Insight into Weight Loss

The South Beach diet, the Atkins and now the Paleo Diet are all fad diets that can help you lose weight. They don’t truly get to the bottom of how you got unhealthy in the first place. News 25’s Bryan Kennedy caught up with a Coast author who is taking a new route to weight loss that starts with your mind instead of your stomach.
Ten years ago, Southern Miss football player Robby D’Angelo celebrated a winning season on the gridiron. After graduation, D’angelo continued eating like an offensive lineman. Without the rigorous football work outs, it all caught up with him and he packed on the pounds. “One of the things that I can now look back and see is that I was doing a lot of emotional eating. I had some voids in my life, something that I was feeling that I filled with food,” said D’Angelo.
At the peak of his weight gain, D’Angelo tipped the scales at 305, nearly 30 pounds more than the 277 he weighed as an offensive lineman. After constant failure, D’Angelo changed the playbook, getting rid of the fad diets and in touch with his emotions. Changing from the inside out, he eventually lost 115 pounds. “It’s that whole ‘yo-yo’ dieting that everybody goes through. One of the biggest thing that we do is we show people how to make it a permanent lifestyle,” said D’Angelo.
Robby says the key is to know what you’re eating. The next time you open your fridge and pull something out, check the back to see just what you’re eating. Processed food is usually bad for you. If you want to cheat a little bit and have some sweets, Robby says that can fit into your diet as well. “One of the things I love doing is taking the foods that I’ve enjoyed my whole life and making them healthy. I can eat cheesecake at night but I can make it healthy and make it fit into my diet.”
All insight he shares as a nutritionist, personal trainer and in his new book. “It keeps me motivated; it keeps me in the gym. It keeps me eating healthy. Just because I want to help others do that same thing because I know how powerful it’s been in my life. I know how it’s changed me.”
Robby D’Angelo’s book “The Struggle is Real” that he co-wrote with Karol Brandt-Gilmarting will hit Amazon online stores November 10th.