To lose weight you have to change how you think! If you do not change how you think, you will not lose weight and maintain your weight loss.
In the Halifax Today Local News I read a very interesting article, "Women spend 31 years on a diet" or an average of six months a year on a diet. One of ten British women were trying to lose weight and 21% consider themselves to be permanent dieters. This is the week than 75% of dieting women give up their dream of weight loss.
The average diet only lasts 5.48 weeks. Post Christmas diets only last three weeks.
Trying to lose weight by dieting is a form of "messing up". Why?
Dieting is doomed to fail as indicated in my blog, "Don't Risk Your Unconscious Mind Deleting Your Weight Loss".
The article in the Halifax Today Local News documented why dieting fails. 50% of "slimmers" gave up because of a lack of will power. 25% of the "slimmers" gave up, because dieting made them "depressed or moody".
Dieting creates deprivation. What I wrote about in my blog, "Motivations that Create Deprivation", regarding permanently stopping smoking also applies to being permanently thin.
There is a myth about will power. Will power is not necessary for weight loss. Will power is only necessary, because people do not change their overweight thinking. People are overweight, because of their overweight thinking triggers behaviors consistent with being overweight. People need will power to fight against the mind's overweight thinking. Overweight thinking will always win over will power. Replace overweight thinking with thin thinking, and the need for will power diminishes.
Depression and moodiness are the psychological results of deprivation thinking. No matter what you are deprived of such as a relationship, for example, the psychological results of deprivation are depression, moodiness, anger, anxiety and other disturbing emotions. Fulfilling thinking needs to replace deprivation thinking for permanent weight loss.
Deprivation thinking creates failure. Deprivation thinking actually increases the urge for over-eating. The unconscious and conscious mind are motivated to restore a state of deprivation.
My blog, Dr. Hyman and Starvation Diets, pointed out that the unconscious and conscious mind will be motivated to gain and keep weight gains, when people are in deprivation or starvation conditions. I wrote about Dr. Hyman's blog, Ultra Metabolism, and Dr. Hyman's review of research equating dieting with starvation.
NeelimaP has a wonderful website about eating healthy, Healthy B.P.M. She has a recent blog, Avoiding the word "DIET". She wrote, "When you limit yourself, you are inviting unhappiness".
In the American Chronicle Elwin Sherman had an interesting title, "LIVE UNTIL YOU DIET-- How to Lose Weight By Downsizing the D-Word". His first rule for weight loss is never to say the D-word. He wrote "The D-Word is a prescription for failure".
If you want to lose and maintain weight loss, don't even think the D-Word.
Remember, You Live within the Body and Environment Created by Your Choices!
Dr. Hal
Life and Mental Fitness Coach
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