Diets, Diets, and More Diets!

There are so many diets out there today, that it is so hard to figure out which diet to go on. About 45 million Americans attempt to diet each year, and spend 33 billion dollars on weight loss products, (“NUTRITION AND WEIGHT MANAGEMENT” n.d.). People are desperate to lose weight.

But it seems that we are losing the battle! According to the CDC, 71.6% of adults 20 years old and older are overweight or obese. And that data was captured in 2015-2016. If we are spending 33 billion dollars each year on weight loss products, we clearly are not keeping our weight off. Evidently, the solution is not in diets.

With each new trendy diet that comes on the market, people are enticed into trying something new. Sometimes, we get desperate and feel like, “Maybe if I try this new diet, I can get my weight off and keep it off!” That’s the problem, many of us can’t keep the weight off long-term.

Remember, the diet industry is a business. A billion-dollar business! The industry has different types of diets that you may be familiar with and that you may have tried throughout the years, like…

 

How are we supposed to choose, right? Many people choose diets that others are on because they’ve been successful in losing weight. They figure, “if it worked for them, it should work for me too.” However, that’s not necessarily true.

Over the years, I’ve figured out that flour and sugar are my issues, and that it is impossible for me to keep my weight off when I went off a diet.  As soon as I lost my weight and I allowed myself to eat something sweet or eat something with flour in it, my weight started shooting back up again.

Many people just don’t realize the addictiveness of sugar and flour.

This is why it is so important to choose a lifestyle of healthy eating. Dieting has to stop because it simply doesn’t work in the long run. Think about it. A typical diet has a beginning and an ending. What do we typically do when the diet is over?

We go right back to the way we ate before the diet. And our weight starts climbing again.

It’s all about lifestyle.

Are you looking for another diet or have you chosen to eat healthy as a lifestyle?  Or are you struggling to eat healthy?

Please leave a comment. I’d love to hear from you.

Cynthia

 

 

 

“NUTRITION AND WEIGHT MANAGEMENT” n.d., Retrieved from https://www.bmc.org/nutrition-and-weight-management/weight-management