FAD DIET FAIRY TALE - DON'T BE A SUCKER

POST New Years Eve, people get desperate to lose the weight, its so often a new years resolution that we've all made at least twice in our life.  Fair enough lets make some changes to be healthier and fitter.  BUT if you ever get the desire to try a milkshake instead of a meal, a prepackaged food, or tablets or a drink, a detox or some other crapola to slim down or whatever they promise.  I implore you not to do this, DON’T spend money on this.  This is ‘marketing’ at its most brilliant.

Did you know that diet product companies spend about 10 times more money on marketing and advertising than they do on the actual 'slimming' product!!!  They don't even care what goes in the product, they only care about the best way to sell it. (ie con the public)

Scientifically, there is no evidence to support any fad diet to date.  I’m talking since the early 1900’s – there is NO SCIENCE BASED EVIDENCE that even one of these have worked long term (i.e. kept the weight off, or kept the weight off for six months- even Atkins, especially Atkins, don't get me started on that fad diet disaster).  And trust me, five people paid to tell you that it worked is NOT evidence, its marketing, its paid actors, and its photoshopping. You hear that so and so knows someone who did it and it worked. really... I want to see them six months later please.

The bathroom scale may show some weight loss. Promises of losses of 5kg are water and lean muscle, everything you DON’T want to lose.  It’s like dropping the oil and fuel from your car; sure your car will weigh less, but it’s not going to perform is it, and sooner rather than later its going to need fuel and oil to sustain it.

People on diets are grumpy mothers truckers! because fad diets do not feed the brain or fuel the body, they just make you think of food constantly and your brain is hungry therefore, you get moody, impatient, short tempered, and quite frankly, a bit of a bitch.

On a fad diet, the scale weight you lose will be regained when you return to normal habits.  It’s very highly probable you will gain more weight than you initially lost, as your body has converted to fat storing mode until it returns to normal.  The icing on the cake is now you are financially poorer for it.

PLEASE PLEASE don’t fall for this bullshit.  These fad diet people don’t care about you, your health, your life.  They just want your money, they have spent millions on marketing, they want profits.

Save your money, save your sanity, save your heart, your brain, your kidneys, your gastrointestinal tract.

If you want to lose some weight, write down your goal, (6 months lose 10-12kg) break that goal down into smaller goals (lose 3 kilos first month, 2 kilos second month… and so on) Now write down your plans and preparations to make the clever changes to meet these goals.  Such as changes to eating, changes to physical activity, swap the drive to a walk, swap the chips to something healthy, changes to mindset (positive positive positive).

It’s a slow race sure, but you know what? So what !  It took me six months to reach my very first goal, then another 6 months to reach the next one.  I will have been at this for two years in April 2012, which is my latest goal to achieve, and Im planning for my next goal as I type this!

You must have a goal - break it down to smaller timeframes - plan and prepare.  Easy ! Free ! Sustainable ! Yours !

Slow and steady wins the race. Stick to the game plan and you will live longer and be more vital, be a clear thinking, stress coping machine, and remember to give time, time.

Day by day, you will be better than yesterday.

If you are unsure about food content and serving sizes please check out http://www.nhmrc.gov.au/_files_nhmrc/publications/attachments/n31.pdf

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