In clinical practice it was found that most of those wishing to lose weight are lost on the way (between diets), due to a lack of information from the dietician doctor.
Learn to be psychologists of themselves
- During a weight loss diet it is good to learn to assess any situation that could put your self-control at risk (for example, going shopping on an empty stomach!). In order not to make such mistakes, it is good to plan behavior strategies useful in different spurious situations in time. The most practical strategy is to keep a food diary on which to write down both what you eat and the emotions you feel, and the situations and places where you have eaten. From an accurate analysis of one's writings in general one discovers what the risk situations are and how to manage them correctly. By doing so, the diet will be a tool to get in touch with one's deepest "I", as well as a useful wellness tool!
Don't expect too much from yourself by turning the diet into an obsession.
- Very often the novice patients, who start a diet under the professional figure of the dietician, come across the meticulousness of following to the letter all that is written on the pages given by their dietician; this meticulousness creates in the patient feelings of guilt at the very least "sgarro". These are patients who meticulously count the calories of meals to be swallowed, the centimeters lost, the slightest movement of the scale hand. All these obsessive attentions soon lead to the boredom of the diet which will obviously be closed in the drawer after a few weeks. In these cases it is good to remind your clients that DIET is a new lifestyle, where it is normal to bargain! The efficacy of a diet, on the other hand, is not compromised by occasional small deficiencies. So what to do after a bad job? Surely you should not give rise to feelings of guilt that come out; it is useful to continue as if nothing had happened and above all not to try to compensate for the sgarro by fasting or reducing the caloric intake of the following day.
Talk to your dietician about your food tastes
- The first visit to the dietician has an extraordinary importance as regards the achievement of positive final results. In fact, the dietician will draw up a personalized diet based on personal tastes, avoiding drastic reductions and excessive deprivation. In fact, removing everything you like from a diet is counterproductive to the end result of the diet itself. If the diet is too rigid, our body and our soul completely lose control of the situation, increasing compensatory behaviors ("binge eating"). So it is useful to discuss with your dietician about your own food tastes, so that the dietician himself is able to include your favorite foods in the diet. This will serve as a further lesson for those who learn to eat even their beloved foods, but in moderation!
Learn to listen to your body
- Our body daily sends hundreds of signals to make us understand what it needs at that moment. For example, you often want to eat salty or sweet foods, depending on the season. Being able to capture and understand these signals is the bet that each subject should make with himself in order to start a balanced and healthy lifestyle.
From this short list of advice, it can be seen that the professional figure of the dietician is not limited only to the prescription of diet therapy, but goes further! The dietician must be the healthy carrier of the food principles that allow WELL-BEING. The dietician has the arduous task of teaching his clients to manage themselves in different situations. As I mentioned before, the diet should not be a simple swag of written pages full of food tricks and useful tips, but it must be the starting point of a new lifestyle to which any subject should approach to LIVE BETTER.
The diet therefore provides the opportunity to test one's body and mind and to learn a new dimension of MANGIA.
