Dieting Doesn't Work
(in the long run) L
osing weight is something with which most of us are familiar. And when we want to lose weight, we resort to dieting and/or deprivation in order to get the weight off. In fact, many of us hold the belief that if we want to lose weight, the only way to lose weight is through dieting and feeling deprived. So we begin the process by choosing a diet and depriving ourselves of certain foods, usually using willpower to do so. The interesting thing is that we set our mind on following the diet until we lose the amount of weight which we have set as our goal. But what happens once we lose the weight? At that point, we often revert back to our old eat- ing habits, the very habits that caused the weight gain in the first place. This happens because the diet requires
deprivation and the mind does not like being deprived. It often will allow the deprivation for a length of time which may or may not get us to our goal weight. And if we were successful at reaching our goal weight, when a big stressor happens in our life, we will often begin eating our comfort foods again as well as begin putting the weight back on that we worked so hard to lose. This is often the beginning of yo-yo dieting and we step on the hamster wheel of losing and gaining the same weight over and over again. We were successful once, so we start again, but the next time is often harder. Or, we are able to muster the strength and willpower to try again. This is one reason why, in the long run, diets don’t work.
In 1959, a study was done that found
that 95% of all dieters regain the weight they lose within one year. I have seen this in my own practice where more than one of my clients lost over 100 pounds and a year later began putting the weight back on. In the US today, there are 45 million people dieting but are either not losing the weight or not keeping the weight off. The following are some of the reasons
that research has uncovered as to why diets don’t work:
1. Dieting is a stressor to our body. During times of stress our body pro- duces stress hormones and these hor- mones aid in helping our body to hold onto excess fat stores rather than get- ting rid of them.
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