How To Diet

The reason most diets fail is simply one can not go from one style of eating to another without dislocation and depression. You've seen people lose weight, then gain it all back, because the root problem is their relationship with food.

Some people eat when they are depressed. Until they stop eating when they are depressed, they will always put back the weight they've lost. Some people find the slightest hunger pang a terrifying experience. These people will never be able to lose weight until they can no longer see being hungry as imminent death.

Some people don't know when to stop eating. If you put a pound of food on their plate, they will eat it. If they could buy smaller plates and take smaller portions, their problem would be solved.

So before you enter a diet, simply understand why you are eating. Deal with that problem first.

Perhaps if you take up a hobby which occupies your hands, then when you are upset, you will turn to your hobby, not the fridge. Perhaps if you accepted hunger pangs, and ignored them, or drank water, setting yourself a time to eat, and not eating until that time, you would be able to overcome your fear of starvation. Perhaps if you were capable of dividing the food on your plate, and saving a portion for tomorrow, you would not be the human garbage disposal.

Changing your relationship to eating is how you begin a diet and maintain your new weight.

The next thing is to go in stages. Slowly removing certain things from your diet, such as soft drinks. Substitute water. Don't order a soft drink, order water. Break yourself into the habit of drinking water. It is good for you, good for your body, your complexion as sodas are not.

Forget dessert. You don't need it. You've eaten your food, you don't need that cake or candy.

Take wash outs; that is spend one day a week, at the beginning of your diet, detoxing.

Stop eating on a Friday afternoon, take your "wash out" in the evening, and spend Saturday visiting the little room, while consuming nothing but unsweetened fruit juice. On Sunday break your fast with a little whole grain cereal and light meals. It is very important to cleanse your system.

Prepare to diet by cutting down on your intake. If you normally have two pieces of bread, have one. If you normally have a cheese burger for lunch, go to a large salad. Cut down.

It doesn't matter what you ate before, eat less of it now. You want to shrink your stomach and appetite. Once you've gotten control of your stomach, your relationship to food, then you can embark on a diet, knowing you will be successful.