Weight loss tips

Weight loss tips from the book "The Good Enough Diet". Yes, it's more for myself than the people who read this blog. Doesn't hurt to share though, right? The following information is copyrighted by the authors of "The Good Enough Diet" and the publishers. I do not own anything. And I have altered the sentence structure/rephrased.

The truth about taste:

• For a healthier diet, you can introduce a variety of healthy foods and train yourself to like them. However, strategies to change taste are not an overnight occurrence. When you have grown up not liking a food, you will continue to have negative associations with that food. 
• In children, it has been shown that they need to be exposed to a new food more than 11 times before they will accept it. Funnily enough, it is the same for adults. 
• The first stage is to try the new vegetable in a mixed meal. The same vegetable needs to be included three different ways to meals.
• Small amounts are enough to change taste preferences. Although a bit of spinach might not improve one's nutritional intake remarkably at first, the benefits to familiarity and long-term acceptance are worth it. 
• Creating a positive environment for different foods that you once didn't like is needed to create positive associations with new (healthy) foods. 

V for Variety:

• Less variety in your food choices equals more weight loss. 
• Those who have been successful at losing weight will tell you that they eat a relatively boring diet. They eat the same foods often and some proclaim that they have eaten the same food every day for the past 5, 10, 15 or 20 years. 

Me: I almost died when I read that. 

• Those who lost weight and kept it off for more than two years had less variety within all food groups except vegetables, and more variety in their choice of vegetables. This meant that they were not cutting out food groups, but having less of a variety within each of them. 

That's all for today. Will upload more from this book next time. Bye!