Why Diets Don’t Work.

You wouldn’t be reading this article if diets worked. Diets can’t, and don’t, work. Here’s why: Pause for a moment. If all these so called quick weight loss diets actually worked as promised, then the current problem we have with obesity would not be anywhere near as bad as it is now – if it existed at all. Instead, what have we got? Well, the hard facts of the matter are that over 60 percent (that 2 out of every 3 adults) are overweight or obese.

Even more worryingly, the problem is on the increase. The obesity epidemic has increased more than 4 times during the last 3 decades. At any point in time, 20 percent of women (that’s one in five) are on some kind of diet; and frighteningly enough the figure for teenage girls on a diet is almost the same. More worryingly, girls as young as nine actively consider dieting. In the US alone. 45 per cent of women are on a diet on any given day. Does that sound like resounding success to you?

Diets are so ineffective in controlling weight that around 95 per cent of people who go on one end up just as fat a year later (and sometimes fatter too). Around half of the people who embark on a diet quit within a few weeks.

Here’s my friend’s story:

I’m 39 and have been obese for at least ten years. I am now 17 stone 3 lb (110,4 kg). I’ve tried every diet under the sun, but none have been a long-term success. On most I managed to lose only 1-2 stone (6-13 kg), but I always seem to end up putting all of the weight back on again, plus more. I’ve become depressed about my weight and how I consistently fail to shift it. I can see why I should be able to do something about it, but I just don’t have the drive to do anything about it any more. Being overweight has depressed me throughout my whole adult life. Over the last five years it’s got even worse.

Everything I’ve tried has failed. During the fast six months I’ve sought help from my doctor, a specialist and a hypnotherapist. None have helped. You’re my last hope.

Still Steadily Losing Weight

She knows that her weight will naturally stabilize around her ideal. If it’s a little more, so what? A little less, so much the better. She is no longer obsessed by either her weight or her food. She doesn’t suffer from depression, anxiety or guilt. Instead, she focuses on seizing all that life has to offer in the secure knowledge that she’s losing weight steadily and healthily.

Since contacting me, Johanna has enrolled on a health research program I told her about. She’s been losing weight in a steady, healthy way ever since. She completed the program in one month as planned and lost 7 lb (3.2 kg) in weight. Five months later she had lost a further 2 stone (15.5 kg). And guess what? She is still steadily losing weight because of the long-term lifestyle changes made possible by following a healthy and normal eating plan.

My friend now realizes the reasons why diets have never worked for her, for you, or for practically anyone else.

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