Check out any book store and there will be no shortage of diet books available for you to buy.
The key to selling a diet book, is to give it a unique hook. Mediterranean Diet, Low Carb Diet, Food Combining, Calorie Shifting, chances are there is a diet book for just about anything you can think of.
So let me ask you a question. Why are there so many diet books on the market ? And if diets work, why is the population getting fatter ?
The main issue lies with the fact that diets restrict and deprive. Trying to stop eating the foods we love, just won’t work for any sustained period of time. Yes we may stick to it for a few weeks, but eventually the wheels come off.
For some reason, the weight loss industry like to make weight loss complicated. The more rules the better. ” Eat 6 small meals a day ” Don’t Eat Refined Carbs ” ” Don’t Eat After 5pm ”
What I mention here is only a selection of the pointless rules you will see in any ” new” diet plan
Here is what you have to remember. No matter how many rules these diets plans want to show, the only proven nutritional method of weight loss, is prolonged caloric restriction.
Somewhere along the line, weight loss was made complicated, but in actual fact, weight loss is very simple. you need to find a way to eat less calories than your body needs over a prolonged period in order to lose weight.
Just to be clear I am not saying weight loss is easy, I am saying that it is simple. There is a difference. If you understand that weight loss is more about how much you eat, rather than what you eat, you will be more likely to have success with your own weight loss efforts.
After years of trying different diets, it was only when I became a retired dieter, that I finally started to lose the weight. Once I realised that it was not what about what I ate,but rather how much I ate, my relationship with food changed, and I started to see the weight finally come off.
I lost over 65lbs once I stopped going on diets. Not only did I lose that weight, but I have been able to keep it off for more than a year.
So my take home message to you, is stop going on diets and first just learn to eat less. Know what your daily BMR level is, and then go from there. It worked for me, it can for you too.
Dave Ward writes provides weight loss advice on his weight loss blog Retired Dieter. Use his BMR Calculator to work out your daily calorie requirments