Wherever you look these days, from commercials on television to magazines, diet plans and weight loss tips are everywhere. Even online the ads are flashing at you, telling you how you can lose weight if only you do this, or if only you do that. It can be confusing, not to mention depressing. What's with the whole focus on being skinny?
It is true that being in good shape tends to mean being in good health. However, there is nothing wrong with having some shape to your body. Indeed, there are some good reasons for why we should avoid diets...
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1. Generally, diets don't work. When you feel you're on a diet, all too often you'll only start to crave exactly those foods you're not allowed to touch. It's like a universal law. You're aware of what you shouldn't eat, so you start to want it. Sooner or later, you're likely to give in to this urge, and then you'll be disappointed because you didn't stick to your diet.
2. If you do carry on to keep to your diet and lose quite a bit of weight, there will come a point where you feel you've done sufficient dieting. At this point it is easy to start eating those very items of food you tried to avoid while your diet, and because you haven't allowed yourself to eat them for a while, you might start to gain weight again.
3. Extreme diets are unhealthy. We all need a collection of foods to enunciate a wholesome nutritional balance.
4. Don't be tempted to simply not eat. This can lead to eating disorders, and eating disorders can be difficult to break free off. Nothing, and nobody, is worth starving yourself for.
5. We often start a diet for all the wrong reasons. We don't have to look like supermodels. Realise that supermodels have imperfections, too. Those pictures you see in the magazines are ordinarily touched up to make the model look superhumanly perfect.
Also, please realise that we all come in distinct shapes and sizes. If you're not a natural size 0, why try forcing yourself to be one? Some women are simply slim, some are curvy. It's just the way life is, and there's nothing wrong with it.
6. Dieting just to attract another man is not the best thing to do. If that man doesn't like you the way you are, they are not worthy of you. I know that sounds easy, whilst nothing else but there are true feelings involved. That might well be the case. But if man wants you to turn just to suit them, there's something wrong. If they don't like the way you look, it's not likely to last.
Again, nobody is worth starving yourself for.
7. Morning meal bars and weight loss meals are not the be all and end all of wholesome food.
8. Weight loss does not come from dieting alone. It comes from a equilibrium of food and exercise.
9. Quite often you will find that you're nothing else but eating less than you should, instead of eating too much!
10. You do not have to be thin to be a good person. Who you are is not defined by your looks, or whether or not you have a good hair day, or what clothes you happen to be wearing. You are you, and you are wonderful just the way you are.
If you do need or wish to lose some weight, the natural way is all the time the best one. Try to eat often, but make sure the portions are reasonable and made up of a wholesome collection of food. Don't force yourself to empty your plate - if your body tells you you are satisfied it's time to stop.
Try to get some exercise. You don't need to go to the gym for this - even a half an hour walk a day will do wonders for your health and body shape.
If you need to lose a lot of weight for health reasons, it is best to ask your physician for advice. He or she will help you conclude the best route to take. This guidance will be best than that of all the population with books on the shelves, or advertisements on the television. This is because your physician knows you, and your personal circumstances.
Top 10 Reasons Why Not to Go on a Diet
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