If you have ever felt frustrated when trying to help your patients manage their weight and motivate them to live a healthier life,
then Appetite Right™ is the program for you. The truth is traditional dieting recommendations simply don't work.
Think about it for a minute, if diets really were effective for long-term weight management, then society's weight management
problems would have been solved long ago.
Let's take a quick look at the dieting phenomena and why they simply don't work. So called 'diet experts' usually define foods
as being good or bad, and therefore recommend that certain types of food need to be either avoided, limited or counted. To comply,
the unsuspecting dieters must maintain their willpower indefinitely. Not surprisingly, dieters often exhibit an increased
pre-occupation with food and feelings of deprivation, which eventually leads to a love/hate relationship with food. The 'diet expert'
also determines when, what, and how much dieters should eat, regardless of their intrinsic hunger and fullness cues. This doesn't
allow them to learn to use their innate ability to manage their weight. It is true; dieting often backfires leading to a decrease
in a dieter's metabolism. And in the end, as many scientific studies have found, most dieters regain their lost weight - and more.
Furthermore, the 'diet expert' often prescribes exercise to burn off fat, or to earn the right to eat. In essence, exercise then
becomes a punishment for eating. A common result of this negative association is that when the diet is over, the exercise program
is over too.
Most importantly, traditional dieting approaches focus on what people should eat without first addressing why they are eating in
the first place. Dieters often don't learn to recognise and effectively cope with the common environmental or emotional eating
issues that surround them. Appetite Right helps people meet their bio-psycho-social lifestyle needs.
In short, you can see from the diagram below that dieting is negative, disempowering, and unsustainable. In its wake, the dieter
is left with feelings of guilt, disappointment, lowered self-esteem, and diminished self-efficacy. This becomes a downward cycle,
which they may never physically or emotionally recover from.
 Yet many in the health and fitness sector continue to advocate
dieting, despite a scientifically proven failure rate that would
be considered unacceptable for most other therapeutic interventions.
It must be asked; at what point will society begin to doubt the
wisdom of diets, rather than the fortitude of dieters?
Granted, this requires a paradigm shift. Dieting is so pervasive
in society today that it is difficult to imagine it any other way.
But there is a growing non-diet movement that has been largely unheard,
misunderstood, or dismissed by the wider community. Now faced with
a rapidly increasing epidemic of overweight and obesity, can we
afford to ignore it any longer?
It is time to move away from promoting ineffective dieting techniques,
and instead guide people to relearn their instinctive ability to
feed themselves an appropriate amount of sensible food. We need
to help people recognise and find ways to meet their emotional needs
rather than let these needs lead to weight gain. Further, they deserve
a solid foundation of legitimate, reliable nutritional information
and freedom from the harsh, arbitrary limits of restrictive dieting.
Just as importantly, they need a positive, sustainable approach
to exercise, in order to build an enjoyable, healthy, active lifestyle.
Appetite Right™ addresses all of these issues in an innovative,
integrated, multi-dimensional and personalised approach that is
simply not found among the heavily marketed 'quick-fix' diets.
You have our pledge that Appetite Right™ delivers real health skills;
there are no gimmicks and
quick-fixes! Appetite Right™ can transform a person who struggles
with weight and eating issues into a person with healthy attitudes
and behaviours. You and those you care for will gain a whole new
approach to weight - and life - management.
We have published a detailed analysis on the complex problems associated
with the "dieting mentality", as well as other helpful patient information
about our specialised multidimensional weight loss solution.
This document is available for download
here 
(354kb)
Please contact us and discuss how Appetite Right™ can help your
patients.
Dimitra Arthur
(Director)
Bachelor of Economics (Honours)
Graduate Diploma of Applied Finance & Investment
Master of Business
Graduate Diploma of Psychological Studies
Post-Graduate Diploma of Psychology
Associate Member of Australian Psychological Society
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Nicholas Arthur
(Director)
Bachelor of Arts
Diploma of Financal Advising
Graduate Diploma of Human Nutrition
Master of Human Nutrition
Registered Nutritionist, Nutrition Society of Australia
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