Diet is a four letter word to dietitians like me. Why do I hate ‘diets’ so much? Because they don’t work! Or you lose weight quickly but it comes back on just as quick. Losing weight is not about an amazing diet plan, it’s about making changes that you can maintain and in return keep weight off.
Diets typically deprive you of certain foods and what happens when you know you can’t have something? You think about it and the more you think about it the more you want it and the less committed you become to your ‘diet’. Once you have that forbidden food, the guilt sets in. You feel like you failed. Then after some time you try a diet again hoping to lose the five extra pounds you put on after you last diet attempt. A diet sets you up for failure.
More successful weight loss comes from a change in your lifestyle. A lifestyle change means that there are small changes you make and that you can keep doing forever. You can’t live off eating only fruit but choosing to eat more fruit in your diet is something you can keep doing.
I leave you with my rule of two weeks. It seems that any change you start to make takes about two weeks for it to become enough of a habit that you will keep going. Research shows that it takes at least three weeks for a change to stick and three months for it to become a full habit. So don’t get discouraged if choosing more fruits and vegetables or other small changes are not easy at first. Stick with it! Try a change for at least two weeks!
What is a small, healthy change you can make in the foods you eat?
I completely agree with this!! I also would like to add that by implementing snacks, healthy ones that is, into our diet would help our body accelerate its metabolism and therefore loose weight in a healthy manner. Eat when you feel hungry, don't deprive your body from food. Food is your body's fuel. Just eat in a healthy and conscientious way, every two hrs.--meaning a snack between each main meal (breakfast, lunch, and dinner)
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