How often have you seen some spam advert pop up that tells you can lose 10 pounds with one crazy tip? There’s a list as long as your arm of ‘wellness-boosting’ ‘super-efficient’ gimmick diets but they never give you the results you need.
Leading research will tell you that your wellbeing is much better improved without all the hype of fad diets, and there’s no need to be as restrictive as you think. By knowing how and why you gain weight, and why your attempts to lose it are unsuccessful, you increase your likelihood of success significantly. Your relationship with food isn’t just physical, but sometimes you overindulge for emotional or mental reasons. Whether it’s because of money issues, your job, your relationship, or just the stress of life, you can seek out food for comfort which leads to weight gain, as well as not dealing with the real problem
According to the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research, founded by psychologist Judith Beck, weight loss can occur when you change your perspective about food.
Beck’s book, The Beck Diet Plan, focuses on reprogramming your brain so that you can think about food the same way thin people do. With the Beck diet, you can still indulge in your favourite foods, but your mindset is changed to stay away from emotional eating, so you stop overeating.
Another book that talks about weight control is The Instinct Diet: Use Your Five Food Instincts To Lose Weight and Keep It Off, written by Betty Sargent and Susan Roberts. They take the approach that your body is programmed to keep you alive and that means you will eat instinctively. Your body seeks foods based on what foods are present, your familiarity with certain foods, and even the needed calories. Because you don’t need to battle against your environment like cavemen did, your body’s instincts can overcorrect the situation, which means you could end up being overweight. The instinct diet reprogrammes you to make healthier food choices, including 3 meals a day, a high-fibre diet and plenty of non calorie beverages such as water.
These books are not fad diets but even if the diet plan itself doesn’t work for you, the books help you to understand the weight-gain triggers psychologically, instinctively, and emotionally and how they relate to your eating habits. First you need knowledge, and then you can have control.
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