You may have heard this alarming statistic before.that "95% of all diets fail"
I didn’t make it up. Let’s look at just a few numbers. Statistics show that about 40,000 people per year reach their weight loss goal. But when you consider programs like Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig, NutriSystem and The Zone have millions of people who participate in their programs, that number is mighty insignificant and downright discouraging. Only 40,000 people out of
millions reach their weight loss goal!
If you’re the one who is standing on the springboard of a new diet program, seeing a statistic like this can be deflating. It doesn’t motivate many people to even try to lose weight because a vast majority of those who diet and lose even a little weight will eventually put all that weight (and many times more) back on as soon as they stop dieting. Bingo!
Therein lies the problem. Diets are doomed to fail right from the start because most people view diets as a short term solution, something they can follow for a set period of time to get the desired results and then just stop. Sure, anyone can be motivated to follow a diet plan for a few weeks or even a few months. But unless it’s a diet plan they can follow for life, they’re doomed to fail. It doesn’t really matter if you believe that statistic or not. Quite frankly, it could easily be that 99% of all diets fail, or maybe even closer to 90%. But ask yourself this. Do you want to be in the percentage that fail? You wouldn’t be reading this blog if you did.
If you want to lose weight and keep that weight off, you need to stop thinking of a diet as a temporary fix. Everyone follows some form of a diet whether they know it or not. Unfortunately, most people follow an “unhealthy” diet which leads to weight gain, high blood sugar, and for some, obesity, high blood pressure and heart disease.
If you want to lose weight and keep that weight off, you need to stop thinking of a diet as a temporary fix. Everyone follows some form of a diet whether they know it or not. Unfortunately, most people follow an “unhealthy” diet which leads to weight gain, high blood sugar, and for some, obesity, high blood pressure and heart disease.
Weight gain is the product of not paying attention to what you put in your body, how often you do it and when. It’s a bad habit to get into, even if you’ve never struggled with your weight. Bad eating habits don’t always just promote weight gain. They also produce long term health problems, such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, constipation, fatty liver, heart disease and more.
You may be feeling great because you’ve lost a few pounds on one of those Internet FAD diets you tried. Well, good for you. It’s always good to celebrate your successes.
But I guarantee you this. If you stop following that diet, and go back to your old eating habits, very soon you’ll find yourself on the wrong side of that diet failure statistic.
When you crash diet, you put your metabolism on a roller coaster ride. Instead of speeding up and giving your body more energy, the lower calorie intake that normally goes with a crash diet puts your body in “famine” mode. Your body will hold onto whatever “energy” it has. That energy is stored in fat cells. That’s why it takes more calories to lose weight than gain weight. Your body doesn’t want to let go of what it knows it needs to survive.
If you want to succeed in your diet, you have to stop thinking of FAD diets as the answer to your problem.
You need to think long term, healthy eating that will help promote a healthy metabolism, not send it into shock. You also have to look at your lifestyle and learn how to incorporate fat burning exercises into your daily life so you not only lose weight, but you maintain that weight loss for life.
But I guarantee you this. If you stop following that diet, and go back to your old eating habits, very soon you’ll find yourself on the wrong side of that diet failure statistic.
When you crash diet, you put your metabolism on a roller coaster ride. Instead of speeding up and giving your body more energy, the lower calorie intake that normally goes with a crash diet puts your body in “famine” mode. Your body will hold onto whatever “energy” it has. That energy is stored in fat cells. That’s why it takes more calories to lose weight than gain weight. Your body doesn’t want to let go of what it knows it needs to survive.
If you want to succeed in your diet, you have to stop thinking of FAD diets as the answer to your problem.
You need to think long term, healthy eating that will help promote a healthy metabolism, not send it into shock. You also have to look at your lifestyle and learn how to incorporate fat burning exercises into your daily life so you not only lose weight, but you maintain that weight loss for life.
