1. Dieting dangers and pitfalls
Ditch Your Diet

2. Dieting Dangers and pitfalls
In this lesson we will cover
The main aims of the dieting industry
Why diets don’t always work
The dangers of diet food
What to do instead

3. Diet industry aims You to lose weight Make you a free marketer
Buy their products
Keep you coming back

4. Why diets don’t always work
Based on
Calories
Restriction
Willpower
Metabolism slows
Feel deprived
Stop and the weight goes on
Not teaching you how to listen to your body and eat mindfully

5. The dangers of “diet food”
Miss essential vitamin and minerals
High salt
High sugar or sweetener
Low calorie
processed

6. The dangers of “diet food”
Meal
Calories
Breakfast: 40g Fruit and Fibre
200ml orange juice
245
Snack: Banana
103
Lunch: Healthy Living Sweet Chilli Chicken wrap, Special k Red Berry cereal bar, 250ml Lipton ice tea
358
Mid afternoon Snack: Innocent gorgeous green smoothie
116
Dinner: Healthy Living Pulled pork and wedges, small can Reduced salt and sugar Healthy Living baked beans
547
Total:
1369

7. The dangers of “diet food”
Macronutrients
Totals
Calories
1369
Fats
17.8g
Carbohydrates
230.2g
Sugars
107g
Proteins
60.7g

8. The dangers of diet food
Fats too low – fat soluble vitamins
Carbohydrates probably too high
Recommended guidelines 30g sugar per day
Protein too low

9. The dangers of “diet food”
Average woman needs 1400 calories day
Just to stay alive
Starvation mode
Internal stress
Hormone imbalance
cravings

10. What to do instead Real food Eat the rainbow Protein in every meal
Ideal Nutrition Plate