Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition. Listeners, let me ask you to think about something this morning.

Over recent years, what comes to mind when you think about the latest diet and weight loss

trends? Have you thought about them? Are there new diets that you've tried yourself over the last

few years and have maybe been really successful at

first. And they just weren't sustainable for you in the long term to keep your weight loss off.

Well, think about throughout your life, if you've been on a weight loss journey, what diets

have you tried that haven't worked long term? Okay, now that I got you

thinking early this morning, stay tuned because today we'll be discussing why those diets haven't

worked in the past. There's a way of eating that is a sustainable way of life and not a temporary

solution. The bonus is that you can still lose weight while feeling

satisfied. It's a thing and not feeling deprived. That's a thing. It's what we call the forever

diet. So our hope today is to change your way of thinking about the word diet. I'm Melanie Beasley. I'm a

registered and licensed dietitian. I've had a variety of nutrition experience over the past 35 years.

A good amount of my clients have come to me asking about weight loss, of course. And they wanted to know

what the best weight loss plan was. And more and more,

I would say, are interested in a weight loss plan that is going to benefit their health. And I know

from the research that temporary weight loss diets can lead to a slower metabolism and often binge eating. Let's face it, a person cannot sustain an

overly restricted diet for a very long period of time. We get that deprivation brain. Maybe you can do it

for a few weeks or a few months, but because our body is so intelligent, it doesn't allow us to continue this way.

So eventually, we fall off the diet and then usually we'll start binging and overeating

because we have missed these foods.

This is because our bodies sense starvation and our longing for nutrients. A highly restrictive diet is just

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