for Your Type.

In it he explains which foods generally are more beneficial to different blood types.

Remember, you want to feel great after you’re done eating - so pay attention to how you feel! Use that and your knowledge of typing to eat a healthy diet.

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