Happy 4th of July, everyone! Eat drink and be merry!
The diet bothers me. Let me tell you why. IMHO it is a temporary fix. Yes, you will loose weight but you are not permanently changing your eating habits to keep the weight off. To do that you have to adapt and adopt a healthy diet and stick with it. If you go back to your old eating habits after adhering to the diet, you will just gain the weight back. That is why a lot of people have trouble with diets like Weight Watchers. They join, loose say, 45 pounds quit and go back to their old eating habits. 6 months or less later, they have gained back the 45 pounds plus an extra ten. Why? Bad dietary choices and the resuming of old eating habits.
It's important to adhere to the concept of lean healthy protein filled in with good carbs veggies and fruit in recommended servings sizes. Yes you have to give up a lot of your favorite foods but the trade off is improved health.
For me, reducing my serving size and sticking with healthy foods has worked wonders. Yes, I allow myself the occasional treat. Last night it was a pop sickle. But last night I told DH that it had it me that if I wanted to keep the weight off that I had lost, I had to permanently stick with my diet. No fried foods, no bad carbs, no junk food and I have to keep moving! Exercise is vital to loosing weight and keeping it off.
So basically the reason most diets fail is because they are too difficult to stick to. Folks who need to loose a lot of pounds really need to be under a doctor's supervision for weight loss and even consider a dietitians supervision as the amount of time it takes to loose 100 pounds will take months instead of days and the chance of failure is high if you are not willing to permanently change your eating habits.
Anybody can do it. It's just a matter of determination.
The diet bothers me. Let me tell you why. IMHO it is a temporary fix. Yes, you will loose weight but you are not permanently changing your eating habits to keep the weight off. To do that you have to adapt and adopt a healthy diet and stick with it. If you go back to your old eating habits after adhering to the diet, you will just gain the weight back. That is why a lot of people have trouble with diets like Weight Watchers. They join, loose say, 45 pounds quit and go back to their old eating habits. 6 months or less later, they have gained back the 45 pounds plus an extra ten. Why? Bad dietary choices and the resuming of old eating habits.
It's important to adhere to the concept of lean healthy protein filled in with good carbs veggies and fruit in recommended servings sizes. Yes you have to give up a lot of your favorite foods but the trade off is improved health.
For me, reducing my serving size and sticking with healthy foods has worked wonders. Yes, I allow myself the occasional treat. Last night it was a pop sickle. But last night I told DH that it had it me that if I wanted to keep the weight off that I had lost, I had to permanently stick with my diet. No fried foods, no bad carbs, no junk food and I have to keep moving! Exercise is vital to loosing weight and keeping it off.
So basically the reason most diets fail is because they are too difficult to stick to. Folks who need to loose a lot of pounds really need to be under a doctor's supervision for weight loss and even consider a dietitians supervision as the amount of time it takes to loose 100 pounds will take months instead of days and the chance of failure is high if you are not willing to permanently change your eating habits.
Anybody can do it. It's just a matter of determination.
