My OB says I’m just about the only patient she has whose weight is not going up from year to year. Am I dieting? No, I’m eating. Others are thin and eating too, and like me, they used to be fat.
Naturally Thin recovery is not for everyone. Many people i’ve interviewed don’t want to apply the Naturally Thin principles because of the time it is likely to take to lose weight. Others become discouraged—understandably—when they try to learn to eat and do not lose weight for, perhaps three months or six months or a year or two years. There are also those who do their best to apply the principles but get stuck, for whatever reason. When I coach these individuals, I can almost always find trouble spots that can account for their struggles. Weight gain is enormously frustrating. But whatever you weigh, it’s possible that you could weigh more if you’d kept dieting.
Naturally Thin principles are difficult to apply. They are not like dieting, unfortunately, because most everyone can follow a diet pretty well. We all know the almost inevitable outcome of dieting. But the distinct advantage of dieting is the structure which helps people know exactly what to do. NT guidelines are not like that.
All this has brought me to consider framing my next book in a more structured fashion. There are just too many who get derailed. But there are those who recover and have very inspiring testimonials about being free or dieting and thin too. They have their stories and those stories reflect the Naturally Thin principles in personal language. I’m thinking these stories might be really helpful to those who are still struggling and those who need more structure in their approach to weight loss.
Your thoughts?
Jean