You Can Have Your Cake and Eat It… and Lose Weight Too
by Scott Tousignant · Filed Under: Motivation · Nutrition
Angie and I recorded a video for you that reveals how she eats, her mindset when it comes to indulging in tasty treats (daily), and how she is able to maintain a flat tummy and six pack abs without dieting.
Angie and I are very different in our approach to dieting. We eat nearly all the same foods, but I prefer to have a structured nutrition plan, or diet if you will, where as Angie prefers not to diet and live a more naturally thin lifestyle.
Speaking of Naturally Thin… Angie just finished reading Marna Thall’s book Naturally Thin Secrets and she kept saying, “Marna is describing me in this book.” We’ll be posting Angie’s review of the book soon.
Angie enjoys eating a few treats every day. Because she tells herself that she can have them, she avoids the feelings of deprivation. She can stop after having 2 or 3 cookies because she knows that she can have more tomorrow.
If Angie were to tell herself that she can’t have any treats today, those treats would constantly be on her mind and she would run the risk of binging.
It was really interesting to hear that the reason Angie stops after having 2 or 3 cookies is to avoid the feelings of guilt and the yukky feelings that come with eating too much junk.
There are definitely two primary forces that drive our actions… Gaining pleasure or avoiding pain. When it comes to over-indulging, Angie’s motivator is avoiding the pain of guilt and the sluggishness that comes with eating excessive amounts of junk food.
In future videos Angie will be sharing the foods that she eats more often and she’ll be picking my brain about why I enjoy following structured diet plans including my favorite program to follow, Tom Venuto’s Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle.
If you have specific nutrition, exercise, or motivation questions please do not hesitate to ask. We’ll be happy to answer them in our video broadcasts.
Have an absolutely amazing day!
To achieving your limitless potential,
Scott and Angie Tousignant
Really enjoyed the video…Unfortunatley, I am like you Scott, if I open a bag of chips I will eat most of them. Ice cream is my worst enemy, I could eat a whole carton at a sitting. I limit my treat days to once a week and restrain myself on my portions. My wife is like Angie, she eats what she wants when she wants and stays slim. Must be the genes!
Love it!! Making it a habit to eat healthy over all is a good tip..and just eating those little treats once a day so as not to feel deprived is awesome…It’s all about listening to your body and then to do what your body is telling you!
Nice video. That was a long train. It was fun to hear that classic American train whistle, nothing like the “beeeee baaarrrrp we get here.
I also find it very hard so stop if I start eating some biscuits. I’m better off not starting. My wife though can also just eat one piece of chocolate and feel that that is enough. I find I can tell if I have had enough unless I am bursting, so I have to limit the quantity I eat, by using a small plate, or looking, at the size of the portion, and knowing that that will be enough.
Cheers
Paul
I am like you too, Scott. I find it hard to only have a small amount. One thing I found to restrict my cravings for biscuits (Hobnobs/Oaties) was to crumble up two into my porridge for breakfast. It gives it texture and gives me a fix. I can then go through the rest of the day without any cravings.
Keep up the awesome work
Ed
I found that when I started my “healthy eating plan” about 13 months ago, I could eat 3-4 cookies a day (home made, which, IMO are not quite so harmful as store bought…maybe I’m wrong), I had a much easier time then when I started incorporating cheat days following by several long days of absolutey NO treats. I actually started binging, something I had NEVER done in the past! Then came the guilt, which is something I also hadn’t experience before. I would like to get back to that treat-myself-just-a-little-every-day mindset, but I’m really struggling with this. Angie, you kinda said that this is something you don’t even think about anymore…did you at one point make a point of saying, “I’m only going to treat myself once today” and was this difficult for you or did this come naturally to you? Any advice?
Mental habits. Retrain your mind, change your world.
Liked the video, thanks for posting it.
MJRamey
Excellent video both of you. Funny when I want to strip fat, I carb up quite hard at weekends and Wednesdays. The weekend feasting bumps my metabolism right up (I find it takes two days to fix it high), the Wednesday keeps it there, two days is what I find for me changes my bodies metabolic mode. The other four days I avoid carbs, never seems hard to do, and I lose 1-2lbs of fat per week.
Once I reach my goal, eating like Angie keeps me there and my brain adapts to both eating methods easily. Yes I have my slip up days when I’m out with friends etc. and a week or two back onto the original system gets me back to where I want to be.
I read all of your posts, Scott I love the fact you have your own ideas, and aren’t tied in with the “in crowd” but are prepared to go with what you find works for you, whoever generates the idea…………
Very interesting…I eat fairly unstructured as well, but mainly healthy and enjoy that much more than following something strict. Most people I talk to are the opposite though, so this was good to hear! Looking forward to learning more about how you eat Angie.
Proper Nutrition to Supplement Your Exercise Routine
How to Lose Weight Fast:
Fat burning exercises are all great. You can go for a nice jog, ride a bike, or go swimming. All of these things will help you burn calories and you will lose weight.
BUT…
Can you keep the weight off? Most people who struggle with weight loss, also struggle to keep the extra weight off for good. The problem is, while they are exercising regularly, they fail to put a proper nutrition plan in place.
If you want a lean healthy body, you need to do more than just exercise. You need to eat the right foods. You have to eat an adequate diet that includes healthy dietary fats. Fats are necessary as they are part of the cell membranes that go throughout the body.
If you eat healthy foods, your cellular processes will work normally. But if you eat unhealthy foods: those that are man-made processed, and chemically treated, you will find your cellular structure will break down from lack proper nutrition. Your cell structure will become impaired and your cells will have to work harder to compensate. When this happens, unfortunately, diseases occur.
Healthy eating also helps keep the body balanced. Hormone production is normal. Muscle building occurs at a normal rate and fat burning occurs. The vitamins and minerals our body consumes are absorbed and used for enzyme regulation.
We don’t eat healthy foods for various reasons. The first reason is because eating healthy is hard to do. The grocery store sells foods that are processed and full of junk. But they taste so good that we are tempted to buy them. The second reason is we were misled for many years to believe that good fats (those that are natural and unprocessed) have been removed from foods or were mixed in with bad foods. And the third reason is because we are lazy so we eat out. The restaurants we go to do not use the proper oils to cook with. They always go for the cheapest stuff.
If you want to develop a healthy body, you must learn to eat the right foods.
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