You'll always need to exercise some level of restraint, even after you lose the weight. ⠀

It's not possible to go back to your old habits (never cooking, eating out all the time, mindless eating while watching TV, etc.) and keep the weight off... ⠀

You cannot just have anything and everything offered to you all the time and without any regard of portion sizes. ⠀

Because food is constantly available and it's calorie dense, and low volume, and a big part of it is the lack of nutritional quality in the "easy and quick" highly available foods. ⠀

Food is engineered to do things on your brain and make you not want to stop, especially foods that have the combination of sugar, fat, and salt which have addictive-like qualities. ⠀

Another contributing problem is that we're moving less in general due to easy and convenient lifestyles. ⠀

That's not a problem our grandparents ever had. ⠀

Because our current environment is obesogenic - meaning if you go with the flow you're highly likely to become overweight. That's just the way it is. ⠀

But in return we have medicine, we can vote, and no Roman will take over your village and demand to take away your son to make him a Roman soldier who will one day come back to your village and fight against your people (this is what they did in the days of the Roman Empire...) ⠀

Given the choice, I know what I'd go for! ⠀

So yes, it's not easy. ⠀

But it's worth it. It's all about long-term quality of life, and most of the things that cause us to become overweight are short-term pleasures - they don't improve our life or make us feel any better afterwards! ⠀

It's up to you to weigh up what's worth it and what's not. ⠀

And if you have a goal to lose 30, 60 or 100lbs, I help moms lose weight by changing their habits. This means they lose ALL the weight (not just 5 or 10lbs and then gain it back), and they never gain weight again because they have created new habits.

You'll always need to exercise some level of restraint, even after you lose the weight. ⠀

It's not possible to go back to your old habits (never cooking, eating out all the time, mindless eating while watching TV, etc.) and keep the weight off... ⠀

You cannot just have anything and everything offered to you all the time and without any regard of portion sizes. ⠀

Because food is constantly available and it's calorie dense, and low volume, and a big part of it is the lack of nutritional quality in the "easy and quick" highly available foods. ⠀

Food is engineered to do things on your brain and make you not want to stop, especially foods that have the combination of sugar, fat, and salt which have addictive-like qualities. ⠀

Another contributing problem is that we're moving less in general due to easy and convenient lifestyles. ⠀

That's not a problem our grandparents ever had. ⠀

Because our current environment is obesogenic - meaning if you go with the flow you're highly likely to become overweight. That's just the way it is. ⠀

But in return we have medicine, we can vote, and no Roman will take over your village and demand to take away your son to make him a Roman soldier who will one day come back to your village and fight against your people (this is what they did in the days of the Roman Empire...) ⠀

Given the choice, I know what I'd go for! ⠀

So yes, it's not easy. ⠀

But it's worth it. It's all about long-term quality of life, and most of the things that cause us to become overweight are short-term pleasures - they don't improve our life or make us feel any better afterwards! ⠀

It's up to you to weigh up what's worth it and what's not. ⠀

And if you have a goal to lose 30, 60 or 100lbs, I help moms lose weight by changing their habits. This means they lose ALL the weight (not just 5 or 10lbs and then gain it back), and they never gain weight again because they have created new habits.