Frequently Asked Questions

Q. What makes this program different from other diets?

A. Firstly the program we offer is not a diet. The key aim of our program is for long-term change that teaches you how to maintain a healthy weight for many years without calorie counting or anything drastic. There are no new age supplements or strange rituals involved in our program, just simple principals of real food applied to your particular body type done one step at a time. The reason the program works is due to our ability to work out your own genetic dietary requirements and to teach you to eat to your particular body type, getting you the results you are looking for.

Q. What benefits will I see from your program?

A. There are an incredible amount of benefits to our programs. Benefits to our program can be extremely vast as it focuses on normalising all the systems of the body that may be under stress, creating homeostasis from within. You may experience weight loss, banished food cravings, increases in energy, elimination of headaches and abdominal bloating, increased vitality, improved sleep patterns, reduction in muscle soreness and back pain. These are just some of the things you may experience; truly profound results are possible by everyone just by eating and living to the requirements of your particular body type.

Q. Your programs are more expensive than other programs like Tesco diets and weight watchers, why?

A. This is because everything we do is tailored to the individual's genetic requirements using some of the best minds in the diet and nutritional world coupled with 25 years of scientific research. Unlike most sites offering diet solutions there is no solution that applies to everyone, everyone is different and requires different fuels, and this is what we deliver. Someone's individual metabolic type^® is unique to them and will not work the same for another individual. You are not paying for a diet; this is a complete diet and lifestyle solution that will teach you the secrets to a vibrant and healthy life, that you can follow for the rest of your life, not just a couple of months.

Q. I enjoy my food and don't want to feel starved or hungry?

A. If anything you will eat more on our program. The reason being, all the food going in to your mouth will be the right food, in the right proportions and right for your body type. If you give your body all the food it requires it will be burnt efficiently as fuel and never stored as fat. You were given an appetite so that you would nourish yourself, and it is our job to show you the right tools to nourishing yourself.

Q. Some of your articles and information talks about eating fat, will I not get fat?

A. No. Fat is the most energy dense food you can consume providing 9 calories per gram. It is also highly important to consume adequate amounts of fat depending on your metabolic type^® as it provides a whole host of nutrition required by the body. But the key point is that if your body eats to how it was designed to eat then no food should ever be converted into fat, but burned as energy.

Q. I'm always feeling tired and love coffee, its gets me through the day, will I have to give up coffee?

A. Maybe. Here at yourdietadvisor.co.uk we test the individual and what it needs, so we can't give a concrete answer to anyone without the full picture. Coffee can put the hormones under a lot of stress and this could be one of the reasons you are struggling with your weight and energy so it may be important to remove such items until the body recovers to full health. Only then can coffee be a healthy addition to the diet.

Q. I enjoy going out and enjoying myself, do I have to give up all my guilty pleasures?

A. No. But then this can depend on how many guilty pleasures you have. One rule we have at yourdietadvisor.co.uk is to follow the 80/20 rule. If you are good 80% of the time then your body can handle the other 20%, its when the 20% starts to become 40% then 50% and so on, that's when your perception of how much you are doing is good, is no longer constructive to good health. Obviously the closer to 100% good you achieve the quicker and more profound your results can be, but yes, everything in moderation.

Q. I'm very fussy with food, will I be forced to eat things I don't like?

A. No. A key element to the program is to find the foods that work for you but provide good health at the same time. This will make it a lot easier to stick to the program and not feel like a chore. Only once you are comfortable with what you are doing on the program will it be advisable that new foods are tried to introduce variety and more balance to your diet. You will probably find a lot of new foods enjoyable as your taste buds change and no longer crave particular foods.

Q. I'm a competitive athlete, could this program help me?

A. Yes. Because anyone can benefit from eating to their metabolic type^® as it gives the ideal energy output as it stimulates the correct energy systems in the right way. But due to intense exercise putting the body under a lot of strain you will need a lot of high quality nutrition and will require extra mentoring from us on food choices at different times of the day to stimulate the correct response pre and post training. Mentoring and a full analysis are important as sports nutrition varies from person to person and according to the sport.