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You Don’t Need Another Diet, You Need Therapy
How many times have you caught yourself saying, “I’m going to try that diet?”
How many times have you compared yourself to your friend after they told you how much weight they lost and how much energy they gained?
Even if you have the best of intentions, you’ve already tried this “dieting thing” before.
Maybe it was the keto diet or intermittent fasting. Before that, it might have been Paleo. Maybe it was Atkins, Zone, or Optavia.
The name of the diet changes, but the results don’t.
They’re consistent and predictable:
Step 1: start a new diet.
Step 2: it’s going great! Look at all the weight you’re dropping.
Step 3: you have 1 unplanned, “bad” meal.
Step 4: you think to yourself “what’s the point? I blew this meal, might as well blow the entire day.”
Step 5: you blow the entire day, and now you think, “I’ll just eat what I normally do the entire week, and re-start the diet on Monday.”
Step 6: you never re-start the diet.
Step 7: It’s December, and you think you could lose a few pounds, so you set a new year’s resolution to lose weight. New years is a couple of weeks away. There’s no point…
