The GDA Diet is the diet for everyone. It is the first and only diet to use the Guideline Daily Amounts (GDAs) food labelling system which has been adopted by leading brands throughout the UK. The GDA Diet is the key to losing weight and keeping it off! It's simple to follow and doesn't involve complicated recipes or fancy foods; in fact it incorporates the everyday products - including ready meals - you'll find in the supermarket. Nothing is banned or off limits, allowing you to eat the foods you love while staying nutritionally balanced and making more informed choices about what you eat.
The GDA Diet has been compiled from over 20, 000 supermarket products, making it the most comprehensive and varied diet ever! It is full of tips for real people, living busy lives with recommendations for people on budgets, the time pressed and vegetarians, so there are really no more excuses not to eat well and be healthy.
Follow the simple guidelines in this diet and you'll confidently be able to break free from the 'yo-yo diet cycle.' This is your passport to a lifetime of permanent weight control and better health.
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One of the questions I’m asked most often, by clients, journalists, in TV interviews or by friends, is: ‘What is the ultimate diet?’ Of course, the truth is there is no one diet that’s perfect for everyone. The ultimate diet for each of us is the one that is safe, that works and that we can maintain for a lifetime. Each individual’s diet will be slightly different, because of course we are all different.
Having said that, there are certain features that are essential for a diet to be safe, healthy and successful. The GDA Diet ticks all the ‘ultimate’ requirements:
It’s safe
It works
It suits men and women
There are no banned foods
It’s simple and easy to understand
There are no fancy ingredients to worry about
The GDAs help you to adapt the way you eat to lose weight, maintain your weight loss and be healthy.
It’s an eating plan for life!
Sounds pretty good, doesn’t it? Perhaps the more pertinent question to ask is: ‘Why do other diets fail?’
Let me explain.
THE DIET CYCLE
We’ve all been there. It’s Monday morning, another weekend of overindulgence is behind you, and it’s D-day. You’re all fired up and ready to go. You’re about to start the diet! Later that week, or even that day, things may start to get a bit dodgy. You’ve had a stressful day at work, the kids are playing up, you’re tired, hungry, haven’t planned ahead for the diet, or there may be a multitude of other factors; and at that point, it’s all too easy to decide the diet is just too hard or too much hassle to stick to. Your willpower slips by the wayside, leaving you feeling lousy, disappointed, guilty and like a failure.
If this sounds familiar, that’s because it’s exactly what I’m talking about when I describe the ‘diet cycle’: a cycle of preparing for a diet, starting a diet, stopping a diet, and feeling guilty about it.
The diet cycle
When I meet a new client, we spend quite a lot of our time together talking about their previous dieting experiences. It helps us both to understand how they usually approach a diet, so we can plan a new approach that will work for them. Some of the most common reasons why clients have stopped dieting in the past include:
No willpower
Not enough time to bother with ‘fancy’ diet food
No time to cook at all
Can only diet when everything’s going smoothly in life
Everyone else keeps putting me off
Stress and pressure at work
I’m out two or three nights a week
Diets are really confusing and complicated, I just want something simple to follow
Are these reasons for abandoning a diet, or excuses? Well, they can be a bit of both, but from my experience with my clients, and from my own dieting history, I am convinced that dieting behaviour is something we learn and can change. The more times you go through that diet cycle, the more your destructive diet behaviour becomes entrenched. The time it takes from the starting point of the diet cycle to the stopping point, and the guilty feelings of ‘failure’, get shorter and shorter. Eventually, for some people this means not even getting as far as starting the next diet. We come to know our personal diet cycle so well, we believe we’re doomed to fail before we even start. So of course we think: ‘What’s the point in bothering at all?’
The most important thing to say about this pattern of behaviour is that it can all be changed: the diet cycle can be broken. The GDA Diet is a great opportunity for you to change the way you approach eating and your weight loss goals forever. Once you break the cycle you are in control, you make the decisions and you have the upper hand when it comes to changing the way you eat, look and feel.
MAKING THE GDA LEAP
Someone once taught me: ‘If you do what you always did, you’ll get what you always got!’ So my job is to help you to take the massive and brave leap out of your diet cycle and into the brave new world of healthy living. I want to help you to break that miserable cycle forever.
Here’s how it works.
The first thing you need to do is to accept and admit to yourself that you have been stuck in a diet cycle. That acceptance and understanding of what’s happened in the past are all you need to be able to break the cycle. The new awareness gives your brain the information it needs to start afresh.
So don’t waste another second beating yourself up about dieting miseries from the past. There are no ‘failures’, only lessons you can learn - and then you can put what you learnt into practice.
WHAT’S YOUR DIET CYCLE?
Think about the last time you started a diet that you abandoned before making the progress you’d hoped for, and work through the list of questions below to help you unravel what really happened.
I’ve given you a selection of answers as a starting point. Choose the answer that best fits your story, or write in your own if none of the answers is appropriate. There are no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ answers here and you can choose as many answers as you like. This is only to help you understand your diet cycle. After you’ve answered the quest...
