South Beach Diet, Hollywood Diet, Atkin’s Diet, Grapefruit Diet and even the Lemonade Diet; there is a diet for every conceivable type of weight concern. The problem with diets is that they are not sustainable. You cannot drink grapefruit, or lemonade for the rest of your life – these are quick fixes, not solutions. You must make lifestyle changes.
Our bodies, like our minds, become conditioned over time to the routine we have established, and breaking the conditioning is difficult. Like any habit, once you become aware of it, you can begin to re-condition yourself to break the routine. For example, some of us have an emotional relationship with food, we eat when we are happy, sad, angry, or depressed.
Our emotional conditioning to foods keeps us eating for reasons other than our nutritional or physiologic health. Some of us eat very little, yet still gain weight, because our metabolism is sluggish. There are many reasons we may gain weight, or more importantly, cannot lose the weight. But trying and failing every type of diet out there, or trying to find which one works for you, just reinforces the old adage, “One size does not fit all.” Therefore, it is important to establish why you gain weight, if you are to successfully lose the weight.
So, how do you figure out why you gain weight, or what type of program, eating plan, or regime fits you? For example, If you are diabetic, pre-diabetic, or even hypoglycemic, you may have issues with food that are harder to control than just eating too much, therefore, fad, or the quick weight loss diets are not the way to go.
Other health problems, such as high stress, high or low hormones, or a sluggish thyroid can also contribute to weight gain, or trouble in shedding those pounds. Try out this weight factor test to see what category may be a factor in your weight gain. For some weight factors, you may find that natural dietary supplements will help you break the conditioning you have so carefully established.