When it comes to losing weight, what works for you may be the plan that fails for someone else. And just the opposite can happen too.
Your twin sister goes on the Atkins diet and loses 30 pounds, you go on the Atkins diet and lose 5, which took all of 6 months. Or a co-worker swears by acai berry, but all it did for you was give you gas and constipation.
What’s wrong? Possibly nothing because contrary to popular belief not every weight loss method works for everybody, pun intended. Your body has its own unique needs, even if you are an identical twin.
Unless the diet you are following comes with a customized meal plan specifically suited to your personal nutritional needs and food preferences, then you are throwing your money away trying to use it.
Unfortunately, people see the ads on television or watch a Youtube video about how a celebrity lost weight with a certain product and that’s all they need to hear.
Most people who try Alli or Hydroxycut never read the inserts, and only hear eat anything you want and you can have the sexy body I got.
When you read that, how did it make you feel about the weight loss plan you’re on? If you’ve been a part of the “100 Ways To Lose Weight And Waiting For The Next Fast Fat Loss Method To Try” crowd, please stop.
Take a week, just 7 days and watch what you eat each day. Don’t think about counting calories, how many carbs you ate and definitely take only a pill if your physician has prescribed it.
Simply eat what you have a taste for, include gum and snack bars. Write it down and move on. Here’s what you are going to realize, no matter what latest, greatest, fastest, free shipping diet program you try – it all comes back to what you normally eat.
There is nothing scientific about yo-yo dieting. There is no magic one-size-fits-all diet invented that worked for every person who bought it or tried it, but the commercials don’t tell you that.
Afterall, no one would buy a program/plan/product if you knew your chances of actually succeeding long term with it was 1 in 1500. Highly unlikely they would stay in business for long.
Here’s something fun to do the next time you’re tempted to buy another weight loss plan or system, and those who are in my coaching group had fun with this.
Ask the sales rep or customer service person – ‘How many people have not lost weight using this and why did they fail?’ Listen to the answer you get, if you get a response to the question at all.
It’s your money and your body, but keeping the weight you lose off long term must come with relearning how to eat. Small changes like dumping white sugar for raw sugar is a start. Eating when you’re eating, not doing anything else is a small change.
Losing weight isn’t hard, people do it every day. The hard part is keeping it off and doing it in such a way that there are no long term negative health consequences.
Until next time – Be Well.
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