Weight Loss Tip: Avoid Using The Word Diet

di·et 1 a: food and drink regularly provided or consumed b: habitual nourishment c: the kind and amount of food prescribed for a person or animal for a special reason d: a regimen of eating and drinking sparingly so as to reduce one’s weight <going on a diet>

Doesn’t that definition sound like by “going on a diet” you are essentially starving yourself? Given a choice between starvation or replacing unhealthy food with healthy alternatives and eating enough that you never felt hungry which would you choose?

Just by the way we use the word, in most people’s minds it conjures up an illusion of something we are “going on” temporarily, but we are expecting to have permanent weight loss! You’ll notice from my posts that I completely avoid saying diet, I talk about eating healthily, and making a permanent lifestyle change. Since I started doing that I have found my weight loss so far extremely easy. I don’t worry when I see a blip in my weight. Why? Because I am making a permanent change so I have the rest of my life to get back on track. I am never hungry, because I either eat something that I consider healthy, or eat something I am craving (usually carbohydrates), but in moderation. Finally, by telling myself that this is a permanent change I will never put the weight back on, because my “diet” will never change back to the way I was eating before.