
This first lesson regards Conscious Eating. We begin from HOW and WHAT you eat to proceed to WHY you eat and how to rearrange alla that!
The first session regards a unique tool and approach to understanding how hungry you are, how much food you need, what you should eat and how much satisfied and satiated you should become. In other words, beginning to transform yourself to your own "Dietician" by our first means, which regards "Eating Consciousness".
It includes videos, text and quizzes.
It takes 40 minutes up to 1 hour or more.
So get ready to conquer your own Athlos!
(In "Section 3" you will learn everything you need to know about what we eat and in which combinations, meaning your diet, so don't worry!)
Here you will find all the scientific resources and bibliography (references) behind DietAthlon!
Trying to calculate the caloric content of your diet, isn't the best way to start your journey.
You will find out the reasons later on. Remember, 12 main weekly Athlos and 12 main Diet Athlos to conquer!
In our first weekly Athlos, we should focus on our portions and our “eating-without-being-hungry” habit, along with the "eating until full" routine. Because those factors push us to weight gain or to not losing weight.
This session is a "must" for weight loss and weight maintenance and a great, unique tool for the Dietician to educate you in proper portions, eating awareness and much much more. A tool that is more convinient and more agile-easy to understand and use than the typical 0-10 Hunger-Satiety Scale. Then you will find out tour first 6 fundamental Diet Athlos!
Stop worrying about what to eat! In the next section you will get a Sample Menu with many meal suggestions + a standarized in portions Diet Menu!
The pleasure of eating, the enjoyment of food consumption, isn’t directly proportional to the amount of food you consume.
Less Is More! Key Point: Respect your food, eat slowly!
This tool will give you the opportunity to change how fast and how much you eat, as long as you give 2 seconds of conscious thinking prior eating, to yourself.
Your first, unique and of outmost importance tool
In order to understand level ‘3’ you need less food, in more time...and that’s the biggest catch of all because your problem is not so much what you eat, but the fact that you overeat
Reframe eating cues by recognizing level 4/5 habits and slowing down, replace 'I'm full' with 'I'm not truly hungry anymore,' and choose low-calorie foods like vegetables to support weight loss.
Try to remember that a proper frequency will lead to the proper quantity. The type of meal and combination plays also a huge role, for which you will learn about in the next Section
Eating slowly and mindfully is of outmost importance. You will find out about it in the lesson: "Mindful Eating". But, for now, concentrate in taking breaks whilst eating.
Log your intake in the diary, set the scale tool to zero, and notice how rushing through a meal affects fullness and how you compare your level on the scale.
Practice mindful eating by slowing down, chewing thoroughly, taking small bites, and using a diary scale at level 1 to judge hunger, noticing fullness after 20 minutes.
Assess how hunger cues and digestion influence deciding whether to eat the rest, using a level scale during a 30-minute lunch break to reflect on undigested food and satiety.
Explore how hunger cues and cravings drive eating decisions, and apply CBT strategies to manage eating when not hungry yet, and to prevent fat storage.
Follow the 1-3 pattern to plan meals at home, giving you time and mind to decide what you will eat, including prep for a one o’clock lunch with colleagues.
Track your hunger level before meals with the diary scale and log post-meal satisfaction to eat consciously and conquer your Athlos.
Writing is your most powerful tool
This area here is where you will find your daily Extra Help and Tasks throughout every week. Its the Athlopedia Area! Begin with the 1st-file-basics!
At the Athlopedias' Resources you will find useful and extra material. Your 12 Diet Athlos (6 here and another 6 in the next section) are crucial for your journey, since they concern main factors in your relationship with food.
Your first 14 Daily, Bonus and Extra Athlos are directly linked to your fundamental Diet Athlos. They are ment to be conqured everyday, so these 14 are for two weeks at least. Nevertheless, this is optional. You can follow them if and as you like. This week we begin with the first 7!
Your optional Extra Athlos will be waiting for you every week, here are the first 7!
In this course you will get a Sample Menu with many meal suggestions + a standarized in portions Diet Menu! Be patient!
