Why You Shouldn’t Diet to Lose Weight and Keep It Off

I feel about airplanes the same way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.~Jean Kerr, “Mirror, Mirror on the wall,” The snake has all the lines, 1958

Dieting is never the answer to losing weight. Shocking isn’t it. The only thing even worse that a diet, is a crash diet. The only way to lose weight and keep it off is by changing your lifestyle and eating habits.

Most diets help you get only temporary results. The fat you lose just won’t stay off. This goes double for crash diets. There are only a few diets out there that actually bring you long term results. All these diets have one thing in common: they aren’t diets.

They are a way of living, a lifestyle change and the diet is the vehicle used to change your eating habits and your lifestyle. That is the one and only purpose of a healthy diet. It’s not that of helping you lose weight. Not by fat. That is just a secondary effect. You lose weight and more importantly you keep it off because you change your lifestyle and eating habits. Not the other way around.

All my friends that have lost weight and newer gained it back have one thing in common: they changed their life. If you have friends that have lose weight and maintained their thin figure you can see clearly that their life was transformed in the process. You can’t expect to keep your figure and eat truck loads of unhealthy food at the same time.

Change is scary, and most people would rather die than change. Change is hard but it is necessary if you want to lose weight and keep it off. There is no way around it if you want lasting weight loss results.