"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."
The same holds true with losing weight.
There's no doubt that if you follow a typical weight loss program with meal plans and exercise routines to the letter you will bed "fed" all the right information to lose weight. But the trouble is as soon as you stop following your prescribed regime you are lost and the weight piles back on again. You have not learnt how to deal with the real world of business trips and birthday parties, Thanksgiving dinners and Halloween, bad days and holidays. You have been spoon fed a "fish" - a diet plan with all you need to know in the short term to lose weight.
For permanent weight loss you have to learn the lifetime skills of losing weight and keeping it off no matter what the occasion and you have to know those skills so well that they come easily and naturally to you. That's when you know you are ready for a lifetime of fitness and health. You have been taught the "fishing" skills you need to know.
So what are the skills that you need to learn?
Surprisingly the skills you need to learn for lifetime weight loss are quite simple though we still insist time after time again on going after the short term diet fix. Maybe it's because the skills still take practise to learn (the same as any other skill) before they come naturally and we'd rather not make the effort - believing somehow that the short term diet fix will serve us for life. And of course it won't.
The lifetime weight loss skills are such simple things as eating a moderate amount of food at most meals, eating only when you are hungry, selecting the best most delicious foods to eat and enjoying them fully and being more active as you go about your everyday life. They don't need any special intellect or equipment. They can be adapted to any circumstances. They can be learnt and adapted gradually - one step at a time.
But instead there we are year after year - one year trying this fish (The Plaice Diet) the next year trying another (The Cod Plan) - and never ever focusing on the skills that will make diets redundant.
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