©Kitchen Witch Coaching
7/2011
Why Diets Don’t Work By Kristi Hyllen, CNC CHHC AADP
©Kitchen Witch Coaching
7/2011
Why Diets Don’t Work
Diets are not sustainable
How long have you been able to stick with a diet? A week? A month? A year? What’s the
likelihood of sticking with a diet for the rest of your life? Think of a diet you’ve tried, say the grapefruit
diet. Would you want to or could you be on that diet forever? And what happens when you go off
the diet? All that weight you lost comes back with a vengeance. 90% of dieters gain back more
weight after ending a diet. Why does that happen? The body sees a diet as a threat to survival, so
during a diet the body slows down metabolism and conserves fat and calories. Once the diet is
over the brain sends out chemicals to increase the appetite and consume more calories thus
increasing weight over and beyond where you started. A diet is a temporary fix that does not create
lasting change and only worsens the problem.
Diets are alienating & depressing
How many times have you declined an invitation for lunch or dinner because the food choices didn’t
match your diet? How many times have you gone out with friends and watched them enjoy
something delicious while you said “No, thank you?” A diet can alienate us from our normal social
activities which in itself is depressing. Dieting also lowers our serotonin levels which are responsible
for those “feel good” feelings produced in the brain. Low serotonin levels create depression which
leads to carbohydrate cravings to raise those serotonin levels.
Diets are stressful & restrictive
Weighing your food, counting points, and figuring out how many calories you’ve eaten is time
consuming and stressful. Following restrictive lists of what to eat and what not to eat disrupts our
appetite controls making us unable to follow our body’s internal signals for hunger, cravings, fullness
and satisfaction. We lose our ability to trust our food instincts and rely on outside sources to tell us
when, where, how and what to eat. Have you ever noticed that once you restrict your food choices
those foods are exactly the ones you become obsessed over? Restricting your food choices
causes depravation and stress to the body. And since the body refuses to be denied, cravings and
cycles of bingeing begin to occur. This explains the empty pint of Ben and Jerry’s.
Diets come with a high cost
Many diets require specialty prepared foods which come at a high price. Eventually living on frozen
meals, packaged bars and replacement shakes will ultimately fail. Why? Because specialty food
diets once again deprive and restrict, alienate and stress the body. The body’s chemistry gets off
balance and the body rebels with binge eating to consume the calories it has been missing.
Diets are not bio-individual
Diets don’t take into account that you are a unique human being unlike any other person in the
world. Your body has its own blueprint, just like your thumb has its own fingerprint, and that
blueprint causes foods to react in your body in a unique precise way. The saying “One [wo]man’s
treasure is another [wo]man’s poison” is completely true. The foods that nourish and sustain my
body may make you sick. Each diet book is actually based on a system of food that works well
based on the individuality and lifestyle of that author. If there are a billion people on the planet, then
there are a billion diets.
©Kitchen Witch Coaching
7/2011
What Can You Do Now?
Get rid of all your diet books
Pack them up, put them in a garage sale, take them to a thrift store, or drop them off at your local
library. You don’t need them. They only serve to take you farther away from your own innate
knowledge about what foods are best for your body. And resist the temptation to buy the next New
York Times Bestseller diet book. Like all the diets books of the past, it too will pass into the
graveyard of diet books that reached a moment of fame and then bit the dust.
Stop eating prepackaged foods
Prepackaged foods such as shakes, bars, frozen meals and meals in a box are not food. They are
products of “food” and most don’t even resemble the original food. The majority of them are full of
laboratory-made chemicals, fillers, preservatives, additives, colorants, and the most dubious of all:
natural flavors. There is nothing natural about any of this. Your body wasn’t manufactured in a lab
or a processing plant so why would you eat “food” that was created in that environment?
Eat whole real foods
So what do I mean by this? If it swims, walks on four legs, grows in the ground or on a tree ~ eat it.
Take a journey back in time in your mind right now, before the invention of grocery stores, before
sliced bread, way back to our ancient ancestors. What did they eat? Whatever was available from
Mother Earth: fruits, vegetables, seeds, nuts, legumes, fish, animal flesh, and animal products. No
Taco Bell, no soda, no green ketchup. Your body is a part of the earth so eat the foods that come
from the earth.
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overweight, but because when I looked in the mirror I thought I was overweight. My perception of
my body was skewed. I believed that to be loved and accepted, I had to be model skinny. Food
became my obsession and my lover. The mirror became my enemy. Once I stopped the diets and
began to eat whole foods, my life began to magnificently transform. Now I can look in the mirror
without cringing, I can wear sexy clothes and know I am perfect just the way I am. I can walk proud
out into the world and feel loved and accepted for me! You can love what you see in the mirror and
at the same time be your perfect weight while having a healthy relationship with food.
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