With this simple trick you can lose weight easily.
Jenna Rizzo, a Georgia-based fitness coach who specializes in weight loss for women, offers a simple psychological tip to combat the yo-yo effect.
“Take a pen and paper and write down what you can add to your current diet: more protein, more fruits, more vegetables, more fiber,” Rizzo said in an 83-second clip this week. “Go into detail… Greek yogurt, chicken breast, raspberries, blueberries, strawberries, the more detail the better.”
She shared her own experience with irregular eating habits to support her argument for this health tip.
“I’ve tried every single diet under the sun – keto, intermittent fasting, calorie counting, you name it, I’ve probably done it,” she revealed.
She points out that she was usually able to maintain her healthy diet during the work week, but on Fridays it was free reign.
“I had a cheat meal and then it turned into a real cheat weekend,” she explained. “I would eat so much that I would literally be in so much physical pain – and then I would carry on.”
Rizzo explains that her binge eating episodes, which once led her to order two brunch dishes, eat an entire pizza and end the day with a pint of ice cream, stemmed from a mindset that associated unhealthy eating with restriction.
“My brain told me that these foods are limited and I need to eat as much of them as I can, when I can,” she said.
Rizzo recommends that people with similar tendencies adopt the abundance mindset that she has used to support her clients throughout her career.
She says making a list reduces feelings of deprivation.
“When you start focusing your mind on all the foods you can eat, you develop an abundance mentality toward food rather than a scarcity mentality,” she argued.
Rizzo emphasizes that this change in perspective contributes to consistency, clarity and long-term weight loss.
“Over time, you’ll feel a little more confident about eating…that will help you a lot in terms of consistency, and we know that if we want to lose weight, we have to be consistent,” she said.
Rizzo’s advice comes at a time when the American Heart Association warns that the obesity rate in the United States is expected to rise from 43.1 percent to 60.6 percent by 2050, largely due to unhealthy diets.
Obesity is associated with a higher risk of more than a dozen types of cancer.
