Traditional diets have taught us that to lose weight, we must count calories, keep track of everything we eat, and deprive ourselves by limiting the amount of food as well as the kinds of foods that we can eat.
Dieting can help us lose weight in the short term but is so unnatural and so unrealistic that it can never become a lifestyle that we can live with. Diets don't teach us the safest, most effective ways to exercise. They don't teach us how to deal with our cravings and our desires, or how to attend to our feelings of hunger and fullness.
Deliberate restriction of food intake in order to lose weight or to prevent weight gain, known as dieting, is the path that millions of people all over the world are taking in order to reach a desired body weight or appearance. Many of us who diet get caught in a "yo-yo" cycle that begins with low self-acceptance and results in structured eating and living because we lack trust in our body and are unwilling to listen and adhere to our body's signals of hunger and fullness.
People who try to live by diet lists and rules learn little or nothing about proper nutrition and how to enjoy their meals, physical activity, and a healthy lifestyle. No one can realistically live in the diet mode for the rest of their life, depriving themselves of the true pleasures of healthy eating and activity.
Most diet programs force you to lower your caloric intake to dangerously low levels. The common theory is that if you eat fewer calories than you burn, you will lose weight. But when you eat fewer calories than your body needs to maintain its life-sustaining activities, you're actually losing muscle in addition to fat.
The reason why most diets fail is simply because dieting is a failed science. Dieting does not interact well with the human species very well. It goes against our nature to deprive ouorselves. If you can understand that diets fail simply because the diets themselves are at fault then maybe you will be able to come around with your thinking to the other end of the spectrum and realize that perhaps, there may be a better way to lose weight than through dieting. (Hint: Exercise and healthy food intake)
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No Dieting Weight Loss | Cutting Calories | Behavior Modification
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Diets that Fail | Increase Metabolism | Hitting a Wall | Flabby Arms
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