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Gil Avidor Aloni interviews Shay Weiss about the non-diet approach (Walla system)

If you live on this planet, it is likely that you too have been on a diet at some point.

And more than that - it was probably not the first nor the last.

Let's face it, most of us know deep down that diets don't really work in the long run.

What happens to us most of the times is that we start with a lot of motivation, eat according to the plan, lose weight, but very quickly lose the willpower, start to deviate from the plan and gain everything, and even more than that back.

Surprisingly, even though our attempts fail, leaving us frustrated and disappointed in ourselves time and time again, we still go on to the next diet hoping that this time it will be different - and get fooled again.

The non-diet approach offers an alternative to conventional diets, with its main goal being to get out of the cycle of diets.

Shay Weiss, a clinical nutritionist, who handles the approach explains that "the essence of the non-diet approach is to help people create a better relationship with food and sometimes even restore it."

This relationship has two sides: the physical side and the emotional side.

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In the physical aspect, the goal of the process will be to create a pleasant and nutritious eating routine for the person, with the guiding principle being listening to the mechanism of hunger and satiety.

Weiss explained that while hunger is a basic and physiological instinct, people interpret and react to it differently, especially people who have already tried one or two diets.

"What you see in people who are on diets for a long time, is that they are a little afraid to accept the fact that they are hungry," he explained.

Weiss said that in the non-diet process, you learn to accept hunger and work together with it, not against it, to give it legitimacy, and to understand that it can look different to different people.

After that, they begin to learn how to listen and respond to him by working with practical tools, for example - a scale of hunger and satiety, in which the degree of hunger is rated from 1 to 10, and writing a travel diary in which the patient records the feelings that arise around food and eating.

The hardest part is letting go of our misconceptions about weight.

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Shay divides the answer to the question "what do we eat" in the non-diet process into a mix of three things: what we can eat, what we want to eat, and what we need to eat.

On a non-diet, you learn to release the limitations and prohibitions of the world of diets in order to realize that we can and have the legitimacy to eat everything from everything.

Along with this, you learn to make room for your desires and the foods that will satisfy them, and these two things are combined along with paying attention to a diet that promotes physical health.

On the emotional side, you learn to examine automatic thoughts and limiting beliefs that have accumulated over the years as a result of the diet culture.

Weiss claims that this is perhaps the biggest challenge in the process, since dietary thoughts such as "this is a forbidden food" or "if I was thinner I would be happier", are so deeply embedded in us, and surround us from every direction, that it is almost impossible to get rid of them.

Therefore, we will not expect to forget them completely, but we will learn to accept them and deal with them in a way that is best for us when they arise.

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