Healthy Weight Loss in the New Year 

Losing weight is probably the most popular goal or New Years’ resolution people make 
between December and January. While weight loss makes sense not just from an 
aesthetic perspective, but a health one as well, most diets and New Years’ Resolutions 
around dieting will fail.

This report is going to help you with losing weight in the New Year, but take a different 
approach. It will talk about throwing conventional diets out the window, and finding a 
healthier way to lose weight and keep it off for good.



1. Why Diets Don’t Work

This can be a hard pill to swallow, and possibly one of the hardest parts of accepting 
this type of weight loss “method”. While diets do work for many people, the chance of 
them allowing for long-term weight loss where you keep it off is slim to none. 

There are many reasons for this, from having restrictions lead to binge eating, to how 
unrealistic it is to have so many rules about what you can and can’t eat. The fact is, if 
you want to lose weight in the healthiest way possible, you might want to reconsider 
being on a structured diet.


The Diet Mentality

First of all, you are dealing with the diet mentality, which can be really harmful for not 
just your mental health, but your physical health as well. By being on a diet with rules 
about what you are eating, you are classifying certain foods or nutrients as “good” and 
“bad”. Just by assigning this bad word to certain foods, you are creating a larger 
craving. Suddenly, you want nothing more than all these bad foods, even though before 
the diet, you would eat them only sparingly.

This is the diet mentality you want to break by giving up on these types of restrictive 
diets, and instead just focusing on fueling your body and staying nourished with the 
healthiest foods you can get your hands on.









Resulting Binge

Another thing that often happens when people go on diets is that they go through 
cyclical binges. You start off great, and almost get a type of high by sticking to your diet 
plan. You are sure this is going to be the one that helps you lose weight and keep it off 
for good.

But ultimately, you end up failing. There will come a day when you have a craving for 
the food you are told not to eat, and then you remind yourself you can’t have it, which 
increases the craving. Eventually, you give in and have a full-out binge session.

Then you go back on the diet, possibly even more of a restrictive one to erase the 
damage you just did, and the cycle repeats itself.


Stopping the Cycle

The only way to stop this unhealthy cycle, get back on track, and lose weight for good is 
to ditch the diet mentality. Start focusing more on foods that are healthy and will nourish 
your body, and suddenly your entire mindset about food and weight will change 
dramatically.

And the best part? You will lose weight in a healthy and natural way, that doesn’t feel 
difficult at all.



2. How Mindful Eating Can Help

Speaking of healthy weight loss and not sticking to diets, mindful eating can be really 
effective at helping you to lose weight and keep it off. With mindful eating, you actually 
pay attention to the entire eating experience. It isn’t about what you are eating, but 
HOW you are eating. You will be present during each meal, which really helps you to 
understand what nutrition you are feeding your body, and where to make changes. 


How Mindful Eating Works

Mindful eating works just like any other mindful practice you have. You are going to be 
completely present during your meal, appreciating every bite, paying attention to the 
experience, and most importantly, noticing how your body feels when you eat certain 
foods.

Most people eat very mindlessly. You might watch TV while eating chips out of a bag, or 
rush through dinner because you have planners afterward. This can cause you to get 
gas and bloating from eating too fast, eat the wrong foods for your body, and overeat. 

With mindful eating, you are paying attention to your body and really reveling in each 
bite, which in turn can allow you to see what foods your body loves, and which aren’t 
nourishing it much.


Using Mindful Eating to Lose Weight

The reason this helps you lose weight is all in your mentality and in the practice itself. 
Here are some reasons mindful eating can help you to lose weight:

You don’t overeat as much.
You start figuring out what fuels your body.
You understand more about nourishing your body with important nutrients.
By changing the eating habit, you don’t just snack all day long.
You learn to listen to your body’s cues.

Just give it a try! Sit quietly during your next meal, with no phone and no TV nearby. 
Focus on what you are eating, eat slowly and mindfully, and be present. You will notice 
just how amazing this experience can be.



3. What is Intuitive Eating?

The next part of healthy weight loss has to do with intuitive eating, which can also be 
combined with mindful eating. 

What is intuitive eating? This is where you learn how to listen to your body to decide 
what to eat and how much. Nothing is off the table, there are no restrictions, and there 
is no calorie counting, carb counting, or specific diets. 

It does take some practice, but when you learn how to give your body what it needs, 
you naturally lose weight and get to a really good mental place at the same time.


Listening to Your Body

You will first need to learn how to listen to your body, which is the most important part of 
intuitive eating, but also the most difficult. People who are going from yo-yo diets to this 
way of eating find many challenges. You fear gaining back all the weight you lost, and 
struggle with suddenly being allowed to eat whatever you want without guilt or regret.



The most important thing to remember is this – everything will even out and level out in 
time. In the beginning, you just focus on eating whatever you crave, not worrying about 
what or how much you eat. This is to heal your relationship with food and stop putting 
levels on everything.

Then you go through other stages of eating, like listening to your body, understanding 
the difference between satiety and being full, coming to terms with the feeling of hunger, 
understanding the hunger scale, and trying to figure out exactly what your body is 
craving.


It Doesn’t Happen Overnight

This is not a quick fix and you won’t start losing weight immediately. In fact, it can take 
longer to lose weight than most diets and workout plans, but you are looking at longevity 
here. You are healing your relationship with food, nourishing your body, and getting rid 
of that diet mentality.

What you need is patience, kindness, and the understanding that you will be healing 
your body from the inside out.


Reaching Your Body’s Natural Weight

Another thing to understand about intuitive eating is that it’s not about losing the most 
weight or being a certain size. When you follow it correctly, listen to your body, and eat 
whatever your body needs at the time, you will eventually reach your body’s natural 
weight. The weight and size it is meant to be, not the size you always wanted to be.



4. Finding Your Fitness Motivation

After you have figured out the diet aspect of your weight loss efforts, it is time to move 
on to fitness. This, as you know, makes up about 20% of your weight loss journey.

The problem isn’t starting a fitness program for most people, but keeping up with it. 
Here are some tips for finding what will motivate you to stick with it.


Changing Your Mindset About Fitness

While you are changing how you think about food and diets, you also want to change 
your mindset around exercise. Instead of thinking about it just for weight loss, think 
about it for your health. Get it into your head that you are working out for your health, 
including mental and physical health.

Remind yourself that it is good for your heart, it improves your strength and flexibility, it 
is wonderful for joint pain, it will help manage stress and reduce anxiety. There are 
many reasons to exercise aside from just losing or maintaining your weight, though 
those are definite bonuses of it.


Find Exercises You Love

You also want to have fun with your fitness routine, which means finding exercises you 
love to do. Even if you have always imagined exercise to be a chore, there is something 
out there for you, you just have to find it.

Experiment, try different classes, check out local boutique gyms in your area, think 
about something you have always wanted to do. Here are some options that go beyond 
the standard exercises:

Indoor rock climbing
Tai chi
Yoga or Pilates
Dance classes
Biking


Stop Feeling Forced to Exercise

You don’t want to feel like you are forced to exercise, otherwise it will keep feeling like a 
chore, and eventually you will give up. Change your entire mindset around fitness. Think 
of it as something that is great for your body, will give you energy, and will help with 
your mental health and wellness.


With these simple changes, you can start working on improving your overall health and 
wellbeing. You will suddenly have less stress, stronger muscles, and yes, less weight 
on your body. 

You want to develop daily healthy habits, from drinking more water and fueling your 
body with healthy foods, to making sure you get regular physical activity. This is what 
will make a difference – this is who you will lose weight this year and actually keep it off.



