Why Going On A Diet Doesn’t Work
You can’t turn on the TV, get on the Internet or open a magazine or newspaper without hearing about the nationwide obesity epidemic. More British people are overweight than ever before and, as a country, its time to do something about it. Carrying around excess body weight is unhealthy and unattractive, so you need to get up off the couch in order to make a difference in your world!
If you’re ready to do something about it, but you don’t have the budget or the freezer space to join a pre-packaged food programme like the celebrities in the ads, you need a plan. If you’re like most people, you want something that involves eating real food and avoids relying on diet pills.
For some people, losing weight is as simple as laying off the sweets and adding in some extra activity to their day. For the majority of us, however, there’s nothing simple about losing weight at all. If you’ve struggled with extra weight for a long time, it’s about a lot more than a few extra sweets and crisps. It’s about a lifestyle of poor nutrition, extra calories and too many hours at a desk. It’s about too much stress and not enough rest. It’s about taking care of everyone else and forgetting to take care of ourselves. When that’s the case, trimming down and shaping up is about a whole lot more than going on a diet.
A diet, by definition, is the sum total of what you eat on a regular basis. It’s an ongoing, cumulative collection of things you eat every day to nourish your body. Your diet is something you live on – not something you GO on. One of the reasons diets don’t work is the very way we associate them in our minds. Look at it this way: you live at home, but you go take a holiday for a temporary break, right? A holiday is never intended to last; it’s just a short-term change from your normal everyday routine. From the very first moment, when you go somewhere, the clock starts ticking toward the moment you return.
It stands to reason then, when you GO on a diet, your mind assumes it is a temporary situation and the normal routine will be resumed in a short while. With a mindset like that, it makes perfect sense when you return to your normal bad habits and poor choices. After all, that is exactly what you planned all along.
The absolute first step then, in losing weight, both on a personal level and as a nationwide goal, is to stop going anywhere. Stop the roller coaster ride of running away from your daily eating habits to a temporary plan of nutritious, healthy eating and honestly look at the real diet you live on instead. Not a diet to GO on, but the diet you LIVE on.
It is time for a lifelong change in the eating choices you make every day. After all, there’s a nationwide obesity epidemic – haven’t you heard?
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