When a person needs to lose a very large weight or health has failed, and the doctor demanded to revise the entire diet, one cannot do without a diet. In these cases, we are talking about significant changes that one way or another will affect both physiology and mental state. It just won't be - this is the first thing you need to understand. We'll have to take the utmost care in building new relationships with food. I hope my three recommendations will help you.
1. Keep a food diary
This advice is one of the most frequent (and, by the way, the most sensible), which is given to girls who want to lose a little weight. But for now, I suggest not counting calories, but discovering, through regular recording, the connection between the food you eat and your physical condition. In other words, the diary should be a tool with which you will measure the improvements that are taking place.
Suppose you need to cut down on fat due to pancreatic problems, and eat small and frequent meals. Record in a diary the day, time and amount of food eaten, and then describe the sensations in the body (lightness or heaviness in the stomach, nausea or, conversely, good condition, pain or comfort).
Doing this day after day, you will clearly see that the diet directly affects your well-being, and, therefore, it will be easier for you to keep within the framework of proper nutrition. Be sure to summarize in writing once a week: it took so many grams of weight, decreased pain, decreased bloating - let the notes become a weighty reason for pride.
2. Seek pleasure
No matter how strict the diet is, in no case should one go into asceticism. Carefully study what you can and cannot, find the most attractive among the allowed options and regularly buy or prepare for yourself what you love. For example, in the case of a gluten-free diet, you can order yourself a luxurious cake made with rice or buckwheat flour; when restricting food of animal origin, lean on your favorite exotic fruits, and when glucose and fast carbohydrates are banned, look for treats with sugar substitutes in stores.
However, remember one important point: food should not turn into a burdensome duty, otherwise there is a risk of falling out. Search for recipes, improve your culinary skills, try new products. Such a policy will require effort on your part, but in the long run it will brighten your life.
3. Plan
Yes, from now on you cannot intercept on the run or gobble up on a par with everyone at your grandmother's table, and this is very sad. But the diet shouldn't be more difficult than it was originally intended to be. This means that you should think ahead about where, when and what you will eat. Plans can be short-term - for a day, and long-term - for a week.
The latter relate to the purchase of groceries (try to fill the refrigerator to capacity with permitted food), and correlate daily plans with the general schedule. What will you take with you in the container to work? What to eat before training? In general, these are questions in which there are no trifles and on which your psychological well-being depends. So try to pull yourself together and approach the task from the position of a talented manager. And you will succeed!
