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How to overcome the Top 5 reasons you can't stick to a healthy eating plan long term

We surveyed 1000s of people in the wider Spud Fit online community to ask them what the #1 reason was that had prevented them from sticking to a healthy eating plan in the long term. Here are the solutions to the Top 5 most common reasons.

WHAT YOU’LL GET:

Short, sharp video training to show you how to overcome the Top 5 reasons preventing you from sticking to a healthy eating plan:
1. It’s too expensive
2. It takes too much organisation
3. I don’t have enough willpower
4. I’m an emotional eater
5. It’s too boring
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How to overcome the Top 5 reasons you can't stick to a healthy eating plan long term

Can't stick to a healthy eating plan?

Stop feeling powerless around your trigger foods. Instead, discover what’s really going on, why it’s not your fault, and how shockingly simple it is to change it. Without ever going hungry or relying on willpower.

“It’s so bloody simple, easy and honest”
Michael | 2019 Spud Fit Challenge

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Eat healthy on autopilot

Hi, I’m Andrew

By 2015 I was at my heaviest and saddest. Decades of the binge cycle had left me hungry, out of control with food and getting really worried about what the future held. I thought I was broken. No matter how much I knew about what I should be eating, I always ended up falling off the wagon.

The problem wasn’t lack of knowledge. I knew that reaching for the cookie jar after a stressful day was making me fat. It was that I just didn’t know how to stop doing it.

Every single diet I tried made every mouthful I ate feel like I was at war with myself. It was no way to live.

I finally found peace with food when I took matters into my own hands. I’ve now helped thousands of others overcome cravings and emotional eating, stick to healthy eating, and get their life back. It is:

Simple. No more wrestling with food choices. Super quick. Super easy meals.
Satisfying. Eat as much as you want. As often as you want. For any reason.
Nutritious. No pills, bars, shakes, salt-drenched packaged meals or powders. Just real, whole food.
Cheap. The ultimate antidote to fancy, hard-to-find and expensive ingredients!

“I think a miracle has occurred. My cravings are gone. I’m absolutely satiated and my focus has shifted off of food to other stuff in my life. Plus I have lost 12 lbs. Andrew = Genius! This has never happened to me before.”
Rosalyn | January 2021 Spud Fit Challenge

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If you've already tried every diet, you are not the problem

Hunger is miserable. Willpower is unreliable and finite. Weighing, tracking, measuring is exhausting and doesn’t work long-term for many reasons. You deserve better than what you’ve got from the weight loss industry so far. We give you everything you need to be able to stick to a healthy plan. Calmly, consistently and automatically.

Our mission: to make eating a healthy eating a core part of who you are - instead of just something you're trying to do

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STEP 1:

Get Clarity

Find out how commonly accepted weight loss advice actually encourages emotional eating and promotes both physical and psychological cravings. No wonder it’s been impossible to stick to a healthy eating plan in the long term! Get relief from blaming yourself and understand how our cheap, simple and calm approach to food works with your natural eating tendencies – not against them.

STEP 2:

Take Action

Any diet that relies on willpower is setting you up to fail. Here we use Skillpower instead. Get the training, tools, skills, strategies and support you need to successfully negotiate even your trickiest trigger foods and situations. We show you the exact steps to take to make the healthy choice the easy choice consistently, automatically – and without ever going hungry.

STEP 3:

Future Proof

Achieving your goal weight is only the first step. Now we need a rock solid plan to be able to stay there and live in peak health for the long term. Find out how to adjust and optimise your practical and mental strategies around how you eat. So that your food choices always always align with who you want to be and what you want from life.

Eat healthy on autopilot

This is the missing piece of the puzzle you’ve been searching for. Say no to cravings, bingeing and emotional eating and finally be able to stick to a healthy eating plan for good. With science-based, actionable knowledge, tools and strategies, you’ll get everything you need to make the healthy choice the easy choice. Lose weight. Gain energy. Create a life with more to it than worrying about every mouthful.

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