the problem with diets
Over 100 different types of diet plans have been promoted in the past 50 years, and the average person now weighs 30 pounds more. With all these diets at our disposal, why do we continue to gain weight?
Diets are temporary
Have you ever started a diet intended for weight loss and happily lost a few pounds only to gain it all back? Weight loss diets are generally designed as a way of modified eating that can only be tolerated for a short period of time. So it only makes sense that once you finish the diet, you fall back into the same old behaviors and habits, which place you right back where you started.
Diets demand will power over all else
When you embark on a diet, you are employing pure willpower. No one would disagree that eating fresh vegetables is healthier than eating chocolate cake. The problem is you must will yourself away from the cake, time and time again. In the short term, will power can work. Long term, however, most will cave into those special food cravings, leaving us feeling defeated and likely to give up trying all together.
