Why is My Diet/Coaching Program Not Working?

The fact is, there is a very high failure rate among all of the various diet plans and coaching programs.

• This includes the fad diets such:

  • Keto,

  • Atkins,

  • Paleo,

  • Carnivore,

  • Mediterranean,

  • supplements for weight loss,

  • medical programs with and without pharmaceutical use,

  • various other programs.

Unfortunately, most people who want to lose weight have an urgency to get their weight off quickly.

• They have spent many years getting to their current condition,

• They don’t want to wait to get down to their ideal weight.

• The weight loss programs know this and take advantage of the overweight person’s urgency and lack of knowledge about weight loss.

• The programs promise extraordinary weight loss knowing that it is unachievable.

• When you fail to achieve the promised weight loss,

  • They use the disclaimer that everyone is not the same.

  • Your body must be more resistant to weight loss, so you will have to work harder at losing your weight.

A well known and obvious fact is that everyone has different tastes in food.

• The food that these programs suggest you eat rarely corresponds to the foods that you like to eat.

• Making the radical changes to your diet that they require makes it extremely difficult for you to maintain their diet.

  • You are miserable the entire time,

  • eventually, you revert to your old eating habits.

  • This may be before or even after you reach your weight goal.

  • Your eating style is what caused you to be fat in the first place.

    • Now that you have returned to it, you will of course get fat again.

A most unfortunate aspect of these programs is that they do not focus on nutrition.

• Most of them claim that their diets are healthy.

• The truth is,

  • since most people are in a hurry to lose weight,

    • the programs’ diets are aimed at causing you to lose weight quickly,

    • not make you nutritionally healthy.

    • In doing so, they must bypass much of the needed nutritional aspects of their diet in order to reduce your caloric input sufficiently to cause the expected weight loss.

  • Since health is the most important aspect of your life, you should be focusing on nutritional health.

  • Weight loss will come as a natural consequence of being healthy.

Most programs are going to suggest that you use some type of exercise to help you lose weight.

• Exercise is absolutely imperative in achieving optimum health,

• It has no place in a weight loss program.

  • This is because you can easily outeat a pretty intense exercise program.

  • Using exercise as part of your weight loss program is very unproductive

    • is very frustrating

    • can be counterproductive.

• You should exercise to improve your physiological fitness,

  • don’t do this until you have improved your nutritional state.

  • To do so may actually make your physiological fitness worse

    • because exercise uses up nutritional sources that you are not replenishing through a proper healthy diet.

The last thing that I will touch on in this BLOG is maintainability.

• Most people think that once they reach their desired weight,

  • they can just return to their previous habits.

  • This is of course a fallacy.

  • It is your previous habits that caused your problem in the first place.

  • Returning to them will cause you to reverse everything that you accomplished and you will be right back where you started,

    • usually you are worse off,

    • gaining more weight than you lost,

    • probably being more nutritionally deficient.

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