"Full fat" food for fat loss

The other day, I was enjoying my berries, in what I think* was full-fat greek yoghurt the other day, and I came to a realisation:

*my portuguese is not as good as it used to be

Eating full fat food keeps me fuller for longer.

And it tastes so much better.

It made me think about how women often spend their money on foods with lower calories to try and trick their bodies into thinking they are getting a solid meal.

(Do you ever realise how ‘diet’ products are more expensive even though they contain less calories? i.e. less food?)

The thing is, just because your egg plant is spiralised, or your cauliflower looks like rice - this doesn’t stop your body needing a proper amount of carbs for fuel.

So many women put some lean protein on a bed of leaves and call it a meal.

Then they think that they have some sort of sugar addiction or a snack problem when they find themselves starving an hour later.

One of the simplest concepts I encourage my clients to follow is to ‘eat like an adult’.

This means no crazy fasting, or drinking shakes instead of eating a meal, or removing any food groups. It also means not eating a 6 pack of crisps or chocolate but instead, having 1 or 2 and leaving the rest.

Another important meaning of that is having three solid meals, with protein, fat and carbs (with a focus on fibre).

When you construct proper filling meals, rather than trying to make your meal as low-calorie as possible, you are able to go between meals without snacking, without feeing hungry and without constantly thinking what you are going to eat next.

Does that sound like you? Do you want help learning to trust food again?

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Thanks for reading,

Siobhan “skimmed milk is a scam” O’Hagan