Don't Diet

The dieting industry is worth an estimated one billion pounds a year with the average slimmer spending £148 to lose just one pound of fat successfully. (That means keeping it off!) With that in mind it would cost a little over £2000 to shift that extra one stone! Research suggests that 95% of slimmers regain the weight they lose on a diet. How many times have you, or someone you know gone on a diet?

Diets are a temporary means of losing weight because they rely on our willpower to keep us on the right track, and this can be very challenging. You have to understand that you are overweight because of poor eating habits, and take steps to change them for better. Most ‘dieters’ will have a good weight loss in the first week – what they don’t realize is that this is mainly water, not fat.

It is no good drastically cutting down on calories for a while because your body does not know whether you are on a diet or actually starving. So it hangs on to as much fat as possible making dieting hard – you need to eat good fats to lose body fat. Many diet clubs advertise that you can eat anything you like and no food groups are forbidden. This means no new good eating habits are established, so as soon as you break your diet and revert back to your old eating habits you will regain the weight lost (and probably more) – hence the term yo-yo dieting. Dieting doesn't solve the problem of emotional eating. It can actually make people more depressed, because it becomes one of the factors that causes overeating. The more you ‘diet’ in your life the harder it becomes to lose weight. So dieting is hard because people haven't learned the difference between willpower and commitment to long-term behavior change.

The JGS Foundation was formed to help people find encouragement and professional guidance whilst they consider their need to make life changing decisions

FOR SUCCESSFUL, LONG TERM WEIGHT LOSS, MANY THINGS, NOT JUST YOUR EATING HABITS, WILL HAVE TO CHANGE!