How to switch up your diet routine:

First, it’s important to know that as you lose weight, your body will need fewer calories. So if your routine included specific foods that added up to 3,000 calories, and then you drop 10 pounds, you’ll likely need to readjust your calorie intake to a lower and more appropriate number.

Next, cabbage soup is not enough. Diets like the Cabbage Soup Diet that require you to eat one type of food and one type of food only are extremely tedious on your body. Your system craves different colors, shapes, textures, and food groups; if you give it no variety at all, it’ll rebel by giving up on the weight loss or by going overboard on satisfying those cravings with sweet, fatty foods.

The Fix:

•    Eat small, balanced, colorful meals throughout the day. The more color you add to your meal, the more likely you’ll hit up different food groups with varied nutritional value. It’s also nice to eat colorful food—begin to enjoy the presentation on your plate!
•    Try not to repeat foods throughout the day. Eggs are healthy, but eggs for breakfast, lunch, and dinner are a bit much. It’s not a good idea to eat too much of a good thing—it’s boring and it deprives your body of nutrients found in other foods that you’re ignoring.
•    Adjust your meal size to match how hungry you actually are. If you always order and eat a soup and sandwich for lunch, it’s possible that your body eats the same amount every day out of habit, not hunger. Pay attention to your hunger signals. Could be that after a bigger breakfast, you’ll need a smaller lunch.

With the BCM diet you’ll have three well-balanced meals a day, each one including the right amount of carbs, protein, and fat. There’s no snacking—sorry!

The BCM diet takes you through four phases. The first is reduction (6-8 weeks). Instead of two of your regular balanced meals, you’ll substitute two BCM meals instead. The BCM weight loss supplements that you’ll use will help you metabolize and burn fat more efficiently.

Phase 2 (6-8 weeks) is all about integration. During this phase you’ll eat two of your own healthy meals and only one BCM meal replacement each day. BCM formulas come in flavors like banana, cappuccino, chocolate, vanilla, and others.

Phase 3: Adoption. Here you’re back on your own preparing and eating all three of your own meals. You’ll be on phase 3 for about 10 weeks before deciding if you need to head back to phase 1 or 2 for some maintenance work, or just carry on eating and exercising according to your new healthy lifestyle.

The last phase is an ongoing consultation phase. For the next few years you’ll see a doctor or nutritionist who will help monitor your weight loss accomplishments.

The most important thing about BCM—and really this applies to any diet—is a shift in attitude. Once you accept that a healthy lifestyle will lead to a healthy body, then you’ll be more encouraged to pursue that healthy lifestyle.

The BCM diet and all of its products are sold by doctors and nutritionists who recognize that sometimes all people need are a little jumpstart before embarking on a diet that will change their lives.