Dieting Can Make You Fat!

Some people say that “diet” is the dirtiest word in the dictionary. Maybe. And for lots of people, it is one of the most feared! But most important - for all of us – the word “diet” is the most misused and abused word in the language. If you’ve ever tried one of the most popular diets of the week – like the Atkins Diet, or the South Beach Diet, or NutriSystem and Jenny Craig, or the Grapefruit Diet, or the low fat/high protein diet or the low protein/high fat diet or the all-pizza-all-day diet (hey - it’s out there), then you know just what I mean – diets don’t work!

Any diet program that you decide to follow until you reach your goal is destined to fail. Any change in your eating habits that you undertake, knowing from the start that it’s only temporary, is a game. And any diet that totally eliminates one nutrient in favor of another, is just playing havoc with your health.

Actually, the only diet that will do exactly what it says it will do is the “Yo-yo Diet.” You’re up, you’re down; you’re high, you’re low; you’re on, you’re off; you’re wound up tight, you’re bottomed out…and then it starts all over again.

OK, you’re still not sure that all diets don’t work? And you don’t really see how diets can make you fat?

Let’s take a look. Remember how you felt on your last diet? Deprived. Depressed. Getting more and more desperate. You watched every ounce and pound, counting the days til you could stop…and eat again. Finally, you lost the 8 pounds, or 10 pounds or 20. You were so glad it was over. And so proud. Now this calls for a celebration, yea? And what’s a celebration without an extra large pizza! Or a double cheese-burger with a shake and fries! Just this once. Well, maybe a little pasta tomorrow night, too.

So how long did it take for the euphoria to turn into anesthesia? You felt no pain as you packed on the pounds again, with a little extra. Then you started feeling the pain again. And the disillusionment and the depression as you loosened your belt and began looking for your next diet. Enough already!

Perhaps it’s time to look at the situation from another perspective, the whole picture. No one goes to bed one night and wakes up the next morning 10 pounds heavier. It was a long term process. It involved more sitting and less walking, more TV and less exercise, more pasta, pizza and processed or fast foods and less natural nutrition. So what can you do to reverse it? First, you can accept that a new “diet” won’t fix it and then you can learn how a shift in your eating lifestyle will. “Eating lifestyle”…something that’s yours forever.

What would you say if I told you that there is a simple and natural way of eating designed specifically for you? Foods that are perfect for your body, your needs, your genetics, your total health. What if I say that you will never have to count calories again, that some of you might need more good fats to help heal your body and that you are to avoid so called "healthy foods" that are processed and labeled "no sugar," “low fat” or “light?” And what if I also say that you will have more energy, better health, increased mental clarity, less food cravings and attain your ideal weight in less time and with less stress than on any fad diet? Now that would be interesting, wouldn’t it?

Well, I am saying it. And in the next article, I’ll tell you how it’s done. Please come back and read, “You Are What Your Grandmother Eats!” You’ll never think of Grandma the same.

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