Why you shouldn't diet

The sun is finally shining! Cue the panic setting in of what you might look like on the beach or in a pair of shorts and the decision to go on a crash diet. STOP! Before you set off on whichever crash diet you decide to go for there is something you need to do:

Remove the word diet from your vocabulary and replace it with healthy eating. There's no need to go out and buy all the diet products in the world either. You can lose weight without tablets and eating low fat diet food.

How? Eat real food. Look at what you eat now and work out how much is processed or pre-packed food. Start by removing that from your diet and replacing it with home made fresh produce. For example, the sandwich, crisps and chocolate bar you have for lunch can be replaced by a grilled chicken salad with some nuts and a piece of fruit or full fat yoghurt. Make the salad whilst your cooking dinner the night before to save time and use leftovers as much as you can to save on time and money. When you make your own food, you know exactly what's gone in to it and it's so much cheaper than buying ready meals, take aways or prepared sandwiches and salads etc.

Why shouldn't you eat the diet foods? Food tastes good because it has fat or sugar in it. Both are addictive but sugar is more so than fat. When diet versions of foods are created, they take the fat out and replace it with sugar or artificial ingredients or both. This then creates the taste we expect of the food but leads us to consume more sugar than we anticipate and can start sweet cravings within the body. You start craving junk food and enter the vicious cycle of craving sugar. This cycle has to be broken for you to lose weight.

If you want to lose weight, you have to look at it as a long term lifestyle change and not a short term fix. Crash diets work because in the short term you lose weight but over a longer period of time, you'll put the weight back on and often more because your eating habits haven't changed. Ultimately it is your relationship with food which needs to change.

For more information you can buy my ebook from here or visit the website www.wisechoicenutrition.co.uk and find out more.