Not Another Fad Diet
The Dr Idiot Healthy Eating Blog
​Do you feel as if you need to lose weight?
Have you been told you need to eat more healthily?
Are you fed up with people judging you for what you put in your mouth?
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Well, welcome to The Dr Idiot Blog on Healthy Eating.
This is no fad diet. This is no blame game.
I, the eponymous hero in this food related story, won't rest on individual responsibility or lean on personal accountability.
I will show you that many of the things that determine what you eat are outside of your control.
That the food choices we make are a natural reaction to a rather unnatural environment.
I might suggest a few things you can do about it.
I might poke fun at the traditional diets, written by so called 'experts' with their supposed 'experience'.
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But I will tell you about all the different factors that are influencing what we consume.
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And I might have a bit of fun whilst I do so.
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Read on to find out more, starting with who I am and why you should care about what I think.
Who is Dr Idiot?
Firstly, I will confess that I am none of the people in the stock photo to the right. It is better for us all if you read my words and don't have to see my face.
Secondly, I will admit that I am not actually called Dr Idiot. My name is Dr I. Diot. An unfortunate choice by my parents, who did the hard work for the bullies before I had begun school.
I do know something about food though. I eat a lot of it after all. And I know how hard it is to consume only the recommended things everyone tells me I should and avoid all the ones they tell me I shouldn't. That is why I am the perfect person to talk to about healthy eating.
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Click the link below to read more on my food experiences and learn how I became the Dr Idiot that I am.
About the Dr Idiot Blog
Have you tried the fad diets that say you can eat whatever you want and still lose weight?
Have you read the books that propose very rigid food regimes?
Have your attempts at healthy eating only lightened your bank balance?
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Well, the Dr Idiot Blog is different.
In these blogs I cover all the factors that influence what people eat and how much weight they gain or lose.
This is not another fad diet. This is not a short-term measure.
What is held within these posts is neither recipes nor motivational mantra.
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This is the complete package.
Through my blog I tell you about the science of weight change.
I tell you why there is so much focus on what you eat.
And I help you understand the factors that influence the food choices you make.
Be they personal, social, environmental or societal.
I help you explore yourself with my specially developed questionnaires.
I counter and correct the myths that have been holding us back for so long.
I tell you how you can use negative factors to your advantage with my targeted plans.
I share the letters my patients would have written if I was a real doctor.
And I help you shake the social norms and beliefs that hold you back.
Helping you think outside of the many boxes that encase us.
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Scroll down to find out more and to start exploring the many levels that determine what you eat.
Dr Idiot Blog Categories
There are many levels of influences that determine what we eat. Each category below considers one of these and suggest things you can do to counter them. First though, learn the science of weight change and some of the reasons you might want to consider what you consume.
The science of weight change
Ever wondered why it's so easy to gain weight and so hard to lose it? Click the link below to learn the science of weight change.
Them
The people you hang around with can have a big influence on what you eat. Click the link below to find out more.
Why care about what you eat anyway
Why are doctors and healthcare workers so interested with what people eat? Click the link below to find out.
Where you live
We eat where we live. The link below will help you understand how your immediate environment determines your food choices.
You
Click the link below to learn the things about you that influence what you eat.
Society
Governments, religions, norms and politics all influence the food we eat. We might not always see them, but they are there all the time. Click the link below to find out more.