Why do 99 percent of all diets fail?

Most of us who have been on a diet, and let’s face it, I mean a lot of people, we find dieting a real challenge. There are endless studies and statistics that tell us that between 95% and 99% of all diets fail in the long term, from someone who dieted for 15 years in a row without losing weight, I can believe it, it was not until I gave up diet and completely changed my mindset and attitude towards weight loss that I finally changed the pounds once and for all.

I was intrigued to find out why we keep making the same mistakes over and over again, we get fatter and hungrier, and the diet industry gets richer. This, very briefly, is what I discovered.

Apologies

There are a number of perceived obstacles in the way of pursuing your goal of being slim, fit, and healthy. As you already know, there are certain things you really need to do if you want to lose weight: You need to eat adequate amounts of healthy foods and be moderately active. The only problem is that most of us have a hard time getting ourselves to do this ourselves, we tend to rationalize why it is difficult for us to do something, we make excuses.

We blame our parents, our upbringing, the fact that being overweight is a family trait, our slow metabolism. We blame our children, our spouses, our jobs for not having enough time. These can be factors that actually make it difficult for us to lose weight. But it is important to note that these are simply reasons why we have not been successful in the past, they are not insurmountable obstacles that should prevent us from reaching our goals. By identifying potential roadblocks to successful weight loss and dealing with them in advance, any roadblocks can be effectively removed.

Lack of organization

Achieving weight loss goals becomes much more difficult when you don’t have the right foods or don’t have time to get some exercise. If you have cookies and chips lying around in your cupboards and you don’t have fruit to snack on, you know what the likely outcome will be. The temptation to grab a handful of cookies to stave off hunger is often too great to resist. This is one of the main reasons people don’t stick to their weight loss plans and it can easily be avoided with proper planning. Make your life easier by spending some time planning your weekly routine, including what you want to eat and when, what you need to buy at the grocery store, and how long you need to exercise regularly. And do yourself a favor, clean up all the junk food so there are no temptations.

Impatience

Going for the quick fix is ​​a trend that most unsuccessful dieters have. Once we’ve decided that we want to lose weight, we want that weight to drop as quickly as possible, although, as smart people, we know that it just isn’t going to happen. Following crazy fad diets that promise a 12-pound weight loss per week is just counterproductive, but hey, you already knew that, didn’t you?

Choosing the wrong diet

Some diets are impossible to follow. If you decide to follow a diet that only allows you to eat grapefruit, for example, or cabbage soup, failure is inevitable. Your body is physically programmed to protect its fat stores, when those fat stores are threatened by hunger, it does its best to retain them, it will give up muscle for energy before it loses fat. These starvation diets simply have the effect of making you fat and miserable.

Not setting adequate goals

There is quite an art and science to goal setting, many studies have been done to show the magic of goal setting and there are hundreds of goal setting programs on the market. The truth is that by stating exactly what you want to achieve in writing and then defining the steps you’re going to take to achieve it, your likelihood of success increases phenomenally. However, in general, most people tend to ignore this important aspect of achieving their goal when embarking on a weight loss program, making failure almost inevitable.

Your mind

The reasons I have listed above are the main reasons why people cannot lose weight permanently and why the diet industry is so optimistic. Americans spend about $ 35 billion a year on diet products, and the obesity problem is getting worse. But there is one factor above all others that makes it so difficult for us to lose weight and that is our subconscious conditioning.

All your habits, experiences, beliefs, attitudes, thoughts, feelings and behaviors make up the way you think, you eat the way you do because of your thoughts, feelings and beliefs, so going on a diet and ignoring this aspect of weight loss generally it is doomed to failure. to failure from the start.

Changing the way you think is essential before you can achieve long-lasting and comfortable weight loss.