New Year’s Resolutions often include diets. Many of us take the start of a new year to plan a change. Change what we eat. Change what we drink. Change how much we exercise.
The Beach-Diet approach is to work on behaviours. Most diets work on calories. The Beach-Diet doesn’t mean ignoring calories, it means working on behaviours first. Calorie intake is driven by behaviours.
Just take a moment to think about your eating behaviours.
Eating behaviours:
- What do you eat?
- How often do you eat?
- Do you eat between meals = snacks?
- What do you eat when snacking?
- How good are the calories you eat?
- How much do you need to eat?
- Do you over eat?
- What do you drink?
- When do you feel hungry?
Changing behaviours
If you’ve tried any diet you will probably know that any behavioural change is difficult. Changing what we do is a real challenge. What we do is based on habits. Things we do again and again. Things we’ve learnt as being good habits. Good in the sense of rewarding, but maybe not good for us.
The Beach-Diet is about working on the behaviours you want to change, in the long term. Yes today, yes tomorrow, but the Beach- Diet works on later this year and next year.
So the Beach-Diet is different because it works on behaviours. The idea is that it gives you the best chance of sticking with your New Year’s resolution.