Diets Don't Work
By Lisa Gallo, CPT, NWS, Aerobics Instructor, CFC
1- Dieting makes you feel deprived. You go off the diet and eat what you
want.
2- Dieting causes resentment. You feel like a child being told what to do, so
you rebel and eat.
3- Dieting is rigid and unnatural. It is too difficult to eat at set times and
only set amounts and prescribed food.
4- Dieting ignores body signals. Eating in a prescribed way tunes out signals
that you are hungry or full because they are contrary to the diet. When you
ignore them too long, you soon become unable to recognize body signals.
5- Dieting is a compulsive behavior. If you area perfectionist at all, you
probably demand that you diet perfectly. Eating any food that is not on the diet
leads you to becoming so angry with yourself that you give up dieting.
6- Dieting makes you dependent. Unless you create the diet by yourself for your
particular needs, you are using a diet that some authority devised. This implies
that you do not know what is best for you body and you cannot trust you body to
tell you when and how much to eat.
7- Dieting tends to classify foods.
8- Dieting can lead to increased weight. When you lose weight your metabolic
rate decreases to compensate. When you go off a diet and increase your eating,
your metabolism is no longer high enough to burn off the added calories. You
gain again and the new weight stays. Over a period of years your weight goes up
instead of down because of inconsistent eating.
9- Dieting leads to overeating. For all of the above reasons you are unable to
diet for long. When you go off a diet or temporarily lose your resolve you may
experience tremendous feelings of deprivation and resentment and this becomes a
trigger to overeat. Restrictive diets have been shown to dampen appetite when
intake is low but when the diet is stopped, the appetite soars. STARVING LEADS
TO STUFFING