Why Do Diets Fail?

By

Laura Dion-Jones

“Winners never quit and quitters never win.”

Anonymous

Recent expert statistics claim that diets aren’t working.

I say: Baloney!

Here’s why:

The “experts” need to redefine “healthy eating” because what’s healthy for some isn’t healthy for others – especially for those who are highly carb sensitive like me - and if you struggle to lose weight, maybe like you, too.

In listening to the medical media spout their mostly outdated diet dogma, the majority of them tout the same old - same old, which never worked for me and obviously isn’t working for you or any of the overweight people across our nation, either.

The latest buzz is that the Mediterranean Diet is the best diet above all others. I will tell you this: it didn’t work well enough for me – regardless of the health benefits. I’m way too hyperinsulinemic – I overproduce insulin - and those legumes and certain fruit do me in, retarding my weight loss every single step of the way. I have to eat low-glycemic regardless of the complexity of the carb . . .

The first thing you should do is no longer think of your new eating plan as a “diet,” but as the way you have to live from now on. It’s easier than you think.

To change your lifestyle, you have to be in it for the long haul to win it.

And second, you have to begin to change your mind.

Please stop blaming race, socio-economic issues and the economy for the way you eat. You are the only one putting food into your mouth. No one else is doing it to you . . .

By making better food choices and adding a few simple changes, like, picking a healthy, effective eating plan – or as we used to call it back in the day – a “diet,” and by exercising portion control, and adding an hour of serious daily cardio into the mix, you’ll be much healthier for it.

But you really gotta wanna lose weight, and no one can wanna for you – but you . . . and it has to be something personal. Something that’s truly meaningful to you, like, you’re sick of hauling yourself around. And, believe me, I speak from past experience.

You must be fully committed from the beginning. You have to make up your mind to “Commit To Get Fit” and develop a positive mindset from the giddy-yup.

Learn to meditate: If you think you can do this alone, think again. Daily positive self-talk works wonders, but there’s nothing like daily meditation for reinforcing your resolve. Works wonders for me.

Set daily and weekly weight and fitness goals. But be sure to weigh every day and keep a record of it in your fitness journal. You do have one, don’t you? How else will you know where you’re going if you don’t keep a daily health and fitness journal? It’s your roadmap to success. Use all of your daily numbers to motivate yourself.

Once you define your diet and daily cardio, you’ll begin to lose weight, you’ll feel satisfied and energized, no longer hungry, sloppy and sluggish. If you do, you’re not on the right diet for you.

When you fall off the diet, health and fitness wagon, forgive yourself, pick yourself up, dust yourself off and begin again – the very NEXT meal. Stop beating yourself up and obsessing over it.

Need a jumpstart?

Come join us for Commit To Get Fit With Laura Dion-Jones, an Internet motivational weight loss support group beginning Tuesday, March 26^th at 7 PM, and then almost every Tuesday evening for 12 weeks until June 18^th.

Two Exceptions: Our 2^nd meeting will be on Thursday, April 4^th at 7 PM. And our 7^th meeting will be on Thursday, May 9^th at 7 PM CST.

Please go to my website www.commit-fit.com for more details and call-in info - available soon.

Beginning Monday, April 1^st at 7 PM CST and for the next 13 weeks, I will have a new, half-hour cable TV show, Commit To Get Fit With Laura Dion-Jones that will coincide with my Internet weight loss support group by the same name.

There will not be a TV show on Memorial Day.

However, there WILL be a C2GF class on the day after Memorial Day, so be sure to watch what you eat that holiday weekend!

Remember: There are no short cuts. None.

If you quit now, you’ll never win.

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* As with any new diet and fitness plan, be sure to check with your physician before you begin.