Choosing a Diet & Following Through With That Diet Was Never Meant to Be Easy - Right? |
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By: H Woolston Posted: 2009-07-11 06:52:46 |
| Nobody ever expects a diet to be easy. After all, if losing weight was an easy thing to do none of us would have problems with our weight in the first place! But, it's not just the actual diet that can be hard here -- choosing the right diet for the results you want can be even harder than the actual diet itself.Dieting is big business. Obesity is rising on a global basis and many of us have become overweight through poor diets. When you get to the stage when you realize that you must lose some weight -- or simply want to -- then you may well have to completely re-educate yourself before you can make any diet work for you.This isn't easy either. Every diet out there will be based on different principles. Some may suit some people but not others and some simply won't work at all. Problem here is, you won't really know how well any diet will work for you until you try it, and if it doesn't work then you will simply be left feeling demotivated and downhearted.One of the biggest issues I hear people talk about when it comes to choosing a diet is the fact that the information out there all says different things. Some diets claim that you can lose weight by following a specific diet plan, some tell you to cut out certain foods completely. Others tell you it's not about the food you eat, it's all about your portion sizes.For every nugget of truth you find out there, there'll be lots of nuggets of misinformation. Unfortunately, however, you can't always sort out the truth from the lies until you know what you're doing and that often only happens when you start a diet in the first place. The most common problem experienced here is all about what diets don't tell you. They won't, for example, highlight the negatives and potential downsides.So, for example, a diet that tells you to halve your portion sizes can accurately enough claim that you'll lose weight if you do this. Makes sense really...if you eat less you'll see some pounds disappear. But, what the diet might not tell you is that you may spend most of the day hungry and you'll have cravings that could well drive you crazy! You may even get sick if you don't eat enough. This simply makes it harder to keep going with the diet and eventually you'll go back to your previous eating habits.It's far better to find a simple health and fitness solution that allows you to eat well so you can carry it on for as long as you need to. This kind of solution is better for you and, if you choose the right health and fitness program, you can actually let your body do all the work of pushing away your excess weight. |
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