Why Diets Work And Then Fail…..

There are currently hundreds (if not thousands) of diets. These involve food and/or caloric restrictions, special foods, calorie counting, portion weighing, pre-packaged meals, pills and supplements. Diets have become a regular component of health and women’s magazines, not to mention the news. Not surprisingly, variations on the same themes reappear under new names every 10 -15 years.

Almost anyone can lose weight on a diet. Most diets require that you follow a rigid regimen that controls your food intake. You are told to eat certain foods in specified amounts on a set schedule. You do not have to think or feel on a diet. You simply follow the instructions. And you lose weight. Voila! Successful weight loss!

But we live in a free society. And a free person will not remain in a voluntary state of deprivation for very long. The diet will eventually end. And the weight loss will end with it.

Why Diets Fail – Unsuccessful weight loss

Diets are designed to alter the quantity and the content of your food intake. This is contrived and artificial. Diets force you to give up choice and relinquish control. Diets do not depend on your innate senses or feelings. And when you are restricted from eating the foods that you like, you are being physically and emotionally starved.

When you “fall off” or give up on your diet, as you always do, you return to your past eating habits, sometimes gradually, often in a frenzy. You are now making up for weeks or months of deprivation. You are still not in touch with your body. You are eating to compensate for your past sacrifices. And this is why you gain back all the weight you had lost, and then some.