Five Steps to Break Out of Diet Prison
Every now and again you come across someone who seems to be speaking to you in a language you understand, maybe reminding you of some forgotten truth you've buried deep inside. Gillian Hood-Gabrielson is one of those people, awakening your inner connection to your natural appetite, that intuitive knowing that has been buried underneath all the silly diet rules and conditioning of your life to date. You know the ones, 'eat everything on your plate or you can't have dessert', 'think of all the starving children in (insert the country here)' or maybe rules like no carbs after lunch time, never let yourself get hungry, and on it goes.
Gillian is an expert in intuitive eating and author of Five Steps To Break Out Of Diet Prison. She has a Masters Degree in Exercise Physiology and certification as a Wellness Coach from the American College Of Sports Medicine and Well Coaches.
Even though she was fitness professional Gillian battled with disordered eating and chronic dieting. She struggled to give dieting advice to her clients because she knew it wasn't working for her. Gillian had become obsessed with her weight and body image. Then she met a dietitian who taught intuitive eating and was finally able to make her peace with food and rid herself of her obsession, lose the weight and keep it off whilst eating the food she wanted. Gillian then re-designed her business to focus on teaching other how to eat intuitively.
One of Gillian's programs is call 'Five Steps to Break out of Diet Prison' I had the privilege of interviewing Gillian recently and she shared these steps with me.
Step one is recognising that diets do not work. Over time the number of people able to maintain weight loss after dieting is decreasing, in fact the vast majority of dieters not only gain the weight shed but actually gain that and more. One reason for this is "diet deprivation backlash." Most diets restrict certain foods and the more you deprive yourself the stronger your cravings become, this perpetuates the cycle of overeating leading to guilt, shame and weight gain thus more guilt and more dieting.
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