To say to yourself: “I must reduce the volume of what I eat”, or: “I must stop eating certain things”, is to make a genuine sacrifice. From that point on, you feel deprived and miserable. Instead of seeming less precious to us, food is only ten times more expensive, and we are all the more frustrated. It is a vicious cycle, a chain reaction comparable to the torture endured by smokers who use their will to quit. Sooner or later our resistance gives way and we wallow in an orgy of food.
When we are
on a diet, we are constantly hungry. Our whole life is dominated by the idea of
the next meal.
We are
desperate because we are not allowed to eat and when this precious meal finally
arrives, we are even more desperate, either because we are not allowed to eat
enough to appease our appetite, or because that we don't like what we are
entitled to. Also, we usually feel guilty because we consume more than our diet
allows us to.
When you
are not on a diet, you can skip a dish or even a meal without it being a big
loss.
But if we
skip a meal while on a diet, we mentally give ourselves a credit and we promise
to make up for it at the next meal. When you are on a diet, you never consume
less than your quota of calories, on the contrary; we often swallow much more.
We now know
that the vast majority of diet attempts have the long-term effect of gaining
weight instead of losing it. If you analyze the underlying psychology, it's not
surprising.
And even if
you've had the superhuman will and discipline to avoid any deviations and
achieve the weight goal you've set for yourself, what happens? We finished our
diet. At least we can start eating again when we want and, surprise, surprise!
before understanding what is happening to us, we find ourselves at our starting
weight! All these weeks that seemed to last for years, these weeks of
discipline, torture, deprivation, swept away in a few days!
Let's face
it: the only effect of diets is to make what we eat seem more precious, and to
turn the very act of eating into a nightmare. The action of going on a diet,
and the feeling of deprivation, of distress, of possible failure that
accompanies it, ends up making us dread the idea of losing weight. We have to
get used to it: DIETS CANNOT WORK. Our real problem lies in the way we eat. We therefore
need to change our eating habits.


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