Making a New Year’s resolution is not a great way of making a life change. But it does prove we want to make changes and often helps identify the changes we want in our lives. Creating a lifestyle that’s going to guarantee the best possible health for you and your family is what most of us want. It’s also potentially hard work, scary and difficult to implement and sustain.

 

Change is scary. But if you’ve already identified that you want to be on the best health trajectory, then you’ve accepted the challenge. Good on you!

 

How about hard work? Luckily science is on our side here. The healthiest lifestyles aren’t about lots of exercise, dieting and doing without. The healthiest lifestyle is the one that minimises the risk of getting the diseases that are most likely to kill you – obesity, heart attack, cancer, diabetes etc. You can eat lots and exercise is not for weight loss, it’s for fun. You can eat lots and it’s tasty.

 

But....and, yes, there is a "but". To implement and sustain a changed lifestyle you’ve got to choose a new path. Not for a short while, but for the long term, and let it become your “default” position; the lifestyle that you do without thinking; the lifestyle that is easiest to choose every day.

 

Research shows quite clearly that we won’t make these changes unless we’re in the right frame of mind. So, in developing the TINAD approach we have drawn on some guidelines from “The Campbell Plan” by Thomas Campbell MD. To start a new life you must ensure:

 

1. You have clear, personal reasons that justify a strong desire to change the foods you eat.

2. You have minimised obstacles (environmental, cognitive, physical) to adopting a new dietary pattern.

3. You have the necessary skills and confidence to implement this new lifestyle

4. You feel positive about your new eating habits and believe they will be beneficial

5. Your dietary goals are consistent with your self-image and social norms

6. You have support and encouragement from people you value and a community that supports your dietary changes.

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He says that if can’t answer each of these six points with a “yes” then you may not be ready to make a lifestyle change. We agree. The TINAD Action Plan that outlines how to get started on a Flexitarian WFPB Lifestyle is underpinned by these points.

 

 

We want to show you how to put them into action. If you want to print it out, download the E-Book (link below), or follow it on the website by clicking the Go to Step One button below:

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