Dieting
Definition: The "dieting" we are referring to here is any type of diet that:
- restricts calories
- uses preplanned meal replacement or liquid diets
- includes fasting
- includes skipping meals, or
- restricts certain food groups
- 75% of people who have an eating disorder say it was an innocent diet that got them started.
- 95% of people who lose weight by dieting gain it back.
- Yo-Yo dieting (dieting, loosing weight, gaining it back ? then trying to diet again and ending up in the same cycle) can actually lead to obesity
- Yo-Yo dieting has more health risks than being overweight
- Dieting lowers your metabolism so you end up storing fat more easily from fewer calories.
The next time you feel dissatisfied with your body type and go to start yet another diet, try this:
- Ask yourself, what is really happening to me right now?
- What am I feeling?
- Why?
- When am I feeling this?
- Talk to someone you trust about this
- Brainstorm a couple of different solutions to what you are experiencing
- Try one of these solutions
- If that doesn't work, try another
If nothing changes, everything stays the same.
Don't buy into a thin obsessed society driven by $32 Billion Dollar diet industry
- Less than 5% of the population is born to be naturally model thin
- Look at your relatives - what body type do they have? Body type is determined by genes more than anything else - be comfortable in your jeans!
- Does being thin make you any better a friend or family member?
EAT REGULARLY FOR ENERGY - EXERCISE IS FOR FUN!
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