Diet Is Not A Bad Word

While compiling the information for this article I had a friend tell me she did not care for the word "diet", she felt that it was something that she would only keep up for a short amount of time, then she would resume eating poorly. The truth is that whether she put good food or bad food into her body that is her diet. Diet means a person or animals food and drink intake. It doesn’t have to be good, bad, a lot, or a little, food and eating patterns make up ones diet, therefore you can have a diet of nothing but ice cream, or a diet of nothing but salad, a low calorie diet, a low carb diet, or a high protein diet and so on.

But as we have already discussed, this is not a diet but rather a way of life. I have been working with people for the last 20 years and the thing that I have discovered that we are not only creatures of habit, but we are very affected by our surroundings. It is easy to fall into a routine, or go with the flow, but it is difficult to go out on your own, against the grain, or change the way you are currently living. Although it may be difficult it is not impossible and we will take the process in stages so that it becomes second nature as you fall into a healthy pattern rather than an unhealthy one.

It is important that you change the way think of healthy living also, for example weighing yourself every day will not help you in your pursuit of weight loss. You should limit your times stepping on the scale to once a week. Also, using a measuring tape is an excellent way to monitor your progress. The scale is poor measurement for several reasons; our bodies can fluctuate in weight by as much as 5% per day naturally from water retention. In a person who weighs 150 lbs that is 7.5 lbs! Also muscle weighs approximately 4 times as much as fat, so if you are adding muscle mass while losing fat, you may actually weigh more when you get on the scale. A measuring tape will come in handy as the fat accumulation around your hips, belly and so on decreases, also you will notice your clothes getting looser, and you will soon be buying clothes in smaller sizes.