What Do Diets Really Do?

ByDavid Donahoo

Weight Watchers is one of a number of companies that help you control your weight through dieting. The idea is to eat only those foods that are low in fat so that if you eat them you will not store the fat. In the past diet meant what you eat. Now it means more about what you do not eat or are restricted in eating.

When people come to see me they tell me how they are restricted or can't have chocolate, butter, cakes and many other food because the diet they are on does not allow them to have it.

In the case of where a person is allergic or intolerant to a specific food type then this makes sense. If you have Fructose malabsorption, meaning that you cannot absorb it in the stomach, then it is a good idea to stop having foods with fructose in them. But if you are not intolerant to chocolate, then why not eat it if you are hungry?

The question this has always raised with me is how does a diet help you to change your behavior to control your eating in a positive way, when the diet is basically focusing on the negative? It focuses on what you cannot or should not have.

The law of attraction has been mentioned in many books and films for a number of years. In basic terms what you think about at the subconscious level you either attract or create. Based on this rule, if you focus on not having chocolate, your mind will therefore attract chocolate to you. So you will think about it all day long until you have some. Then you will feel guilty because you have gone against the diet. Working this way will never help you to fully achieve what you want.

The better way is to focus on what you do want. So do you want to be on a diet to lose weight, or do you really want to have your eating behavior under control so you eat when you are hungry, stop when you are full and therefore will only eat chocolate when you are hungry and say no to it when full? In this case you are focusing on what you want so you can decide to eat what you want, as long as you are not allergic or intolerant to it.

This breaks that habit you have of thinking only about food because you know you can have it when you are hungry. Therefore you can then focus on other things when you are not hungry and enjoy life.

Diets may be useful for a time, but allow yourself to realize what you are actually focusing on, and then focus on what is important for weight control.

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