Announce to the world that you want to lose weight and you will attract more advice than you’ve bargained for, but how much of it is of any use? Friends will always pass on their experience, which is helpful, but too much advice can lead to confusion.
Yet another diet? Which one this time? Will the result be the same? You will be surrounded with people pulling you one way then the other, each one enthusiastically justifying their decision. All the advice is given in good part, but it makes life very difficult.
If you’re planning on losing weight the best thing you can do is to keep it to yourself if you want a quiet life. If too many people know they will be asking you for progress reports. Their interest is well meant, but it can put you under pressure, particularly when things aren’t going too well.
So, the first thing to do is to keep things to yourself. Do your own research. Make your own decisions. If you rely too much on the advice of others you will find out the truth the hard way.
What are you going to do? The best advice you will ever get, but probably not from your dieting friends, is ‘don’t go on a diet’! This is the best tip of all.
What do modern diets deliver? Weight loss…yes, of a kind. It’s called short-term weight loss, because in nearly all cases to weight returns. Is this what dieters really want? It’s what the multi-billion dollar industry wants because people have to come back for more. Dieters don’t achieve what they all want – permanent weight loss.
The answer to permanent weight loss is change. If you don’t change you will just carry on as before. Diets don’t teach you to change, which is one of the reasons why the weight comes back. You have to learn new slim habits.
Learning new habits is the only sure fire way of making change. It means that you can learn new eating and lifestyle habits that will be with you forever and it will allow you to take control of your life so that you never have to go on a diet again.
