Skip The Diet To Lose The Weight

Skip the diet to lose the weight makes no sense at all, but if you take the word diet out of the equation, and eat healthy to lose weight, then you are more likely to be successful at weight loss. In my mind the word diet is an ending to losing weight, which also relates to my weight loss failures.

So, now you are ready to lose weight, and push yourself where you have not been for a long time? You are going to succeed on this attempt to lose weight, and now you have decided to set healthy weight loss goals. You want to be not only healthy, but you also want to skip any fad diets, and diet products. You want to bypass using any form of stimulants, and not suffer from a raging appetite that is always suggesting food. You decide to…

Go On a Diet?

The number one thing you should skip when trying to lose weight, is a diet. This may seem like it is a play on words but listen to the logic. You want to lose some weight, and the assumption is that you would like to keep the weight off your body for the rest of your soon to be extended life span.

So, if your goal is to lose fifty pounds that is great. What happens if you have no long term plan in play after your weight loss? If you start a diet are you not by definition depriving yourself of something you love to eat? There is actually more than one correct definition for the word diet. Let us look at two of those definitions.

Diet

1. The first definition to discuss is most common to us all. This one refers to the statement that you are going to lose weight, and that you are going to follow a set plan as to what you can, and cannot eat. Examples of this abound all around us. The Atkins’s Diet, the South Beach Diet, The Three Day Diet, The NutriSystem Diet, The LA Diet Plan, The Cabbage Soup Diet. This list could go on for quite awhile, and you could recite your own additions to this list with minimal effort. The point is that the typical definition of diet today brings to mind restrictions of what you can, and cannot eat.
2. The second definition to discuss covers the things that are included in a person’s food consumption. It is almost as if the same word can mean two things that are at complete odds with one another. An example of this would be if you were to discuss the diet of an Eskimo, or the diet of medieval English farmers. This definition includes what people do eat on a daily basis. This second definition does not suggest what they do not eat.

So here you have one word with a constant bout of definition disorder. Before you begin your weight loss journey make it your first goal to accept the fact that it is not a diet you are beginning. It is imperative to your success that you are beginning a new lifestyle.

This lifestyle will not exclude things you love to eat, it will only fit them into your life in a way that is manageable. If you love pizza too much to quit eating it, then do not quit. You must learn to eat it less often, and fit it into your life with an abundance of other choices that are better. To think you can just quit pizza may be absurd for you so why even consider it as relevant, or gauge yourself a failure when you one day stop, and have a slice at the pizza shop? A diet in the restrictive definition exudes failure on an epidemic level. Do not start a diet, start a new lifestyle.

Your goals to lose weight should also include behavior goals, exercise goals and fitness goals.

So skip the diet to lose the weight, and start your new weight loss journey by modifying your diet so that it fits your needs for a healthier new you.