Starting Another Diet in 2020? Stop Dieting and Start Eating Healthy
Is your weight still an issue for you in 2020? Do certain foods seem to call you by name until you give in to it? This is usually the reason why people make weight-loss resolutions year after year. When you are trapped in a cycle of eating and dieting, it is hard to dig your way out of it. As a result, losing weight will always be on your yearly resolution list.
You are not alone!
Holiday Eating
The holiday season is one of the hardest times to stay on a healthy eating plan. Food is all around you. Co-workers invite you to participate in holiday potlucks and holiday parties. Family and friends invite you to their houses or to gatherings to eat and celebrate. It’s hard to say, “no” to all the goodies, so you make excuses and indulge.
Then, after the holidays, you find yourself searching for another diet.
Weight-Loss Commercials
Several new weight-loss commercials that came out at the end of 2019 to prepare people to buy their products in hopes of fulfilling their 2020 new year’s resolutions. One company is advertising a high-priced stationary bike, with a video of live or taped classes and another company is selling a psychological app. that can be downloaded on your phone. There is still another company promising to take off that stubborn fat that you just can’t seem to take off by exercising.
If you diet throughout the year and consistently make losing weight part of your new year’s resolution, diet products, and exercise equipment just won’t work in the long run. If they did, weight-loss would no longer be your list of new year’s resolutions. The reality is that if weight has been an issue for you year after year, there is a deeper issue.
Addictiveness of Certain Foods
For many people, eating foods that are loaded with sugar, flour, and fat produces cravings for more and they become addicted to them. This is why these types of foods keep you going back for more. Foods like, ice cream, cookies, cakes, pies, pizza, chips, French fries, etc. 1Studies have shown the addictiveness of sugar & processed foods.
2020 Goals
In 2020, make eating healthy be your goal. If you continue to eat foods high in sugar, flour, and fat, it can lead to Type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure. Which one of these conditions do you want to have? Right, none of them!
Isn’t it time for you to take control of your health and stop letting food control you?
In 2020, it’s time to start living a healthy lifestyle that includes eating foods that are good for your body. A healthy food plan includes food from the following 5 food groups:
- Lean protein
- Vegetables
- Grains
- Fruit
- Dairy
ChooseMyPlate.gov (2018, December 14)
If you are not used to eating vegetables, no worries! Vegetables don’t have to be breaded or bland to taste good. They can be well-seasoned as well as healthy. If you’d like free simple recipes for well-seasoned vegetables, join me on my Youtube channel, Breaking Chains of Food Addiction with Cynthia Miller https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaL63xrobE_Al7Z4r0S7jWA/featured
If you are a person who can’t just have one cookie or a piece of candy, consider abstaining from flour and sugar products altogether. That may sound drastic, but it’s really not. Think about it. If food controls you, it’s a problem.
If your cravings for cake, donuts, candy, and processed foods are too intense for you to stop eating them on your own, try getting support to help you abstain from these types of foods. There are some free programs that will give you the tools needed to help you from eating addictively. Don’t hesitate or put off looking into the programs listed below. Find one that will give you the tools that you need so that you can live your best life!
Cynthia
Reference links:
1 https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/how-to-overcome-food-addiction
