This is something of a hot topic or can be sometimes in the weight loss industry, the thing is for a long time now there has been so many new fad diets it’s unbelievable.

Atkins diet this diet that the other diet, but in the true big picture of things it would seem that they don’t always work.

Why is that you may ask well if you look at the difference between fat people and thin people and say for instance, and took down notes of what a thin person ate you might be quite surprised at the results that you found.

Thin people can and do eat the foods that overweight people do but it’s probably more to do with eating habits as in the way your mind is programmed as regards eating food. And most of this goes on in the background you don’t even have to think about it.

Associations are being built in your mind all the time a famous Russian scientist named Pavlov, did some experiments with dogs and the results were very interesting,  this is what was found when they gave the dogs some food they rang a bell at the same so time so the dog’s mind associated the ringing of a bell, with food so when there was no food and they rang the bell the dog salivated.

So if you think about this and your own eating habits notice anything could it be that sometimes you sitting down watching television and at one time or another, you may have had a pizza so the pizza habit is born.

Or what about chocolate you may eat that when you’re feeling a bit down or low the problem with food is it gives your mind a reward feeling when you eat it this is remembered by your brain so it stands to reason that if any food you particularly liked a lot, then there could be strong associations in your mind to eat that food, that made you feel so good.

You may not even realise you have some subconscious habits think about your day as a whole do you always get out of the same side of your bed, do you come down and have your breakfast straight away or opening your curtains or any other tasks that you might do when you get up.

Now if you compare these to when you eat food you might find out that you will eat at certain times at certain places and somewhere in your mind there will be a subconscious trigger which will do this the trick is to find out what it is and then put something in place of it so instead of eating food you could go for a walk, or do something other than eat food this will hopefully break the habit pattern that you have formed over time, what you could also do is take a note of when you eat food and when and see if there is a pattern most eating habits are formed without you even realising it.

So perhaps it’s time to take control of the food monster and getting him under control.

In one of the largest studies on weight loss it has been shown that diets for a lot of people just don’t work after a time they end up right back where they first started.
Which in turn makes for more problems in the long run.

In this particular study it highlighted that two thirds of the participants put weight back on yo yo dieting isn’t very good for the body as a whole.

• The findings which where published in the American Psychologist Journal 2004 found that two and half million Australian people had been on tried a low carb diet.
• The scientists concluded from all there data that diets simply don’t work
• Pooling the results from all the studies showed that people do initially lose weight but in the end gain it all back and in some cases weighed even more than they did before after the diet phase was over.
• One of the researchers said you can lose between five and ten percent on any diet but once your out that zone as you might call it the weight piles back on.
• A portion of people monitored over a four to five year period gained there weight back and more besides.
• Participants where found to put on 5kgafter a few years which is quite a lot.

The conclusion of this study finds that in the long term people can tend to be time poor, want results quickly when this doesn’t happen people lose interest and go back to how they where eating before. Look in most gyms after Christmas you will probably find quite a few people in them trying to get rid of there excess pounds eaten over the holiday period then as time goes on the amount goes down gradually.

Some people who where invloved with this study felt good when they had lost there weight but came depressed when they gained it back again hence yo yo dieting.

So many fad diets come out these days it can be overwhelming knowing which one to choose, my advice do what works for you just learn what foods do help with weight loss and eat like that forever it’s not how you eat it’s what you eat that matters you need to eat that way for life. Forget the word “diet” just eat to lose your weight and stick to it if that’s possible.

Via http://www.news.com.au