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By Chris McNeil founder of www.fitmenu.net
There is an epidemic of obesity and a nation on roller coaster diets. People cycle between eating fattening foods and sticking to the discipline of a “diet” to lose the unwanted weight. So they either feel guilty for eating something they enjoy or deprived for eating something for health. That’s frustrating. Fortunately, there is an alternate mindset to “sticking to your diet” that you can adopt if you choose.
Drop the Idea of “Good” and “Bad” Foods
The first thing to understand is that root of the problem is not a lack of discipline. It’s the belief that “there are good foods and bad foods”. If you think you might have that belief, I hope to help you consider an alternative way of thinking that may empower you to achieve a healthy weight and stay there if you choose to embrace it.
If it wasn’t good for something, you wouldn’t eat it!
In order to be successful at long term weight loss, you need to drop our idea that there are good and bad foods and replace it with the belief that all foods you eat are good, but for different purposes. Abolishing the concept of “forbidden foods” means they lose their emotional charge. When you consciously have them you can no longer unconsciously have them. The trick is balancing and integrating your eating motivations.
Integrating Enjoyment, Health, and Convenience
Some foods are good for nutrition, such as plain rice cakes. Other foods are good for enjoyment like chocolate. Some are quick and easy, like grabbing pretzels in a convenience store on the road.
Imagine three circles, each containing foods that represent the positive motivation for eating them- easy, fun, or for health.

The two simple things you have to do are:

1. balance them properly
2. build the area where the circles converge

How many ways can you discover foods that are healthy, and enjoyable to eat? Sautéed shrimp and vegetable with pasta fits that category for me. What is quick and healthy? Yogurt with rolled oat and fresh berries takes me 5 minutes to make in the morning and tastes great, too. I don’t know what foods help you to build out the area where the 3 circles converge, but I do know that putting your attention there is to your benefit.
Make eating as fun as possible! Let go of your judgment about foods you may have felt bad about in the past. Drop guilt, it’s useless. Enjoy it all, and gain control of the balance of your eating motivations so you can have the body you want and enjoy eating to the utmost. If you are strictly dieting, know that “passing the baton” to a balanced eating management plan that takes long-term balance into account, will be necessary to maintain your weight loss. If you wish to create a better body with more energy and well-being, using this plan of balance with the synergy of a good exercise program will work wonders in the short and long run.

Chris McNeil
Chris McNeil’s Pensarc Software was recognized as an “Innovator 2008” by the Charleston Regional Business Journal for developing www.fitmenu.net . Chris has also won two national awards for innovation for web-based fitness software. Follow fitmenu on twitter at Twitter: @fitmenu You can reach Chris at chris@pensarc.com.