In this lesson, we will clarify the fundamentals for you to eat in the best possibly way your body needs, in terms of nourishment, metabolism, satiety, stop cravings and more. Only this section lacks of video, so please be patient! Although its a section, it doesn't count to the weekly coachings, so no Daily, Bonus or Extra Athlos here. Take your time and practice it as long as you like! Here you will get a Sample Menu with many meal suggestions + a standarized in portions Diet Menu!
The way the Meditteranean Diet combines the food groups
This regards your ultimate Athlos, your Weight Loss Athlos!
Your Diary is your ultimate weapon (or tool)
This lesson is necessary for the Hunger Scale to work properly both as a volumetric AND a time-based tool. Also, keep in mind that your coaching comes in turn with a priority level, which means this is most important!
Practice mindful eating by savoring aromas and flavors, chewing slowly, and slowing meals to eat less while enjoying food, reflecting the 'savoir vivre' approach against overeating.
So this fluent fluctuation in the graphic is optimal.
But when we eat faster than we should, the whole senario changes.
Learn how and why you eat, not just what you eat, to prevent weight regain. Commit to eating annoyingly slowly as a lifelong habit, and you’ll stay slimmer.
Develop mindful eating by leaving your cutlery on the table between bites, eating in small bites, chewing thoroughly, and slowing down to savor food in harmony with you.
Try to practice these four steps of eating behaviour, introducing eating mindfulness in your life!
Keeping track of your progress is VERY important
This session defines the way you will interfere with High Energy Density foods, whether you consume them regularly as meals or snacks, or use them to treat and comfort yourself
Discover how trigger foods appear in processed items, with red and orange categories, while green foods are not triggers; learn to read ingredients for sugar, fat, and salt.
Discover how newer studies show you can enjoy red foods in smaller portions frequently and still lose weight by mastering triggers and shaping your diet and environments.
Flavor peaks by the second bite and then plateaus, boosting cravings and addiction despite gain. Practice mindful portions of red foods to embrace the less is more approach for wellbeing.
Gain practical strategies to avoid trigger foods and reshape your environment through a specific shopping approach, overcoming initial difficulty and gradually adapting.
Develop a strategy to resist treats in social and shopping environments and identify the three basic food categories that should be in every kitchen.
Recognize that no foods are good or bad, only behaviors; complete the four sessions for weight loss and maintenance, visit file area daily, and eat consciously to conquer your Athlos.
Keeping track of your progress
Conquer social eating by applying Athlo-coaching strategies to manage emotional-impulsive eating and develop a focused plan for dining out, fast food, buffets, and eating away from home.
Choose quantity and quality to determine weight outcomes, even when eating fast food. Learn to dine outside cautiously and apply these principles to overall wellbeing.
Challenge your portion misconceptions and boost eating consciousness to avoid overfilling your plate. Learn why most people fill about 92 percent of their plate and how to choose smaller portions.
Learn how seven rules turn 'less is more' into social eating success, letting you taste and eat freely when you follow each precondition at the table or buffet.
Keeping track of your progress
Embrace an active lifestyle with walking, stairs, gardening, biking, and swimming to stay healthy and slimmer, practiced systematically rather than chasing gym superstardom.
Develop a habit of regular physical activity to stay fitter and slimmer, and unlock greater aspects of yourself as your activity level increases.
Start by embracing cardio and training that raises your heart rate and breathing through activities like jogging, swimming, cycling, or basketball.
Discover your unique, better self by progressively pushing daily exercise with high-intensity intervals, boosting training performance and breaking limits day by day.
Keeping track of your progress
Explore why weight loss slows or stalls around weeks four to five and learn safe monthly weight loss ranges to manage expectations and stay motivated.
Target an 8-10% weight loss in the first 3-6 months, maintain the new weight for 3-6 months, then continue gradual losses toward better wellbeing.
Adopt a long-term perspective on weight problems and their treatment, avoiding crash diets that promise rapid loss, since weight is regained quickly and harms morale and self-confidence.
