Fast Diet Fixes Think Lifestyle

The problem with the word ‘diet’ is that it implies a temporary solution.

As you know, anything temporary must come to an end.

And when you reach that end, the old habits come flying back along with all the weight you lost.

If you tell yourself you are on a diet then you are losing weight for the here and now.

If on the other hand you want to lose weight on a more permanent basis then this is really a lifestyle change. Calling it this rather than a diet will not only fix it as permanent in your mind but will take away all the negative connotations of the word ‘diet’.

This long term, permanent lifestyle change is what you want to achieve rather than just losing weight for the moment.

Because dieting is short term, once we stop we gain back the weight as we fall back into our old eating habits.

This leads to “Yo-Yo Dieting” as we go from one diet to the next in the hope that this is the solution to our weight problems we have been searching for.

Each diet ends up the same. You start out and experience quick results.

Then you hit a plateau, binge and gain back all the weight plus even more.

And why do you gain all of the weight back plus even more?

Because your body has what we call a set point, like a natural thermostat that regulates your weight.

When you first start to lose weight on a new diet, your body goes into shock. This is especially true of highly restrictive diets that strictly control calorie intake.

You may initially lose 5 or even 10 pounds but suddenly you hit that plateau and it seems your new diet is no longer working for you.

So you cut even more calories in the hopes of kick-starting the weight loss once more but nothing drops off.

Because you have restricted your calories, your body goes into self-preservation, survival mode. And it’s all thanks to evolution.

In survival mode, your body overrides your desire to lose weight too fast by making you sluggish and lethargic.

Your metabolism slows right down. You barely have enough energy to lift your own arm let alone your entire body to continue exercising.

If, on the other hand, you adopt steady lifestyle changes your body does not fall into survival mode.

Instead, it adapts and adjusts at a pace that means those changes are incorporated as new, long term habits.

Remember that it takes on average 30 days to incorporate a new habit into your life so don’t beat yourself up by expecting to achieve it in less time.

 

Educating yourself with new, healthier eating and exercise habits means that you avoid the destructive patterns set up by traditional dieting.

After all – don’t you deserve to be the best version of you so you can enjoy every aspect of your life?

Adjusting your lifestyle so that it enables you to achieve that is one of the most important gifts you can ever give yourself.