Up to this point, I thought dieting was supposed to be miserable. I thought my life had to go on hold while I struggled to lose weight until I reached my goal, because only then could I eat foods I actually enjoyed again. Turns out I had been wrong about dieting all my life.
What’s the right diet for me? Trust me when I say, you have a much higher chance of success if you pick a diet that fits into your current lifestyle and includes the foods you enjoy.
When you’re a newbie dieter, as we all are at one point (or many points!), you might think weight loss is strictly about calories in vs calories out. While that is weight loss in a nutshell, there’s so much more to it! Now that I’m a dieting veteran, having lost 60 pounds myself, I know weight loss like the back of my less chubby hand.
I’ve learned dieting is a lot like grief. Not only does it cause grief, but there are several stages of dieting you need to experience and work through before you can overcome and accept it. Looking back over the last 10 years of my life, I can clearly see each stage I endured as I progressed through the complex process of weight loss.
On a less depressing note, I lost 1.8 pounds this week doing WW on a whole-food plant based diet! See? It was a healthy rate to lose weight, I wasn’t starving, I ate when I was hungry, and I even chilled over the weekend without tracking to eat instinctively. My instincts work better after 5 strict days of WW because I have been measuring and can accurately eyeball a portion.
Losing weight is such a mental game. According to Brain Powered Weight Loss, one of the problems people have with succeeding on a diet is black and white thinking. WW helps me break that thinking pattern by seeing how the food I eat day to day all works together towards weight loss and proper nutrition. I can see and understand how one bad meal or day isn’t going to ruin my week.
I have been on a weight loss journey a long time, and the only program I have ever lost weight (and kept it off) is Weight Watchers. I have tried many weight loss program, and WW is by far the best.
