Diet vs Dieting. Is there a difference?
As simple as it is to explain, it seems to be one of the hardest concepts to "get" when starting down a path to fat loss. My own journey began more than 13 years ago and it wasn't until the past few years that I truly "got it". What I am talking about here is the difference between diet and dieting.
A Diet is what you eat on a regular basis.
What is "This"?
This is successfully changing our diet to ensure healthy fat loss that is so easy to maintain we barely have to think about it!
This is something we can all do.
This takes time and will typically not produce nor cause immediate results.
The first step of this is to recognize that we are NOT dieting!!!
It is truly that simple. The first step is to STOP DIETING!
The next steps come in simply understanding our own diets; through such understanding we will discover how to make the individual changes to them we need without the dieting fads we don't.
~TigressSky~
As simple as it is to explain, it seems to be one of the hardest concepts to "get" when starting down a path to fat loss. My own journey began more than 13 years ago and it wasn't until the past few years that I truly "got it". What I am talking about here is the difference between diet and dieting.
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| Is this something you eat regularly? Then this is part of your diet. |
Dieting is making a sudden and sometimes drastic change to what you eat regularly in order to aid in fat loss.
Okay simple right?
Actually, it isn't that simple. Especially if you want to ensure that your fat loss efforts will be something permanent and easy to maintain.
Permanent and Easy to Maintain You Say?
Permanent and Easy to Maintain You Say?
We all pretty much understand the difference between Diet and Dieting what we do not seem to understand is that changing your diet does not mean nor equate to dieting.
Wait, what? Do the definitions not show that in order to affect my fat loss I need to change my diet which requires dieting?
Technically, it looks like that is in fact the case. Everything we read and are exposed to also makes these same pleas to us of using this pre-defined nomenclature in order to achieve any success. Dieting companies, authors, and reality television shows all push this same agenda of dieting upon us, each focusing on their particular fool-proof plan!
Plans such as: "Eat these pre-packaged meals," and/or, "eliminate these types of foods" and "take these supplements that come in boxes of rhetoric for you!" As well as the more simpler plans of: "eat this many calories," and/or, "eat this many meals a day within this caloric range." Plans that are really not maintainable in the long run, so much so that I would beg to call them Dieting Fads not plans.
Almost all of these dieting fads come with a type of work out program focused on getting you into the "best shape of your life!"
(There is a reason the dieting industry is one of the most profitable and it isn't because of their success rates.)
I guarantee you that if you spend the time, effort, and dollars needed on any of these dieting programs you will lose weight and you will see results. I also guarantee you that as soon as you stop following them you will gain some back, most likely all of it will come back; with the very typical added bonus of a few extra pounds joining you anew!
Wait, what? Do the definitions not show that in order to affect my fat loss I need to change my diet which requires dieting?
Technically, it looks like that is in fact the case. Everything we read and are exposed to also makes these same pleas to us of using this pre-defined nomenclature in order to achieve any success. Dieting companies, authors, and reality television shows all push this same agenda of dieting upon us, each focusing on their particular fool-proof plan!
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| You can burn calories just reading all the rhetoric!!! |
Almost all of these dieting fads come with a type of work out program focused on getting you into the "best shape of your life!"
(There is a reason the dieting industry is one of the most profitable and it isn't because of their success rates.)
I guarantee you that if you spend the time, effort, and dollars needed on any of these dieting programs you will lose weight and you will see results. I also guarantee you that as soon as you stop following them you will gain some back, most likely all of it will come back; with the very typical added bonus of a few extra pounds joining you anew!
Truth is, if we want "this" to work then we have to change our diet altogether
and that change is not helped but instead hindered by dieting.
What is "This"?
This is successfully changing our diet to ensure healthy fat loss that is so easy to maintain we barely have to think about it!
This is something we can all do.
This takes time and will typically not produce nor cause immediate results.
The first step of this is to recognize that we are NOT dieting!!!
It is truly that simple. The first step is to STOP DIETING!
The next steps come in simply understanding our own diets; through such understanding we will discover how to make the individual changes to them we need without the dieting fads we don't.
~TigressSky~
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