30 Days of Truth: Day 17

The book that has changed my views on something recently is a book by Zoe Harcombe called Stop Counting Calories & Start Losing Weight.

After a year on Weight Watchers I was four months into the most rotten plateau I’ve ever experienced.  I was also disappointed in the lack of improvement in my health.  So my in laws suggested I read this book, as it had changed their lives, and everything soon changed for me as well.

It totally opened my eyes to how flawed the calorie counting diets system is, how I shouldn’t be afraid of healthy fats but should, in fact, fear the carbs, sugar and processed foods I’d been feeding myself.  It was a bit hard to get my head around it at first, as though I almost had to de-program myself to stop believing what has been fed to me (pardon the pun) my whole life.

Finding this book is the best thing that’s ever happened to me.  It’s helped me wipe Type 2 diabetes out of my life, lose weight and generally feel happier and healthier, something a lifetime of calorie counting diets has never been able to properly achieve.
It isn’t a lifestyle for everyone (although it should be), it requires a lot of hard work and it’s something you need to believe in before you can do it.  Unless you read it yourself and hear what she has to say, I don’t think it’s possible to follow the diet wholeheartedly.  You’ll never truly understand why you are doing it otherwise.

It’s hard, and I don’t always succeed at it but I know that the things she says are true, or at least MORE true than any of the bull I was learning from Weight Watchers.  It’s hard to imagine how I ever thought that eating as much pasta, potato or rice as I wanted for ‘points’ was ever a healthy diet.