Dieting" connotations are negative. And so, when you fail or slip from your diet,
Dieting" connotations are negative. And so, when you fail or slip from your diet, since you start the diet with negative thoughts and feelings in the first place - conscious or subconscious - you tend to blow those failures out of proportion looking for an excuse - conscious or subconscious - to quit. And when you do quit your diet, you inevitably think of yourself as a failure, get down on yourself, and take a blow to your ego, self-confidence, and self-esteem. After a while the pain of that failure goes away. That's when you're ready to try the next popular diet that comes along. Recent statistics indicate that dieters "try" an average of 4 new diets per year. This is where the really big difference about dieting lies. This
is the problem. You don't learn how to diet any better from your past mistakes. You'll approach and go on your next diet exactly the same way you went on your last failed diet. And the one before that and the one before that. Sure, you change diets. You change from low-fat to high protein to low carbs to heart healthy and on and on. But you don't change how you go about dieting. It's an interesting phenomenon. You learned to walk by falling down lots of times and each time you fell you learned something from the fall and were a bit better at walking the next
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is the problem. You don't learn how to diet any better from your past mistakes. You'll approach and go on your next diet exactly the same way you went on your last failed diet. And the one before that and the one before that. Sure, you change diets. You change from low-fat to high protein to low carbs to heart healthy and on and on. But you don't change how you go about dieting. It's an interesting phenomenon. You learned to walk by falling down lots of times and each time you fell you learned something from the fall and were a bit better at walking the next
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