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Do diets work? Every year, more and more people decide to go on a diet to try and get rid of unwanted pounds. They put their faith in some new formula which promises to deliver their dream – permanent weight loss. Be it the Atkins diet or the South Beach Diet, their expectations are always high. These diets can deliver short-term weight loss, but the majority of dieters will be disappointed because permanent weight loss will not happen.
The essential ingredient that is missing is the means to effect change, permanent change. What is needed are new habits, slim habits if you like, that can be repeated and practiced to effect that change, not just another restrictive diet.
Most diets fail to deliver permanent weight loss because they don’t address the need for behavior change. Traci Mann, a psychologist at the University of California (UCLA) who analyzed 31 long-term studies that followed people on a range of diets for between two and five years found that : ‘Diets do not lead to sustained weight loss or health benefits for the majority of people.’
So what can you expect if you go on a diet? Short-term weight loss is the short answer. You may be able to lose up to 10% of your body weight. You might think that’s a pretty good result until you realise that within a very short space of time you will have put the weight back on again – with interest! This is what happens in the majority of cases – well over 90% in fact.
There have been some enormous advances made in the fields of neuroscience and psychology. There is now a far better understanding about how our body and brain work, how they interact and what we can do to make change and take control of our lives. One new weight loss system, the Slim Habit, puts this new knowledge into plain, easy to understand language and translates it into practical applications – ‘slim habits’. This is interesting because learning new habits and discarding old behaviors is the way to achieve permanent weight loss.
Making change is not difficult, but it helps to have a program that supplies a knowledge base and also a means of offering long-term support. We need help and a formal structure if we are to identify our old behaviors and learn new habits. We have to have a means of taking control of our lives to make long-term change. It needs to be a program of learning and where we can discover our true strength and resolve.
A new, slim and healthy life awaits those who are prepared to come to terms with their behaviors and to make real and lasting change. Learning new habits, new slim habits is the way forward.
The big weight could soon be over for those who really want to make change.
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