Your first steps towards sustainable weight loss: Week 1 challenge!

What are the first steps?  Week 1 challenge!

Ask yourself the following focus questions every time you want to eat something this week:

1.    Am I really hungry? Every time you feel hungry, ask yourself- am I really hungry or do I just feel like eating for other reasons?  If you are bored, tired, stressed or emotional – or just eating out of habit – is there something else you can do?  Take a nap, call a friend, have a shower or a massage, go for a walk, etc.  This is the first step to adopting the Homemade eating philosophy by reconnecting your hunger with your eating.

2.    What is the most healthy way to nourish my hunger? Secondly, if you really are hungry, search for the most healthful and nourishing way to satisfy your hunger.  You should not deprive yourself as that will only lead to binge eating later down the track.  If you truly are hungry, consider whether a piece or fruit, handful of nuts or a yoghurt could satisfy your hunger?  Don’t think about calories – focus solely on what healthy food you can provide your body so that you don’t feel hungry anymore.  By nourishing your body with healthful foods you will begin to fix your body systems from the inside so gradually you will have less cravings for ‘junk foods’ and require less food to satisfy your hunger – try it and see!

                                        Chloe enjoying Homemade heirloom tomato and basil with toasted lavash

What about counting calories?!

What about calorie counting?

Homemade is not a diet and does not promote calorie counting or food restrictions.  We know many of you have become so accustomed to trying to measure, control and restrict your eating in these ways that it can seem pretty scary to let go of these habits.

However, ask yourself these questions:

-       How has calorie counting and dieting served me in the past? 

-       Have they empowered me to sustainably lose weight and be as healthy as I can and should be?

-        Do they make me happy and enable me to live a fulfilling life from day to day?

-       Are they easy?

If not, then perhaps it is time to experiment with a different approach?  What have you got to lose?   

Instead of focusing on counting calories, we focus on nourishing your body with the most delicious and healthy foods - so you will be satisfied and lose weight sustainably without deprivation.

Which would you prefer?  Counting calories with Weight Watchers.....

Or eating delicious, fresh, healthy and satisfying homemade food?

Homemade program for sustainable weight loss & healthy lifestyle changes

How can I achieve sustainable weight loss?

The good news is that you can easily reverse the damage that following a poor diet in the past has done to your body systems in order to achieve sustainable weight loss and a stable, healthy body weight.  It takes time, patience and practice but the end result is freedom from carrying excess weight and the mental torture of constant yoyo dieting.

The Homemade weight loss program will teach you how to awaken, recalibrate and prime your body’s systems and your thinking so that losing weight and maintaining optimum health is no longer a battle of willpower and is something you can sustain and control with ease for the rest of your life.

How does Homemade for sustainable weight loss and optimum health work?

Our weight loss program is based on the following 3 simple principles:

1.    Cook your own food and know what goes into it!

2.    Eat natural, whole foods, as close as possible to the natural state.

3.    Practice the Homemade eating philosophy based on intuitive eating – which means learning to listen to your body and letting it guide you in what and how much to eat.

We know that making healthy lifestyle changes is hard – that is why we designed Homemade to make it easy, sustainable and fun to follow these principles.  You don’t need to be a chef or a nutrition expert because we help you to prepare a week’s worth or healthy, portion controlled meals in each session.  You will learn more about each of these principles and how to apply them in your life through the Homemade program.

 

                     Every week, we cook a week's worth of healthy, portion controlled meals
for each member to take home - in 2 hours! 
We provide all recipes, ingredients and cooking instruction

Why am I overweight….and why can’t I lose weight and keep it off?

 Your body is an incredible machine designed to maintain homeostasis or balance – and that includes your optimum weight and health. 

Unfortunately, by following a diet containing too many processed foods, simple carbohydrates and refined sugars and by eating for reasons other than hunger such as stress, boredom, being overly tired or emotional reasons, we constantly override our bodies’ incredible regulatory systems.  Over time, they start to break down.  Your metabolism, insulin regulation and hunger hormones stop working for you and start to work against you.  You don’t burn fat or calories as effectively, and you constantly crave sugar and simple carbohydrates – making you want to reach for a candy bar, bagel or fries!

Most people turn to diets, calorie counting or restricting particular foods to try to reverse their weight gain.  The problem is that this is basically pitting your willpower against your broken or sluggish body systems.  That is, you are telling your body not to eat when it is screaming at you to eat more.  This is why losing weight is hard.  And although willpower can win out for a while, it eventually fails - leading to binge eating or falling back into your old patterns, which can quickly undo any benefits (and more). 

                                     You can lose pounds by depriving yourself from food....

                              BUT then you put all the weight back on (and more!) when you stop