A Little Background

"No Diet" is a term coined and used by people who have read books by Geneen Roth, Jane Hirschmann, Carol Munter, and a plethora of other authors whose books recommend an approach to overcoming overeating, ending binge eating, and finding peace with food that is different from the measure and weigh various amounts of this and that type of dieting that many of us grew up with.

Practicing a "No Diet Approach" doesn't mean throwing our collective hands up and walking away from the problem of overeating, bingeing and being overweight. Instead it means taking responsibility for the food issues we all have to one degree or another and finding ways to live in harmony with food.

I believe strongly in the approach because I have followed it and enjoyed the success of losing nearly a hundred pounds over the space of 5 years and keeping it off for nearly 2 years. During the time I practiced the no diet process that I use, I lost weight and was at peace with food. Though losing the weight was wonderful, and was the part that the outside world saw, the peace I felt with food, the lack of fear and guilt around eating was way better than the weight loss.

But I am back here, writing this blog because a few years ago (about three) life went a bit crazy. My husband's job grew unstable, his mother came to live with us, I started a business which took most every waking minute, and my focus on the simple aspects of no diet, eat when hungry, stop when satisfied, exercise, drink at least 2 litres of water, and journal every day got squeezed and I was following the tenets of my process less and less. The result was less and less peace with food...and eventually a return to the same overeating, bingeing, and disharmony with food that had plagued me before "No Diet." Of course, weight gain followed as well...and I am now starting anew...or perhaps entering a new phase of the journey...at a place where I have gained back most of the weight I lost.

It's time to make peace with the mistakes that led here....time to look at this as a bauble on the journey...and time to get back to doing the things that I know work for me.