In this article I learned about the differences between dieting and choosing to live a healthy lifestyle. Most people fail at dieting because they do not see the difference between a dieting lifestyle and a Healthy lifestyle. With a healthy lifestyle you change how you live you continue making changes to improve your physical wellness not just how you eat. When you diet once you have reached your goal your done. Dieting also leaves you saying “What’s next? “ With a Healthy Lifestyle there is no end so you don’t say what is next. You choose to live as healthy as you can for the rest of your life.
What is the difference between dieting and living healthy? Lets start with the definitions. A diet is all about numbers, your weight, the scale, the measuring tape, how many calories you eat and burn. A lifestyle change is all about lining up eating and exercising with your goals and desires. Success is determined from how these changes make you feel.
With dieting the key to happiness and solving problems is reaching a certain weight. That is why messing up the numbers on a day can be upsetting it means you messed up everything that really matters. In lifestyle change, you know that the reason you are overweight has more to do with something mental and not just about the food. That addressing the problems directly is the best way to solve problems. This means you focus on the whole picture not just the numbers on the scale. Because, even the bad numbers give clues to where the problems may lie.
Dieting involves temporarily changes in your eating. You follow the rules of what diet your on, measure, cut, weight. Stop eating some foods substitute others. Maybe throw in some exercise to burn off some more exercise. When dieting you think that it is the diet causing you to loose the weight not you, the one doing the diet. However after you get to your goal, you get comfortable and all if not more of the weight returns.
Changing to a healthy lifestyle involves permanent change in the way you view food, eating and physical activity. You figure out that the primary problem isn’t how much or what you eat. It is how and why you eat. You figure out that the eating impulsively, mindless eating and using food to control your emotions. That using food to distract you from stress, anger, boredom, depression is the real problem and what you really need to change. You learn to take care of yourself emotionally, physically and spiritually., You learn to stop using eating to solve problems that it really can’t, this is a life long commitment and it is constantly changing due life being in a constant state of change.
Choosing this lifestyle doesn’t mean that surface things like how you look don’t matter. You have to control how much and what you eat it is vital, and caring about how you look is a great motivator. What you need to see is the big picture. The key to getting and keeping weight off is feeling happy and satisfied with your life and controlling what you can control and forgetting about everything else.
What can’t you control: Genes, age, Medical status, previous weight history will affect your weight and appearance. These factors will affect how much weight you can loose and how quickly you can lose it and how you feel and look when you have lost what you are able. When you focus on the numbers you are staking the happiness of your life on the scale. That just makes you worried all the time about how well you are doing and If you are worried or stressed your going to eat once you starting eating, you start gaining weight due to the emotional eating.
Source: Stop Dieting Start Living; http://www.sparkpeople.com/resource/motivation_articles.asp?id=620
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