If you’re one of the millions of people who have ever gone on a diet, you’re likely to have gained the weight back after the diet ended, maybe even ending up weighing more than when you started. This is the unfortunate reality for many people, and it’s not their fault – it’s a problem inherent in the entire dieting mindset.
Let me explain.
Taking freak genetic and metabolic conditions aside, a person is only as overweight or fit as their habits allow them to be. Let me say this again – a person is only as overweight or fit as their habits allow them to be. So when someone “goes on a diet” and temporarily changes their eating and exercising habits, they wind up seeing different results and they lose weight. But as soon as they “go off” their diet, i.e. revert back to their old habits, they gain most of the weight back, and sometimes even more.
This is why it’s crucial to not start a diet that you can only stick with for a month or two, at which point you give it up and go back to your old ways.
So what’s the answer?
Instead you must implement new, healthy habits, and ensure that they stick and take root.
This is as simple as adding one salad a day to your meals.
It’s as simple as jogging one mile three times a week.
It’s as simple as doing 20 body weight squats or 20 push ups before each meal.
As simple as adding more protein and fiber to your meals.
By doing this you won’t lose 20 pounds in 20 days. It may be more like 20 pounds in 2 months. But guess what? You’ll lose the weight enjoyably and it’ll stay off, and because your self-perpetuating habits will prevent you from gaining the weight back, it’ll stay off for good.
Change your habits, change your life.