If You Don't Like Tax and Spend, Then You Probably Hate Diet and Gain

If You Don't Like Tax and Spend, Then You Probably Hate Diet and Gain
It's that time of the year again, folks. If you haven't
filed your taxes, then I'm sure you are hoping that
extension is approved. Don't worry, I understand most are,
and I wish you the best.

While I don't want this to be a discussion of the merits of
either political party's monetary policy, what I do want to
do is talk results from a different policy of taxing and
spending. That policy refers to one too many people buy
into-dieting to lose weight.

As a nutritionist, I have seen too many people diet,
repeatedly, with the same result-gaining weight. Yes, they
do lose weight at the beginning-and that is because all
diets work. The problem is that once you go ON a diet,
eventually you'll go OFF the diet, and any weight lost will
come back (I suppose you could say there is a return on
your investment-unfortunately this is one investment you'd
rather not see grow).

What happens when you lose weight, and lose it quickly (as
with many of the low carbohydrate, very low calorie diets)
is that a large part of that weight loss is water loss.
And, unfortunately, part of that weight loss is muscle
mass. Some of it will be fat, but sadly, not as much as you
want to think. When you are on a diet that deprives you of
foods you like, eventually your desire for that food
overcomes your desire to eliminate it from your life, and
so you start eating. Not only does the weight return, but
usually, you gain back more than you lost. Instead of
gaining back the muscle and the water, you wind up gaining
primarily fat. Now, that wasn't part of the original plan,
was it?

People need to give up dieting and learn to become at peace
with food. It is a risk for many people, but those who
have tried it know what it is like to no longer be afraid
of eating and being obsessed with their weight.

Becoming "at peace with food" is a journey that involves
developing a new relationship with food. Instead of being
marked by frustration and disappointment, by fear and
competition between you and the food you eat, food will
take its place as one of the many activities in your life,
along with family, friends, working and being active. And,
like these other activities, it should be
pleasurable.

In order to be at peace with
food, you need to learn about yourself and why you have the
relationship you do with the food you eat. Like all
relationships, your relationship with food took time to
develop, and it will take time to change.

So, as April 15 comes and goes, along with filing your
financial history for the last year, and assessing what
changes you have made (and need to make), you can also
consider filing a plan for changing the way you assess your
dieting and eating behaviors. While it won't be easy
(changing age old behaviors never is), consider it, shall
we say, a good investment in your future.

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