Posted on 01/01/2022 8:20:11 AM PST by Mariner
It's resolution time again, and if you’re like most people, eating “better” may be one of your goals for the new year. According to a survey on 2021 resolutions, the most common commitments people made were to exercise more (46 percent), improve their diet (45 percent), or lose weight (44 percent).
In fact, as many as 45 million Americans begin a diet each year. But research shows that weight-loss diets just don't work. They’re unsustainable and you're likely to regain the weight.
What if, instead of plotting how you'll restrict your calories in the new year, you resolved to feel good about the food you eat?
That's the advice of eating psychology expert Elise Museles, author of Food Story: Rewrite the Way You Eat, Think & Live. Museles encourages readers to consider their personal food stories--how they were raised around food, their ideas and rules about diet, and the emotions they feel when they’re eating--both positive and negative. She says discovering your story about food is key to creating a healthy new narrative about what, why, when, and where to eat.
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Diets work, every time with every person...especially when combined with exercise. If it didn't work for you it's because of insufficient will to follow through.
You spent 40+ years gaining that 40 extra pounds of fat. Yet you will whine if you can't drop it all in the first month?
A pound a week. A 300 calorie daily deficit.
That deficit can come as the result of eating less, or moving more.
Anyone can do this.
This article uses the usual contemporary “there should be no standards and everything is okay” perspective. Reject it.
Cut processed food.
Drink water.
Walk a mile a day or at least every other day.
You will lose weight.
It's simple.
It's free.
And anyone can do it.
correct to 500 calorie daily deficit
Everyone has a different way to get to the diet and exercise you describe. Food is an emotional thing for many people and giving a different perspective of how to go about it may help someone.
Nothing wrong with throwing some woo woo in the mix if it gets a person going in the right direction.
Diet is what you eat.. If you’re fat today, 1 Jan 2022, you will be fat 1 Jan 2023....
This article uses the usual contemporary “there should be no standards and everything is okay” perspective. Reject it.
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A strict diet observed with discipline does work. Personal standards are required. Having a goal is futility without them. It’s like having a good strategy with terrible tactics. Most people have very little self-control, or even self-awareness
So many get their excess calories from alcohol.
On average, 125Kcal per beer.
100 per glass of wine. 100 per shot.
Somebody who “averages” 4 beers per day is consuming the 500 empty calories that, without them, would result in the loss of a pound of fat per week.
The biggest problem diets have is people consider them temporary. They do this diet until they reach some target then go back to “normal”. Normal is how they needed to diet. You gotta change permanently. Or don’t. Honestly he’s kind of right, if you’re not going to make the permanent change then learn to be OK with who you are.
Cut alcohol. That is the biggest source of totally empty calories for many people.
“If you’re fat today, 1 Jan 2022, you will be fat 1 Jan 2023....”
Bullshit.
That is true only for the weak.
This guy is either an idiot, or deep in the pockets of Big Ag.
Diets work temporarily.
If you want/need something long-lasting, change your lifestyle, including your diet/nutrition, exercise habits.
Lifestyle changes succeed long-term.
People who diet thing and talk about food constantly, people who don’t don’t.
Intermitten Fasting is the way to go.
Same can be said of sodas.
If you’re eating the same food in 2023 you’re eating today...yes. You will get the same result.
About to begin the 21 day Daniel fast....I’ve never failed to drop 10-13 lbs. Every time......it’s really nothing more than eating healthy........having said that, God gave me canine teeth reason. Lol
Well if you’re an expert, then I certainly don’t have to think for myself.
(...says the intended reading audience of this piece.)
I understand what he means by “diets don’t work”. He is not saying don’t eat healthy or you can’t use concepts from Keto or Atkins. Many if not most people who “diet” go to some rigid specific plan they can sustain, either because they just aren’t up to it or they go all in too fast and they don’t slowly build good habits.
I get what he means.
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