Why Diet’s Don’t Work

Why do our bodies resist diets? By defining the word “diet”, it is noun meaning “food and drink regularly provided or consumed,” so why dieters fail at something as easy as that?. The problem is that we have given the word “diet” with a negative meaning which is restriction, can’t eat, bland food, and no taste. The following are the reasons why diet’s fail.

• Post-Deprivation Elation. As soon as the diet is over, the first thing post-dieters may do is gorge on all the foods (good and bad) the diet made off limits. They believe the diet has protected them against weight gain and that they can eat anything.
• Diet-Failure Despair. If you have been on a diet and haven’t lost as much weight as you’d wanted to, you’ll be demoralized and won’t even have the desire to try again.
• The Energy Zap. Diets are very exhausting. They take some time, effort, and often don’t provide enough calories to sustained energy.
• The Craving Crazies. In addition to slowed metabolism, deprivation creates an exaggerated cravings, and a piece of chocolate seems a million times more desirable than it really is. When people are on a diet, they tend to focus on deprivation, and thinking more about the foods they can’t eat, then they become obsessed and respond with diet-induced overeating. And they never focused on what really matters which is changing their behavior and how they think about food in relation to themselves.