Just in case you missed it, in last week's post, I introduced a New Way To Diet by way of a new book I'm reading called Always Eat After 7 PM: The Revolutionary Rule-Breaking Diet That Lets You Enjoy Huge Dinners, Desserts, and Indulgent Snacks—While Burning Fat Overnight by Joel Marion. Bestselling author, Joel Marion, is a fitness expert and nutritionist debunking the myths underlying traditional dieting and offers a simple, highly effective weight loss program. The Always Eat After 7 pm Program "is a three-phase program that teaches you how to lose big by strategically eating big when you are naturally hungriest—in the evening. This may sound too good to be true, but let me assure you it is no gimmick. It’s all about making strategic and smart food swaps, and you can still eat your favorite foods.”
I've shared my long time struggle with weight-loss especially after having three children back to back. Losing the baby weight has been quite the struggle. I thought I'd be able to lose weight with breastfeeding this time around, and while I did in the very beginning, it was a matter of time before the pounds started to pack on.
Now that my daughter is almost one years old, I'm ready to reclaim my body back. More than anything, I really just want to be in the best shape of my life especially with the big 3-0 looming on the horizon in the next two years. I want to enter my 30's feeling like a totally new woman, having much more knowledge on how to eat, what foods to eat, and really just taking on a whole new lifestyle without worrying about restrictive diet plans that just leave me feeling hungry and falling back into the same bad eating habits.
As I've mentioned in my previous post diets with lots of restrictions have always been a downfall for me, particularly because I love food! I wanted to choose a program that would allow me to shed the baby weight I've been dying to lose for the past year all while still being able to eat some of the foods. I also needed something that would be easy to follow and fit in best with my busy lifestyle and follow some of my natural hunger cues. Most importantly, learning how and what to eat for weight-loss will help jumpstart some of my fitness goals.
In an interview with the author, Joel answers several questions about the program, which really just hit the nail on the head for me and made me feel comfortable in my decision to move forward.
When asked what inspired him to write the book, he answers, "After authoring 6 best selling books it was glaringly obvious there were 2 huge misconceptions about dieting that needed to be exposed. The first is that you can't eat late at night or before bed, which science now shows is NOT true. And second, you can't eat large portions that satisfy your natural instinct. This book solves both these problems by providing an evidence-based, enjoyable approach to dieting that can be used by any person to quickly achieve their weight loss goals."
So not only can I eat at night, which is when I usually I am most hungry, I don't have to skimp on my portion sizes either. Super important for me, considering I am still breastfeeding my one year old and don't wan't to restrict how much food I am able to eat.
We've all been on those roller coaster diets where we start, stop, start, and then stop again, so it was really important for me to do something that would fit in with my lifestyle and be easy to follow. I'm a busy mom of a four year old, two year old, and one year old - the easier it is to follow the more likely I am to stick with it.
When asked how difficult is the Always Eat After 7 PM program to follow, he says, "It's not. And that's exactly why I wrote the book. While any diet is never truly easy, it can be more enjoyable and much easier to adhere to when you understand how Always Eat After 7pm works because it caters to our bodies natural instincts."
When asked how difficult is the Always Eat After 7 PM program to follow, he says, "It's not. And that's exactly why I wrote the book. While any diet is never truly easy, it can be more enjoyable and much easier to adhere to when you understand how Always Eat After 7pm works because it caters to our bodies natural instincts."
His program makes dieting easy and eliminates 90% of reasons for resistance. The great thing about the Always Eat After 7 PM program is that you can eat from all of the major food groups, which was not only a surprising discovery for me, but for the author as well. When researching scientific data for the diet, he found that "almost everything my college education and certifications taught me was NOT grounded in published scientific research." Literally mind blowing, considering I've tried many many diets over the years and and followed what I thought was sound research, but just was not. The deeper I dive into this book,
Always Eat After 7 PM: The Revolutionary Rule-Breaking Diet That Lets You Enjoy Huge Dinners, Desserts, and Indulgent Snacks—While Burning Fat Overnight by Joel Marion is now available to purchase. Learn more about the book and how to purchase here.
Disclosure: I’ve partnered with “Always Eat After 7 PM” for the creation and sharing of this post. All opinions expressed below are my own.
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