While dieting can help you lose weight quickly, few people can maintain that result. Even worse, when you return to your original eating habits, the weight rebounds, and you might end up even heavier and with a higher saturation point than before you started dieting! Therefore, before you begin your diet plan, take a look at these five reasons why dieting often fails!
Reason 1: For most people, dieting is very difficult to stick to.
Dieting, regardless of the specific diet plan, means changing your eating habits over a long period. However, bad habits are difficult to change because they are already ingrained in our lives. Furthermore, many bad habits are related to specific dietary cultures, such as the high-fat diets of Westerners, the Japanese love of salted fish, and the Chinese and Koreans' fondness for kimchi – habits you can't easily change. Additionally, the success of changing eating habits depends heavily on willpower. People's willpower is usually very strong at the beginning, but over time, facing the pressure of change, it gradually weakens. Moreover, you have to resist temptations such as invitations from friends and parties every day. This is why sticking to a diet plan for one or two months is easy, but maintaining the results is difficult.
Reason 2: Dieting will make you feel hungry and deprived.
Studies show that regardless of your weight, dieting will make you feel extremely hungry and create a stronger craving for things you shouldn't eat, such as sugar and fat. If you successfully suppress your cravings, you'll feel deprived, thinking, "Everyone else is eating, but I can't. Why can't I eat?" This feeling accumulates to a certain point, and you start overeating again.
Reason 3: Day after day of dieting can make you feel bored or even break down.
Dieting works because you consistently follow it. However, most people get tired of the same bland, monotonous diet day after day. So, they try to find a diet that won't become boring, but in reality, this is impossible. Dieters then switch between different diets, only to face repeated failures and even become more obese than before they started dieting.
Reason 4: Dieting ignores the emotional factors of overeating.
Hunger isn't the only reason for eating; many people use food to relieve stress. Emotional eating is a major cause of weight gain for many, whether due to excessive joy or sadness. People tend to eat to alleviate these emotions. Clearly, dieting has no effect on this type of emotional eating. Moreover, persisting in dieting when feeling down is likely to exacerbate depression.
Reason Five: Dieters overlook the fact that weight loss is a lifelong endeavor that requires changing lifestyle habits.
Those who truly succeed in losing weight are those who persistently change their eating and exercise habits. However, most dieters often tell themselves, after achieving some results, "I should reward myself; maybe a piece of cream cake won't make me gain weight." And so, without realizing it, their old eating habits return, and their weight loss journey ends in failure.
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