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Is Dieting the Answer for Weight Loss and Obesity?For those seeking permanent weight loss, dieting alone is rarely the answer. As distinct from "dieting" per se, permanent weight loss or control of obesity requires a lifetime commitment to the pursuit of health. It means a full scale commitment to habit and lifestyle change in many areas, including dietary, physical activity, spiritual and emotional wellbeing, and more. It is for this reason that "dieting" has been proven in study after study after study after study to almost always fail other than in the short term for almost everyone. Different 'experts' quote different variables, but all giving the same general story - that around 90% of people who lose weight by following a set diet regain all the weight and more again within about two years. Diet is certainly essential for weight loss. "Dieting" isn't. There are few diets ever promoted that are sustainable long term. Despite the accusations of ney-sayers who accuse people who can't stick to a "diet" for a long period of time as being weak-willed, most popular diets deprive a person of nutrition, and the body will cry out for nutrients before malnutrition and degenerative diseases begin to kick in. (OK - people who cannot even stick to a diet for a short period may very well be weak-willed, and probably need psychological or other support mechanisms to begin the process.) Sensible and healthy eating involves moderating calories/kilojoules - but not chopping out essential nutients such as certain vitamins, minerals, amino acids or fatty acids. Rather than the rigidness of a "diet", your long term health and weight control requires health-centric guidelines and boundaries in relation to food and drink intake. There is no end to the number of "weight loss diets" promoted, coming into and out of fashion. The litmus test for a sound diet is whether it is promoted as a component of an overall habit reforming lifestyle plan (incorporating physical activity, dietary considerations, spiritual and emotional wholeness) AND whether you believe all the habit reforms including dietary are sustainable long term - even years after you have lost your excess weight. Always remember that the key to success in weight loss is to NOT concentrate or emphasise or even measure your success in terms of lost weight. Your real objective is to maximise your health in every sense of the term. Eventually, loss of body fat (as distinct from mere "weight loss" which is all too often emphasised and commercialised, yet is often just fluid loss and muscle wastage with little or no loss of body fat) will follow and will be sustainable long term. |
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