Charlotte Carroll - Eat Yourself Thin

Eat

Yourself
Thin

CHARLOTTE CARROLL

WHITE OWL

First published in Great Britain in 2017 by

WHITE OWL

an imprint of

Pen and Sword Books Ltd

47 Church Street

Barnsley

South Yorkshire S70 2AS

Copyright Charlotte Carroll, 2017

ISBN 978 1 47387 879 2

eISBN 978 1 47387 881 5

Mobi ISBN 978 1 47387 880 8

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Firstly, I would like to thank you, the reader, for taking the first step towards changing your mind-set by purchasing this book.

Secondly, I would like to thank Heather Williams for giving me the opportunity to write this book and for all her help and support.

Finally, I would like to thank my partner, family and friends (especially the ones in the health and medical industry) for the support, advice and help given while researching and writing this book. You have all contributed to this with your confidence in me, and given me the push I needed to achieve another goal.

Thank you all!

I magine this: a friend is watching you weigh yourself on the bathroom scales. She can see you pulling faces and says, try again without your socks on, to which you dont know whether to laugh or cry. Does that sound familiar? Do you feel as if youve tried every diet there is? Dont worry, weve all been there. So many of my clients told me scales were their enemy, that I started to think up other methods I could use to change the way they felt about their weight, body image and, of course, food. Then it came to me: if many people struggle with diets that ask us to change our lifestyles and the food we consume, how about changing our attitudes instead. I dont mean we should change who we are as individuals, just that we could develop a positive attitude that works for each of us! And thats what I hope to achieve for YOU: I want to change your mind set to a positive one, because once you think positively then positive things will happen around you. By the end of this book you will have changed your outlook on food and appreciate what good nutrition does for the human body. So you are not just going on a diet to lose weight YOU are going on a lifestyle journey!

Each year a new diet comes out and, along with it, another book. So I did wonder whether I should be adding to an already over-crowded market, then I realised that these diets come and go; what does not change is the medical advice to consume less fat and sugar and to do more exercise. If these diets worked, we would all be happy and healthy and slim BUT we are not. These books are not answering our questions or giving us the advice we need to achieve our goals. I know that good nutrition is the key to change, but we need educating if we hope to see the positive changes I want to implement.

What will you gain from following this book? Not only will you lose weight, you will get lots more energy, strong immunity from endless sniffling colds and coughs, better concentration, glowing skin and hair and improved circulation. You will gain a positive mental attitude and be ready to smash some personal goals! Instead of looking at what you need to give up, think about what you will gain.

Each chapter breaks down the principles you may have previously found hard to understand. Each chapter contains HUMOUR and the MOTIVATION to help you on your journey. What is even better is that you can do all of it from the comfort of your own home: in the bath, cooking the dinner you may even be finishing the ironing with this book in one hand.

It may contain the dreaded weigh-in and it may contain ways of achieving your goal youve not thought of before but, with my help and support, it WILL help you develop into the person you want become which is a few pounds lighter!

Let us start our journey together and take a look at what we have to explore in the world of weight-loss.

W HY DO WE EAT ?

This may seem like a simple question and youre probably thinking: because we are hungry! But it is actually a serious one, which needs to be explored in more detail. Sometimes we eat without even realising its happening! We can eat through boredom, habit or to comfort ourselves emotionally. Sometimes, for example at special occasions, we eat out of politeness. We put weight on because we are eating the wrong foods. Maybe you have a medical condition, which causes weight gain, or are taking medication which gives the same result, or maybe you have issues with food and you cant help yourself. Do any of these sound familiar? We will go through some of them later in the book and look at how we can break our eating habits we will even discuss the struggle of eating out. Initially, though, we need to explore what a diet is and what we mean by healthy diets.

W HAT IS A DIET ?

A diet is simply the food we eat. It can be healthy or unhealthy, carnivorous or vegetarian, restricted by regional availability or broad enough to include food from all over the world. Some people follow a specific type of diet due to a medical condition or for religious reasons if this is you, please talk to your doctor before starting your weight-loss journey as he or she will help you balance your nutritional requirements.

For most people, however, diet means a weight-loss programme. This isnt wrong, but I prefer to call this kind of diet, a weight-loss journey. I find that when people choose to lose weight, it is not for a short period of time unless they are crash dieters.

Crash dieters are those who lose weight quickly for a holiday or special occasion and then moan, when it piles back on, that the diet hasnt worked. It wont, as they are not trying to maintain the results.

Those who choose to turn their journey into a lifestyle change want see longterm benefits to their bodyshape and health. They understand that weight-loss is not the two-week fix some diets out there claim, sustained weight-loss is changing how you think about food, the way you cook it and what you want to accomplish and maintain.

However we define diet, it is about making our own choices, about what we put in our mouths and, in the case of weight-loss, the specific eating plan we follow to achieve this.

Having a good diet means consuming the right balance of nutrients and not overeating. I am here to help you figure out the best weight-loss journey to meet your needs.