There are diets for everything–the bikini-by-summer diet, the lose-all-the weight-you-want-in-thirty-days diet, the just-get-me-into-my-wedding-dress diet, and myriad other weight loss diets discovered daily.
At best, the majority of weight-loss diets are temporary. And why? Because dieters have been programmed to expect temporary results. Most sensational diets over-promise and under-deliver.
Once all the weight magically falls off, if that ever happens, you can go back to your regular life.
As long as the right words are in the advertisement–it’s not your fault, eat normally, or without dieting or exercise–the sales rack up.
It seems that diets, health supplements, weight loss systems and the like have one thing in common. One size definitely does not fit all.
And as far as eating normally, well where does that fit into the lives of food addicts, emotional eaters and the obese population in general? The extreme eating habits of food abusers are a big part of the problem.
Extremes have caused us to view everything in the blackest of blacks and the whitest of whites. There is no flexibility. It’s all or none. No room for moderation and no understanding of it.
Moderation would require self-discipline and the “I want it all! I want it now!” philosophy promotes the illusion of “no consequence” behavior.
The only problem with that is that food doesn’t work that way. And neither does anything long-term. Sooner or later the piper must be paid.
Why does a health supplement or a healthy eating program have to be either a miracle or a scam? If it doesn’t work immediately, it’s no good. If it does, it’s a miracle and everybody should try it.
Again, one size does not fit all. A diet is an over-used name for an eating plan. Plan is the operative word.
Your uniqueness and your willingness to accept yourself as a whole and worthy person will go farther to rid you of the need to stuff down your feelings with food than any miracle pill on the market now or in the future.
And the really good news is that knowing who you are will still be working after every quick fix and miracle diet has failed.
It is up to you to uncover within yourself what it will take in terms of commitment and perseverance to achieve your weight loss goals.
There is no miracle diet for food addicts. You are the miracle.
It’s Never Too Late to Be Great! ®