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Diets Don’t Work
What a lifetime has taught me
I find it hard to accept that I’ll never be thin again. My menopausal body will forever carry extra weight, will always be wiggly and jiggly, and no amount of dieting will change that.
I’ve spent a lifetime watching out for the newest weight loss information, the newest nutrition information, and the newest way of maintaining the weight loss. I watched my mom diet, lose weight, get fatter, diet again, lose weight again, get even fatter, over and over again. I’ve followed the same insidious cycle.
Here’s a few things I’ve learned about dieting over the decades:
A diet will never work
No diet, not Weight Watchers, not intermittent fasting, not Keto plans, nothing, will ever work long term. The only thing diets do is make me fatter. Every time, every single time, without fail, I’ve lost weight and then gained it all back, plus some. It doesn’t matter which diet plan I tried, I ended up heavier than before I started.
By restricting my eating and ‘jump starting’ my new diet, all I’m doing is creating a world where I’ll binge eat at some point. I’ll be ‘good’ and stick to the plan, but then realize this plan isn’t sustainable in the long run and revert back to my old eating habits.
