Why 99% of Dieters Fail?

TrailRunner61

Someone asked me the other day what the hell my eating was all about. My immediate response was that it's an eating style. I didn't want to say diet. LOL.

You're a smart man. LOL

MaraDiaz

People need to stop using food as entertainment. Of course that is easy for the wealthy, they can afford other forms of entertainment. But the poor need to budget in entertainment of other forms besides food, too.

Food is not entertaining. It just sits there until you eat it. Food is not comforting. It never has anything to say about your woes. It just sits there until you eat it.

So I've learned to find other forms of comfort and entertainment. And I'm very poor. So poor that sometimes I have a choice. Entertainment or enough calories for the week. Guess which I choose in a pinch? I choose to go hungry sometimes.

Oh, and as for stress? Being fat is much more stressful than being thin!

mmahair

For me it's all about Carbs. At one time or another I have tried every diet in the book. I even went as far as having a gastric band put in and I still could not get a grip of my eating and diet. I got up as high as 307. In July my son said he wanted to me look at low carbs and told me how much he has lost and how easily he lost it. I did not believe it because years ago I went on the original Atkins diet which at the time required 2-3 weeks of nothing but meat and cheese and I reacted very badly to it. He shared what he is doing and I tried it. The weight just has been dropping off. I eat all I want, whatever I want, but I keep the carb count down (in my case below 100 per day). That is way more liberal than most low carb diets and I am still having great success. I have lost 57 pounds, 50 of those while on low carbs and I feel great and never feel hungry. After the first few weeks of eating lower carb the cravings for almost everything went away and when I did want something, I just had it in moderation as long as the carbs stayed below 100 per day. I have even had to schedule more cheat days because the weight was falling off too fast. I am hoping and planning to be at 200 or below by this July and I am excited I am getting there. It's not all about calories~!

kbitzonefour

Weak minds fail.

SanteMulberry

I don't know. When I break my diet, it's usually because I say, "kcuf it. I just want to eat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups and Ice Cream." And, then I do. It's not emotional. I just love that stuff so much.

Personally, the occasional Reese's is a regular part of my diet. I don't eliminate any foods that I like. Rather, I fit it in my diet. IIFYM

Even when I was still eating sugar I thought that Reeses's Peanut Butter Cups were revolting (what a way to treat chocolate). :laugh:

SanteMulberry

Skinny people are depressed, emotional, bored, stressed too. They just happen to deal with it differently than fat people do.


A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
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Been in fitness industry for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition

Yes--there are lots of addictions. People use all kinds of "pleasures" to distract themselves from the lack of perfection in their lives. Drugs, alcohol, food, gambling, sex, shopping etc. Runners have a "runner's high" and even anorexic individuals claim to gain pleasure from depriving themselves of food. There is a happier way to live.

quirkytizzy

Food is not entertaining. It just sits there until you eat it. Food is not comforting. It never has anything to say about your woes. It just sits there until you eat it.

I LOVE THIS!