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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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