Fear - Lean Habits For Lifelong Weight Loss

REGISTERED DIETITIAN, NUTRITION EXPERT AND
CO-AUTHOR OF RACING WEIGHT COOKBOOK

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I was training for the Olympics in cross-country skiing. In my twice-daily workouts, I imagined my dream coming true: I would race for Canada in my third Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

The only things that could stop me were my mental and physical health problems. For two years, Id had a very difficult relationship with food. I needed to find the balance between feelings and food in order to get my mind and body working together.

Enter nutrition coach extraordinaire Georgie Fear.

Georgie, with her inspiring physique and a thousand-watt smile, transformed my life, health and performance. My health today is a testament to the lasting change her work can bring, and the exciting fact that anyone can do it. Diets didnt work; Lean Habits did.

Excellent fueling is essential for high-performance sport. The word diet, with its connotation of futility, was never used on the ski team. However, measuring out 12 almonds as my fat allocation for a certain meal, or frying up a cup of egg whites and vegetables for breakfast certainly brings the word diet to mind. Some worked, some didnt.

The real problems came when, a couple years before the 2014 Olympics, a traumatic breakup with my then-boyfriend swept me up in a powerful current of negative emotion. For a year, I suffered bouts of bulimia that eventually destroyed my bodys ability to perform as a ski racer.

Thank goodness for Georgie Fear.

The first thing I noticed was the pure, flawless logic of Georgies advice. If my eating behaviors were in response to emotion, then attempting to solve them this way was akin to attempting to start my car engine by honking the horn: useless at best. In the case of my calamitous personal life, my responses made a bad situation worse.

With patience and compassion, Georgie guided me with easy-to-understand psychology and physiology as well as great anecdotes from her decades of coaching experience. She offered great support and frequent course corrections through setbacks, and my life was transformed.

The pages of this book contain everything you need to transform your life. The habits make so much sense and work so well, I know you can make lasting changes to your life. Diets dont work; Lean Habits does.

Its been a year since the end of my professional ski racing career, and the strength of the habits I cultivated now feel as undeniable as gravity. Im as happy with my lean habits as I am with the way my smallest jeans fit.

As for my dream? In February 2014 I skied across the snow of the Olympic cross-country stadium in Sochi, Russia, and achieved my dream. My mind and body were completely in sync. Lean Habits helped me live my dream and theyll help you with yours too.

All the best with your new habits,

Chandra

Lean Habits is a proven, evidence-based system for losing fat, one habit at a time. As opposed to a diet, which typically provides an overwhelming, uncomfortable and temporary weight-loss strategy, this habit-based weight-loss system utilizes research into what actually works to help achieve lifelong leanness. The Lean Habits system presented in this book capitalizes on the latest nutrition research, while integrating critical components of change psychology, positive psychology and the neurological basis of habit. One habit at a time, this book will coach you through adopting various nutritional and lifestyle habits. The Lean Habits system has already been proven tremendously successful by hundreds of clients I have worked with over the years, normal, everyday people just like you. The book youre holding right now will help you achieve the same life-changing results, without having to hire a professional weight-loss coach.

In each chapter, well focus on one Lean Habit, a behavior thats been proven to help people get and stay lean. Ill walk you through the practical steps involved in adopting the habit (What to Do) and show you how to keep track of your practice. Then Ill explain the rationale behind each one (Why Its Worth It), followed by a discussion on the mechanisms at work (How It Works). Potential challenges you may encounter will be discussed, as well as ways you can scale the habit upward or downward to tailor it to the perfect level of challenge for you. The Lean Habits system will develop more than just your eating skills; youll hone mental strategiesfor example, how to handle family dynamics at holiday dinners and manage emotional ups and downs without turning to food.