Weighing It All Up: Is Technology Supporting Or Sabotaging Your Weight Loss Goals?

In this episode, I talk about:

• Why a healthy diet, exercise and sleep are essential for losing weight
• The importance of establishing a baseline, being clear about your weight loss goals, and tools to help you measure and track your progress
• Why fad diets are thriving in the digital age but they never lead to long-term weight loss
• Using apps to track your diet and why you also need to record how your food makes you feel
• Avoiding the misinformation spread by self-styled fitness gurus online and who you should be talking to instead
• 3 tips to help you navigate the temptations of technology and stick to a balanced, sustainable diet
• The importance of moving your body and how living a sedentary lifestyle in the digital age can impact your physical health
• How social media encourages fad exercise programmes, diet supplements that make false promises, illegal access to prescription medicines, and filters that affect your perception of fitness
• Using smartphones and smart watches to measure your progress without succumbing to digital distractions
• How scheduling workouts can make you more likely to exercise when your willpower is running low
• Why the gym isn’t for everyone and how to use technology to find a workout that you love
• What happens when you sleep and why not getting enough sleep may be sabotaging your weight loss efforts
• Why using your digital devices before bedtime is a bad idea and sleeping with your smartphone is even worse
• Tips and tools to help you minimise your exposure to harmful blue light and get a better night’s sleep

View show notes including links to all the resources and tools mentioned: https://thedigitaldietcoach.com/002

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