Diets are NOT Lifestyle Changes
April 162008

I’ve tried every diet on the market. I have tried just about all of the diets that are out there being advertised. I buy the packaged foods or pay for the delivery, or go get the diet shakes or meal replacements, and then eat it when they tell me to, and sometimes I even manage to do at least some of the exercise they recommend.
The minutes I stop following their plan religiously, the weight comes back. Drinking a diet shake or heating up a pre-portioned tray does not teach a person portion control, or how to cope with eating habits in the real world.
I had better luck with the diets that the celebrities follow, or that a book is written about. I feel like I have more control, and I don’t have to pay a lot of money for a packaged meal that doesn’t taste that great. However, these diets require a lot of preparation, weighing or recording all of the food you eat, or only eating certain things at certain times, or giving up food all together.
Is there really a diet that is better for me, and solely due to my astrology sign or because of my blood type?
Again, I would have some success, but it was even easier to cheat- I’d tell myself that I’d start the diet again tomorrow and cheat that day, or that one snack wouldn’t hurt, or that since I was good in the morning, I could eat what I wanted at bedtime.
It was a lot easier to just microwave the pre-portioned meals, but when I did make an effort to stick to a celebrity diet and actually do everything recommended, instead of adding in foods not on the diet or eating things I liked better instead, I was able to lose weight. The problem was that I didn’t get the reinforcement I needed to continue to make those healthy choices, so if I wasn’t really watchful, I would fall back into my old calorie-laden ways.
The worst were the fad food diets. Being restricted to seven foods was a good way to lose interest in those foods, but then I would start craving something different (and tastier, and more fattening) within days. Those diets were boring and I was so unmotivated to stick with them very long.
Having some computer create a plan, or someone write a book that applies to enough people to buy it isn’t a customized weight-loss plan, it’s a get-skinny-quick scheme that no one can follow and that doesn’t work!
If you want a diet program that really works try Medifast. The Medifast program doesn’t leave you feeling unmotivated, frustrated or like a failure.


