Weight Loss - Lifestyle Change vs Instant Gratification

For those who have weight to lose, it’s normal to want to find a less painful or easy way to lose weight.  Everywhere  you look there are TV commercials, weight loss pills, fad diets and with the combination of these and the increase of our society’s high priority on personal fitness, it’s only a matter of time before we purchase these goods or services. 

The word diet implies a short term binge of eating right can correct our weight problems.  People feel that if they do this diet for a month or so, they will lose the weight and then carry on with their life.  Unfortunately, it doesn’t work that way.  When looking to lose weight and keep it off, not only do you need to change the foods you consume, but you need to change your mentality.

There’s no diet or exercise machine that is going to instantly transform you without you putting in the effort.  This is the notion of instant gratification.  Just because you own the latest and fanciest piece of equipment you just ordered off some infomercial and decide to use it for 5 minutes a day, 3 days a week, doesn’t mean you’re going to see dramatic changes to your body.  This doesn’t mean that this piece of equipment is not effective either, it simply means that regardless of which machine, or which diet you undertake, you are going to need to put in some effort.  Something we need to come to grips with before we even begin is that discipline and hard work are essential to any weight loss program.

When the time comes to choose the diet you wish, choose the one that you can maintain for an extended period of time.  Don’t be unrealistic, like skipping certain foods or living on soup, because your decision to lose weight is not simply for the fact of getting through a few weeks of terrible foods, but it’s a choice of changing your habits pertaining to food consumption.  Diets that pay attention to providing the body with the nutrients it needs while reducing the ones that lead to weight gain, make the most sense.   When it comes to losing weight permanently, it’s best you choose a lifestyle of healthy eating and regular exercise than a trendy diet you can never hope to maintain.