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Nicki's Top 10 Reasons You Shouldn't Make "Dieting" a Resolution!

Written on December 29, 2009

 Below are My Top 10 Reasons Why You Shouldn't t Diet This Year! (and every year following).  

10. Name one diet that's worked... permanently. (You can't count the one's where you lost 5 pounds here and 10 pounds there or even 25 pounds. They don't count if the weight came back.)

9. Because diets leave you feeling like a failure, over and over and over again. When's the last time a diet left you feeling great about yourself?

8. Diet's are dangerous. Too little food translates to low energy and low metabolism. Unregulated diet pills can elevate your blood pressure resulting in high blood pressure and possibly a stroke.

7. Diets are misleading. I sort of think about the peddlars in the old days, also known as sellers of Snake Oil. Snake Oil was touted as the "cure of whatever ails ya!" as soon as the peddlar sold out, he was gone. How many diets make promises that actually pan out? What recourse do you have when they don't work?

6. Diets convey poor information - Let's see, for the most part diets don't encourage healthy food choices, they simply talk about cutting calories. And though we do consume too many calories in this country, we simply need to make better food choices and cut down on portions. Some diets say, "Well hey, if you have a snickers, that's 10 points, but it's o.k. just don't go past your points!" Where's the nutritional benefit there? Guess it doesn't matter if you don't exceed your points, right?

5. Diets don't teach moderation- Diets are clearly all or nothing. You can either eat something or nothing. Why do you think we go nuts during the holidays? Because we're not on a diet and diets teach us when we're not dieting, we can eat whatever we want! Huh? Wha?

4. Diet's aren't real life. In the 20 plus years I've been in this business one of the biggest reasons diets fail is that people travel, celebrate birthdays, anniversary's, weddings, etc. If you're on a diet and the food isn't on the menu you either starve or you're forced to go "off" your diet. Once you're "off" your diet well you're pretty much done and then you can eat anything you want, right?

3. Diet's usurp self-esteem- For those of you that have spent most of your life dieting, tell me how you feel about your body? Tell me how you feel about you? Your value? Trust me, I've been around the block enough times to see how dieting has whittled away at the self-esteem of many talented, brilliant people simply because they couldn't find success with their weight. Let's see, could it be the diet perhaps? Hmmmm.

2. Diets make us forget we have common sense- You guys KNOW what you should eat, you do. Quick, name three great choices for breakfast? Three great choices for lunch? Three great choices for dinner? See you know, it's just that for whatever reason you have ditched any inclination to listen to what you know and have opted to follow some nutty diet that will teach you little and leave you feeling once again as though you've failed.

And the number one reason you shouldn't diet,

1. Diet's Don't Work! Do I really need to elaborate?