Diets & Weight Loss: The $38 Billion Question For Success
It’s estimated that Americans spend $38 billion a year on weight loss products and services. Yet, 65% of American adults are overweight.
As everyone who’s familiar with I Love to Cheat knows, I believe in losing weight by cheating with good food and enjoying your diet.
Many other people find success with Weight Watchers. Although it doesn’t work for everyone.
Then there are the programs that sell prepackaged meals. They’re expensive. But for some people, they work.
But one of the major criticisms of those programs is that people often regain the weight after they stop buying the meals. Because they haven’t learned the skills to eat sensibly on their own.
So how do you choose the right diet or weight loss program for you?
I believe it starts with answering one question — the $38 billion question you should always ask before choosing a weight loss program…
“If you had to eat according to the rules and restrictions of your diet plan or weight loss system EVERY DAY FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE, could you do it?”
Now think about every diet that’s failed you… all the restrictions you tried to live with — low carb, low fat, severely restricted calories, no white foods, no eating after 7PM… the list goes on and on.
So why did you regain the weight with those diets? You broke the rules, didn’t you?
Well, it’s not your fault.
Hardly anyone can live with severe diet rules and restrictions for their entire lives. Most people only last a couple of months, if that long.
Then they’re back to their old habits. And their weight piles back on.
Does that mean you have to formally diet for the rest of your life?
No. But you should be able to instinctively eat as though you were on the diet after you reach your target weight.
If you can’t or you don’t want to, you’ll regain the weight.
Which is why Americans spend $38 billion a year on weight loss and they’re still overweight.
So before you choose a new diet… or before you give up on losing weight because your old diet plan didn’t work for you… ask yourself the $38 billion question.
You might save some cash. And you’ll have a much better chance of losing the weight. Permanently.
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January 28th, 2007 at 7:35 pm
I’ve never been on a diet where I didn’t regain the weight. But I see what you’re saying. I just don’t know how to do it. How does someone find a diet that’s right for them. Exactly what do you do?
January 28th, 2007 at 8:07 pm
Hi Sue,
I’ll post some tips on exactly what I would look for in a diet or weight loss program. See if you agree with them and if they’ll help you.
But I’d always use this one question to weed out the wrong diet plans from the beginning.
That’s how I came to develop my own plan. One of my family members just couldn’t live with all the rules and restrictions. And when I finally got something to work for her, I realized I’d been needlessly torturing myself for a lot of years as well.
Diets don’t have to seem like a punishment for gaining weight.
January 29th, 2007 at 8:04 pm
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