The No Diet Approach -TNDA-

TNDA is a revolutionary approach to eating healthy. It is an approach that condemns weight loss plans and diets along with calorie restrictions and food deprivation.
The goal is to de-emphasize weight loss as a health goal and reduce stigma towards people that are overweight or obese.
Body size is not always in one’s control, we should not force someone’s body to be a certain size.
Dieting with a weight loss goal is not ideal but rather detrimental to one’s psychological health. Weight loss plans are short term plans whereas weight neutral plans are long term because they do not cause any psychological harm so the person will not go into emotional eating but rather intuitive eating.

The “Dutch eating behavior score” pinpoints that people can naturally eat according to 3 types of behaviors : emotional eating, restrained eating and external eating which means that not everyone of us behaves the same way when it comes to hunger. That factor is very important in the No Diet Approach because it cancels methods that are meant to be a one fix for all.
Eating should be for wellbeing rather than to attain a certain weight goal. Diet products can jeopardize one’s digestive balance. Ex: Having a diet soda can spike blood insulin because artificial sugars act like normal sugars in the body but without calories. Low fat products contain a high amount of sugar in certain cases and vice versa. The best way is to listen to the body because when left without diets it will react the best way it should. The body has its own balance of eating a variety of food and asking for more or less depending on dietary quality.
The thin-centric health care is not benign, fat phobia and weight bias are intimately connected.The way perfect bodies are portrayed through social media or magazines created eating disorders and a fear of gaining weight. The No Diet Approach is a cleanse from all the poisonous messages that we have been getting all along.

By converting from traditional meal planning to TNDA, I have realized that a lot of what has been taught in the diet industry is linked to diseases.
Weight loss diets are similar to diabetic diets, I understand that when faced with health issues some dietary changes can improve ones blood work but to impose these dietary changes on obese and overweight individuals is not always the case.
Going for healthy habits can help even more than lowering BMI from a health perspective.

In conclusion, I believe in the TNDA for its capacity to bring back the body to its own ability to keep us healthy and happy. There is no standards for body types, we are a combination of genetics and behavior. Going against ones nature will create a loss of balance, thus diseases and psychological problems. By respecting ones body and creating healthy behaviors we can lead a peaceful life without food deprivation and body shaming.

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