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Diet State of Mind & Weight Loss

When you need to lose weight, what do you do? Find a diet and try it. Lose some weight, then gain it back after your diet is over. Then what do you do? Find another diet and try it. Lose some weight. Gain it back.

Panic sets in. You get caught in a cycle of losing-gaining, and your weight becomes a constant preoccupation in your daily life. You talk about dieting all the time. You dread looking in the mirror, and if you do, you stop looking at yourself from the neck down. Secretly, you might think there's something wrong with you, your thyroid, your metabolism, or your genetic history, even though your doctor assures you there's nothing wrong with you except your excess weight that invites health risks (hypertension, diabetes, heart disease and cancer).

You're caught in a dilemma. You need to lose weight, but don't know which diet to trust, because so many have failed you. You dread the idea of another diet, feeling deprived and guilty. You might think it's better to stay fat than face another failure. Or you might think something extreme is the solution, surgery to remove fat, or a year on retreat with a diet guru.

A high price to pay for a weight problem. One of the biggest problems dieters face in their efforts to lose weight isn't willpower or food, or the war they wage with their own body system. It's the nature of "dieting" itself.

Dieting alone cannot insure long-term weight control. The best a diet can do is help you lose weight, with no guarantee that you'll be able to maintain your goal weight after you struggled so hard to achieve it, even if the diet is a good one. And if the diet is a poor one, or a fad diet, the problems increase tenfold. You can deplete your health, diminish the power of your metabolism, increase your stress, and degrade your self-esteem with another failure.

You Need More Than a Diet to Lose Weight

The failure rate of diets in the United States is 95%, as a result of poor dieting practices. In fact, diet success is less than 5% in people who make "real" efforts, and less than 1 % are able to achieve long-term weight maintenance.

When you need to lose weight, what should you do? Ask yourself three important questions:

• Do I want to lose weight, only to regain it?
• Do I want to lose weight at any price, sacrificing my health and nutritional status?
• Can I afford the emotional price of another failure?

If you answered NO to all three questions; you need more than a "diet" to resolve your weight problem. If you answered YES or MAYBE to one of the questions, you're locked in a "diet" state of mind, and you need more than a diet to release you from failure-oriented thinking.

If you want to keep your weight off for life, if you want to improve your health, nutrition and sense of well-being, and if you want to succeed instead of fail, you need to avoid failure-oriented diets, and choose a success-oriented weight management program. But first, you need to know the difference! The following pages will help you.