Mediterranean Elite Tools for Dieting
Mediterranean Elite Tools for Dieting
Find your weight loss journey
Trisha Shoffner
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: The psychology Diets
Chapter 2: The Mediterranean Diet
Chapter 3: A modern-Day Meal Plan
The 21 day Meal Plan
Introduction
Diet culture is incredibly difficult to navigate. If you have any experience with it, you have been told to stop eating carbs, to only eat a specific number of calories a day, to precisely weigh your food, to only eat green things, to never eat green things, that only calories matter and what you eat does not, that calories do not matter and what you eat does. Dieting today is a tangle of bad advice and fads. It is no wonder that so many people have rejected the idea of dieting altogether. But if you want to lose weight or fix your health, it seems like you have to diet. So, which one do you choose? Is it really up to the lesser of all evils?
There is one solution. It is not the lesser of any evils. It is not even evil. It is a diet that has been used by real people for decades, and numerous studies have agreed that it actually does what people say it does. The Mediterranean diet can help you lose weight, prevent heart attacks and strokes, mitigate type 2 diabetes, and even help you live longer (Gunnars, 2018). It is backed by science and real life success stories. On this diet you will be eating clean foods, avoiding sugar and processed meats, getting plenty of fruits and vegetables, and always remembering nuts. Your diet will be the healthiest it has ever been. The Mediterranean diet is more than just guidelines, it is a lifestyle change that will help you live happier and healthier.
My weight issues started in high school. The stress of academics had me eating more. College did not help either. Everyone’s heard of the freshman 15, but what about the sophomore 30? I gained a lot of weight in my early twenties, and I spent a long time trying to get it off. Exercise helped, but once I had a full time job, I did not have time for it. I tried so many fad diets to get my weight down. I had heard of the Mediterranean diet, but I thought it was just some headline grabber for magazines, not a ‘real’ diet. To me, real diets had you meticulously counting calories and macronutrients. They gave you strict food restrictions so you had to carry a chart of food you could eat around with you. When none of those diets worked, I decided to research more into the Mediterranean diet. The more I read, the more I was intrigued. This diet seemed so lenient compared to the others. It does not even require a food scale. I was sold. From the first week that I was on it, I was in love. That was three years ago and I am still on the Mediterranean diet today. I am overjoyed that I get to share with others this life changing method.
Since I started this diet, I have lost all that stress weight I put on in school. I feel healthier and happier. I have gotten a few of my friends to try it too, they all fell in love with it as quickly as I did. I have also noticed my mood has improved. It is so much easier to wake up early, to take walks, to do all those little things I used to never have energy for. This diet is so much more than a list of rules, it truly is a lifestyle. I love it, and my doctor loves it, too. When I first started the diet, my blood pressure was pretty bad. Not only was I overweight, but I was stressed, and stress eating just made everything worse. After a few months of Mediterranean eating, I had a doctor’s appointment. My GP was astonished at how healthy I was. He told me my blood pressure was down to normal levels and that I had lost a healthy amount of weight. That feeling of pride has only grown.
Several scientific studies over the years have proved exactly what I went through. It is not just me. A 2013 article demonstrated that the Mediterranean diet significantly reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease in high-risk patients (Estruch et al., 2013). Another study found that people following the Mediterranean diet had reduced cholesterol levels and reduced risks for congenital heart disease (Fitó et al., 2007). A 2008 metastudy, which is a summary of several independent studies, analyzed 62 different studies and found that the health benefits of the diet, heart health, reduced cancer risk, reduced risk of stroke, and longer life span, were reflected in almost all studies surveyed (Sofi et al., 2008).
I and countless others can guarantee that the Mediterranean diet works. It is a lifestyle change that never gets old or boring or hard to keep up. Once
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Diet culture is incredibly difficult to navigate. If you have any experience with it, you have been told to stop eating carbs, to only eat a specific number of calories a day, to precisely weigh your food, to only eat green things, to never eat green things, that only calories matter and what you eat does not, that calories do not matter and what you eat does. Dieting today is a tangle of bad advice and fads. It is no wonder that so many people have rejected the idea of dieting altogether. But if you want to lose weight or fix your health, it seems like you have to diet. So, which one do you choose? Is it really up to the lesser of all evils?
There is one solution. It is not the lesser of any evils. It is not even evil. It is a diet that has been used by real people for decades, and numerous studies have agreed that it actually does what people say it does. The Mediterranean diet can help you lose weight, prevent heart attacks and strokes, mitigate type 2 diabetes, and even help you l