If You Stop Using the Diet As Your Excuse, You Will Lose Weight

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Isn't is fascinating how the start of the year, and now in the bathing suit season, we hear about all different diets?  A diet is defined as the kinds of food that a person, animal, or community habitually eats.  When you "go on a diet" its a way to create awareness as to what you are eating, and removes the option to overeat.  Often times we look at the diet as the enemy - the reason you can't have the cookies, or the candy, or the bread.  But be careful, because in that instance you are giving all the power to the diet, when in fact you are the one in control.

You are in total control of what you put in your mouth.  Overeating is what leads to weight gain, and overeating is simply defined as eating more than your body needs.  When you have been eating sugar, flour and processed foods for so long your body doesn't even know when you are truly hungry.  Your body doesn't register the calories the same way, your hormones are out of whack, and this leads to an inaccurate sense of fullness or hunger.

Diets can be a great way to learn about different ideas or theories around weight loss, and an amazing opportunity for you to begin bringing awareness to how you are feeling when you eat certain foods.  Diet mentality on the other hand, is when you think you will do this for a short period of time, you don't see the results fast enough, give up, and make it a huge problem.  That my friend, will not be sustainable.  In order to keep the weight off you need to find what will work for you long term.

The first step in finding a lifelong solution is to stop using the diet as your excuse, and start taking responsibility for what foods fuel your body.  The next step is to understand that a different life is possible, and that is where the true work is.  Diet mentality doesn't work - you do, and you can.

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