Adopt a marathon mindset for weight loss by going far, not fast, and tracking progress weekly on the same day after waking, celebrating Athlos conquered and aiming for the rest.
Recognize your unique body and mind, celebrate your achievements, and accept you are not a robot; weight loss may slow, so maintain effort to prevent regaining pounds.
You are not the number on a weight scale; you are a multifaceted, complex entity, and weight loss methods should promote health and feel good, not be unattainable or permanent.
Keeping track of your progress
Identify, accept, and change your emotional, impulsive, or comfort eating; link red foods, trigger foods, cravings, and binge eating as you consolidate learning toward a healthier, happier you.
Identify how at least two conditions in a temptation environment trigger overeating, using examples like ice cream, hunger, low self-esteem, and emotional states.
Keeping track of your progress
Remember where you started from and why you do this, and use revision and repetition with Battery of Decisiveness in Athlopedia to track pro cycles for weight loss and wellbeing.
Evaluate the positive and negative reasons in order of priority for continuing your quest toward the better you or giving it up, then decide which pole is strongest.
Adopt a thin positive mindset by reflecting on mountains you've already climbed, using past setbacks to build momentum and resilience for continuing your weight-loss journey.
Recognize your progress so far as a unique Athlos and a great achievement, and stay conscious of your motivations as you navigate weight loss.
Keeping track of your progress
DietAthlon is a unique, pioneering, weight loss coach, based on C.B.T. (Cognitive Behavioural Treatment) methods and the Mediterranean Diet consisting over 200 lectures based on over 200 scientific references and related bibliography! It suits health Experts but also people who want to improve their health, weight, nutrition and psychology on the long run!
DietAthlon will coach you weekly and step-by-step to conquer your own Athlos towards a slimmer, healthier, fitter and happier you, or to help your clients to reach those goals!
HOW IT WORKS
DietAthlon uses a -one of its kind- interactive coaching series, daily coaching goals and extra goals based on conscious and mindful eating, along with a unique nutrition and diet "build up" knowledge that regards:
No calorie counting,
No “magic” foods,
No food measuring or weighing,
No specific recipe requirements
No food restrictions
No deprivation
No endless food directories
No extreme or prolonged exercise
So that you can become the Dietician of YOURSELF, skipping any diet that you had in mind. It's all about FLEXIBILITY in eating! If you are a health expert, you will learn how to easily address and coach exactly upon your clients needs, breaking through any diet and behavioral issue they bring you.
If you are still wondering how can your diet and your habits affect you, well:
In order for your metabolism and homeostasis to work properly,
In order to be satisfied with your eating (that is, to have satiety) since the portions will be specific,
In order to get rid of cravings (and not succumb to unhelathy snacks, etc.),
In order to improve your mood biochemically through food ( believe it will happen after 3-4 days with this diet)
In order to deminish emotional and/or psychological eating
And finally in order to fully nourish yourself (to get what your body needs and to work properly)
You will be inspired to progress through unique behavioural and diet tools based on training your mind and body through the features below:
COACHING ATHLOS
Every Coaching (12 in total) consists of a set of unique video tutorials, quizzes, and texts, created to be fully interactive, comprehensive, and fun, preparing you to conquer its Weekly Coaching Athlos! So you had better meet their goals if you really want to lose weight!
DAILY, BONUS & EXTRA ATHLOS
In the same manner, your Daily and Bonus and Extra Athlos will be there for you to use daily, offering extra help and new tasks, contributing to your mindfulness and conscious training.
ATHLOPEDIA
Having a hard time with all those Athlos and their conquering? All the necessary information you will need plus extra material for every Coaching Athlos in order to conquer your own Athlos will be waiting for you here. Except your Diet Menu, you will receive over 100 updated related articles and dozens of hand-outs for your transformation!
CONQUER YOUR OWN ATHLOS
Know now that being fit, happy, and healthy isn’t a final destination; it is a way of life! Just like the 12 labors – 12 Athlos – were the means for Hercules to redeem himself, and not his journey’s end. So what are you waiting for? DietAthlon is here, your quest for the better YOU of a lifetime!