This blog post has been a long time in the making and I'm so excited to share it with you.
By this point you probably know that over the course of the past year and a half I have been totally committed to finding out what it really takes for me to lose weight on a plant based diet.
I went about this process by deciding that I needed to learn everything that Chef AJ had learned over the past twenty or so years in her quest to find peace with food. I figured why did I need to start from scratch when I've got access to someone who had already learned from the best?
In picking AJ's brain I learned some real nuggets and I'm finally going to share them with you!
I'm going to touch on four subjects in this and tomorrow's blog posts:
- Saying "Yes" When You Really Want to Say "No"
- Collecting Recipes and Purchasing New Cookbooks
- Subscribing to Food Porn Blogs
- Watching TV, Especially but not Limited to Cooking Shows and Cooking/Baking Competitions
One of the first revelations that I had when I began private coaching with Chef AJ was that I was a people pleaser. This tendency in my personality was causing me a lot of stress in my daily life and harm to my body (excess weight and extreme stress). Now, on the continuum of people pleasing, I can't say that I am the most pathetic, "doormatty" person out there--I'm certainly not. But I did begin to recognize that I have said "yes" to many people and situations in my life when what I really wanted to say was "no."
And when it comes to making everyday food choices, it turns out that saying "yes" when you really want to say "no" is like one of the single worst personality traits that you could possess if you want to lose weight and keep it off.
Why?
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