Diets, Maintenance & Willpower
Why Isn't My Diet Working?
The reason why most diets tend not to
work for very long is because they are not sustainable. A person gains
weight because he or she consumes more calories per day than needed.
The diet creates a temporary deficit. When the diet ends, the person
goes back to normal eating and the weight comes back. This
is why diets don't work for most people. You do lose weight, but then
go off the diet and gain it back. What is needed instead is a sustainable
diet -- a food consumption and exercise
plan -- that lets you live a normal life and eat normal foods in
a normal way.
How to Have Willpower when Dieting:
People often complain that they cant stick
to a diet and loose weight because they do not have enough "Willpower."
We blame overeating, eating food that is high in fat and making unhealthy
choices on our lack of willpower. Will power becomes this mysterious
entity that if only we had it we would be able to loose weight. As well,
many people will just give up and think that they cannot develop willpower
-that they cannot control it.
Here are some tips to help you get over your willpower hang-ups:
1. Get rid of the word WILLPOWER in your vocabulary.
2. Instead think in terms of INCENTIVE. Incentives
can be thought of in a different way than willpower, which people tend
to feel that you either have or don't. Incentives are not something
that you have inside you. We can find and develop them for ourselves.
Incentives for dieting can be developed.
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