No More Dieting
To stay healthy it is important to follow a healthy lifestyle every day. This involves permanently changing our eating and exercising habits.
In her blog post, ‘Diet’ Is A Horrible Word, Darya Pino maintains that when one says they are going on a diet they mean they are intending to change their eating habits temporarily in order to lose weight. However, the biggest problem with dieting is that many people find they put on weight again when they finish their diet. In some cases, they even end up weighing more than they did before they began their diet.
This is why it is so important to make sure that any changes to one’s diet are permanent. This rules out fad diets like the banana diet, the baby food diet, the Atkins diet or any other short term change in eating habits. The diet one adopts must be something that can provide all the nutrients our body needs and must be something we can follow for the rest of our lives. Otherwise we will fall off the bandwagon and the weight will creep back on again.
Therefore, lets throw out the diet and concentrate more on filling our bodies with good food like whole grains, fruit, vegetables and lean meats and throw out the sugar and fat laden foods found in fizzy drinks, cakes, biscuits, crisps and fast food.
Make a permanent change in your eating habits and get fit this summer!
June 3, 2009 9:29 am 10 Comments
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darya, June 4, 2009 @ 3:50 pm
Hooray! Love the plan to upgrade your healthstyle!! For me, a shift like this has really been synonymous with freedom: freedom to eat what I love and enjoy my life without being a slave to food. I am also free to fit into my smallest jeans ever
xoxoxo
Bean Fairbanks, June 4, 2009 @ 5:56 pm
To me, this just makes common sense. As you pointed out, diets are perceived and treated as temporary torture but what is really needed is a healthy perspective and lifestyle.
Terry Armstrong, June 7, 2009 @ 11:07 pm
I love your blog! You are definitely right, fad diets don’t work, a healthy everyday diet does.
Jan, June 8, 2009 @ 1:15 am
Darya, thank you for visiting my blog. I find your blog very inspirational and informative. A healthy lifestyle is certainly the best choice to make!
Bean, that is so true. A healthy diet is for life and should not be seen as a temporary fix.
Terry, thank you for visiting and for your comment. You are right about fad diets.
Sliloh, June 8, 2009 @ 3:12 am
Good points here. I have that problem in reverse, putting it on and keeping it on for exactly that same reason.
Anita
Jan, June 8, 2009 @ 10:15 am
Good to hear you are eating good stuff, Anita. I wish I had the problem of not putting on weight but it seems to cling to me too readily.
Val P., June 8, 2009 @ 11:04 pm
Great way to get started on your blog! I was on “diets” for the first 30 years of my life to gain weight, then suddenly I didn’t have that problem any more. It didn’t take too many years of eating the way I’d always eaten to put on almost 80 pounds. I’ve managed to drop 20 of them and keep them off, but just can’t seem to get below that mark for very long. Another 15-20 would put me back to if not “ideal”, at least not too overweight either. I try, but living sociable in Alabama doesn’t exactly lend itself to healthy eating.
Glad you’re headed the right way anyway!
Jan, June 10, 2009 @ 3:30 pm
Thanks for visiting Val. Many people seem to find weight control more difficult as they get older. I wish you luck in losing those extra few pounds.
Thank you for the pingback to my blog. Now I know what it looks like!