Let’s say you eat a cake with a hot drink at 11.00am every day. This is your mid morning snack. Now let’s say you decide not to eat that 11.00am cake anymore.
The cake has about 200 calories. On face value 200 calories does not seem that many. One cake does not seem that different. In terms of change it doesn’t seem that much.
This is where the Beach Diet approach can really work.
Back to the cake. You eat the cake at 11.00am everyday during the working week.
But not eating it means you are taking in 200 calories less per day. That’s 200 x 5 = 1000 calories per week. That’s 2,000 calories less every two weeks.
And that’s like eating nothing for one day every two weeks.
Now a lot of diets suggest eating a few calories for one, or two days every week or whatever, like the 5:2. But the Beach Diet approach is that the change you’re making is the equivalent of not eating anything one day, every two weeks. By the way, there’s no suggestion that you should eat nothing for one day! And we achieve this with just a relatively small behavioural change.
Making that behavioural change might be so much easier than changing every little thing about what you eat.