Weight loss: we don't 'fail' to fight the flab - diets fail us...

Food for thought: no-one 'fails' to fight the flab - diets fail to promote the sustainable lifestyle changes that lead to long-term weight loss.

 Although dedicating every ounce of energy to the detrimental diets and 'detoxes' that fail to fight the flab may be frustrating, our predisposition to re-piling on the pounds after successfully shaping a slender silhouette rarely stems from a lack of self-control.

 In order to emphasise how our 'failure' to effectively eliminate excess weight is simply the result of resorting to unrealistic rules and regimes, we're sharing our top three reasons why it's diets that widen our waistlines, not weakened willpower...

 1. Diets demand drastic change.
As tempting as it may be to overhaul our unhealthy habits overnight, this avoidable action automatically places unnecessary pressure on us to pursue unsustainable change.

 Drastic change damages our dress size by: failing to teach us how to form the healthier eating and exercise habits that stem from creating small, simple and sustainable lifestyle changes i.e.swapping shop brought sweet treats for healthier, homemade alternatives (a sustainable change) as opposed to demanding that we ditch them from our diet completely (a drastic/unsustainable change).

 2. Diets forbid favoured foods.
Aside from increasing the incidence of binge eating by instantly intensifying the 'banned' foods appeal, the forbidding of specific food sources also suggests that food is either good or bad, and can make us fat or thin - an action that drives us to develop a detrimental perception of dieting, and form an unhealthy relationship with food.

 Dieting deprivation damages our dress size by: driving us to demolish an abundance of delicious dishes and desserts when it's no longer physically, or psychologically, possible to tame temptation - this natural (and inevitable) reaction cripples our confidence and leaves us convinced that we're incapable of sustaining self-control.

 3. Diets dictate unrealistic rules.
Although dictative diets may see us drop a dress size in the short-term, their restrictive rules and regimes not only resemble two of the core culprits responsible for reinforcing the risk of rebellion, but they also leave us susceptible to sabotaging our self-efficacy the second that we slip up and/or struggle to sustain such strategic slimming.

 Dietary dictation damages our dress size by: forcing us to resort back to our unhealthy habits as a result of restrictive rules and/or an unrealistic eating regime - this fuels the feeling of 'failure' whilst reinforcing the belief that we're incapable of fighting the flab.

 Final thought: ditching the diets and 'detoxes' that dictate and deprive is essential for the effective and efficient elimination of excess weight. Until we're willing to favour simple and sustainable lifestyle swaps over quick fix fads, we will continue to turn to the detrimental diets that not only damage our dress size (and determination!), but convince us that we're incapable of creating long-term change.

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