For us, it has been a change of eating habits...it's not something we will ever be able to stop completely...That's why I don't think about it as a diet, but as a change. "Dieting" is something that for me anyway, I thought of as something I'm doing now, but once I reach my goal, I'll be able to stop....of course that doesn't work. It has to be a change that you can live with all your life.
The longer we eat like this the less we want to go out to eat, the less we want to eat junk. Because for both Mack and I anyway, we physically were feeling so bad before, that we were losing the ability to do the things we wanted to do. It's a choice we had to make. I think most people are like we were. They won't make the change till they HAVE to, and even then it's hard. But the longer you do it the easier it gets.
Becky
I agree with you 100%. Last fall I lost 20 pounds in 3 months just by cutting out carbs. I allowed myself one "bad" day a week. We would have Pizza or maybe even a bowl of ice cream. I know carbs like sugars and breads are my weakness and have to work hard to limit them. I also felt mentally and physically bad over the winter eating such high carb foods. Where I work we have quarterly "snack days" and the smell of food is tough but as long as I don't give in I am ok. Just in the last two weeks I feel so much better. My joints don't ache as much and I feel so much better. It is a lifestyle change, but you can venture out of that lifestyle occassionally, just make sure you go back.