Why I Don’t Talk About Food (Even Though I Teach Weight Loss)

 
I’m often asked why I don’t talk about food. I mean, I’m all about weight loss—shouldn’t I be talking about food? 

In my opinion, food is very simple. Yes, we need to make changes to what we eat and how we prepare it, but food is only one piece of the puzzle. 

Despite the overwhelming amount of contradictory advice and eating styles out there, healthy eating—and eating in a way that supports long-term weight loss—is actually pretty simple. Not always easy, mind you… but we’ll talk more about that later. 

Honestly, what I eat day to day is pretty similar—as it is for most people. There’s nothing particularly exciting or “Instagrammable” about it. 

I’ve got no desire to invent mouth-watering gourmet meals. The whole point of Dietless Living® was to forget about food and focus on living. 

Every diet I was ever on made food the centre of the universe: 

• What I could and couldn’t eat 
  
• Weighing, measuring, and counting carbs, protein, fibre, and fats 
  
• When to eat, when not to eat 

When you stop and think about it, it’s kind of bizarre, isn’t it? 

The problem most of us have when we’re overweight is constantly thinking about food—craving it, fantasising about it, trying not to eat it. 

I felt tormented by food: 

• It was everywhere 
  
• It always looked and smelled so delicious 
  
• And I had to eat—so I couldn’t exactly go cold turkey (excuse the pun!) 

So isn’t it strange that the very thing we feel tormented by… is the thing we’re told to obsess over even more when trying to lose weight?  

That is no way to break an addiction, now is it?  

NO WONDER IT WAS SO HARD. 

So I said no more to diets and created Dietless Living®. I wanted to stop thinking about food as entertainment, and start thinking about it as fuel—for the life I wanted to live. If I thought about it at all. 

What I wanted was to eat and enjoy food that made me happy while my main focus was on living life and reach or at least use,  what potential and skills I had. 

My philosophy on food became – and still is - very simple: 

• Only eat when hungry, not when it’s “time” 
• 3 meals a day, lightest meal in the evening 
• No snacking  
• Eat for nutrition and satisfaction 
• Keep food simple – don’t overstimulate taste buds as that leads to overeating 
• More fruit and veg 
• Food diversity  
• Good protein – not powders 
• Keep reducing fast carbs 
• Good fats and oils  
• Reduce and eliminate yellow cheese 
• Eat food I love and food that is important to me 
• Reduce and eliminate where possible processed foods, sugars, junk food, preservatives 
• No artificial colours, sweeteners 
• No “treats”. I’m an adult not a small child or a pet. If I want cake or chocolate or something decadence I can have it – but first I will check in with myself
  
  • Is it what I want or what I like?
  • Am I hungry
  • Will I be happy I ate it 
  • Will my body be happy I ate it 
  • Will it satisfy me or will I want more (and more and more…) 
    
• Keep “plusing & minusing” as life changes 

The food we eat is only one part of the puzzle, it’s the last domino in a domino fall.  

So if we don’t work on changing the rest of the dominos, then ultimately, we can’t permanently change the way that last one falls, right? 

This is what Dietless Living® is ultimately about – every thing that is driving those food habits and obsessions. Because if we don’t, any changes you make to your food and exercise will ultimately succumb to habit relapse at some point. Either in 5 minutes or in 5 years.  

That’s why I don’t talk much about food. Not because it isn’t important—but because it’s not the thing. It’s the last thing. And if we make it the main thing, we stay stuck in the same old loop. Food becomes the focus instead of freedom. But when you work on everything behind the scenes—the thoughts, habits, triggers, patterns—then food gets to take its proper place in your life. It stops being the boss. It just becomes… food. 

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