A Dieter's Diet History Equals a Solution for Weight Loss

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Let's get started with losing weight! We'll begin with your most valuable source - your diet history. It's a very important piece of the Weight Loss Puzzle and can help you achieve your Weight Loss Goals, as well as ensure that the lost weight stays off forever.

Let's begin with the following questions:

Diet History Question #1. What type of diet or weight loss plan did you choose for your last diet? A special note to first-time dieters. Weight Loss Success is vital as failure can trigger the Diet Yo-Yo Syndrome.

A failed weight loss plan for all dieters can also equal rapid weight gain resulting from any of the weight lost on the diet plan, including gaining more weight than was lost.

Your Former Diet Plan & Weight Loss Plans

If you're like the average dieter, you may have suddenly decided that it was time for the unwanted weight to come off and that you would accomplish such - do or die. And to be brutally honest, losing weight can indeed prove fatal when improperly executed. And who wants to be fatally executed? In fact, the weight loss process can prove more harmful than the extra weight when based on an unsafe, unhealthy daily diet for weight loss.

So although we want to reach the magic number on the scales, we need to do such wisely and cautiously in order to preserve our good health, choosing a diet plan that not only triggers weight loss, but a diet or weight loss plan that is safe.

Let's look at a few very common methods for losing weight and weigh the pros and cons.

Weight Loss Method #1 - generally the most common mode of weight loss.

After an individual decides that the extra pounds must come off, they decide that the quickest and easiest way of getting off the pounds is by using popular diet foods in their daily diet. These common foods may include: boiled eggs, grapefruit, crackers, tuna, rice cakes and cottage cheese.

Now, the body -  being a very delicate instrument requiring a variety of daily vitamins and nutrients, will operate for only so long on a daily diet lacking such. As time goes by, the body's reserves get lower and lower and eventually, the body is placed at risk for ill health unless swift, positive action is initiated. Usually, the positive action isn't positive at all, rather a binge which in turn leads to the end of the diet plan with the former dieter returning to their previous unhealthy eating pattern.

As to an unhealthy eating pattern, this may equate to a daily diet filled with far too many calories - empty calories, or those calories derived from fat or calories containing zero to minimal nutritional values, or simply an excess in calories. But an unhealthy eating pattern may also equal a daily diet filled with the healthiest of foods, yet containing simply too many calories. An excess of calories in the daily diet - even when  packed with only the healthiest of foods will indeed create weight gain.

Weight Loss Method #2 - Forced Dieting.

Doctor's orders may force weight loss. Or, an individual may feel 'forced' into losing weight by surrounding circumstances, such as a nagging husband, wife or partner who is 'fed up' with the extra pounds, or by a child who may be embarrassed over the appearance of a parent, or it may be the child him/herself that is forced into a weight loss situation. An individual's place of employment may trigger a forced diet plan in order to climb the steps on that oh-so-important ladder of Professional Success, or a celebrity may feel forced to lose weight because of public mockery - even when the celebrity is not overweight, but has exceeded her/his stick-thin Diet History shape.

Forced dieting is the worst weight loss situation ever. It's one thing when an individual takes the initiative to lose weight and quite another when weight loss arrives in the form of 'doctor's orders'. We-humans tend to want to do exactly what we are told that we cannot do - not a good thing when one must drop pounds for health issues. The weight loss plan is basically doomed before it takes off the ground because overeating often stems from the factors involved in forced dieting: nervousness, anxiety, fear, threats, concern, worry, pressure, health & the impact of weight gain. Food in turn may represent a peaceful oasis where the individual can take their minds off their troubles. It often represents comfort, or security. An individual who is constantly under pressure may feel that eating is the only thing in life that they can do right.

More recently, the ill-effects can be seen from Forced Weight Maintenance in those individuals appearing on television shows that center around weight loss, or who are spokespersons for diet related products. The pressure often becomes too much as an individual is often the center target for the Public's Eye and they start to slip, gradually regaining the lost weight only to be handed the gift of embarrassment and humiliation after their hailed achievements of weight loss success. Yes indeed, we live in a cruel world at times.

Whatever method triggers weight loss, treating the weight loss journey as an fun adventure rather than a dreaded chore can set the stage for permanent weight loss.

Diet History Question #2. What event or situation ended your diet plan(s)? Did your diet end with a binge? Boredom? Anxiety and frustration over not reaching your weight loss goals? Impatience? Or, did your diet end with success, eventually leading into a circle of weight gain again?

Examine your Diet History under the Diet Microscope and examine it closely. What factors, situations or elements worked together in harmony to generate weight loss? Which areas failed or created hot spots in your diet plan?

For example, let's say that Dieter Frank loves cheesecake. All was well in his diet plan until he attended a party featuring his favorite cheesecake. Frank immediately entered a vortex of tormented cravings for his recently-abandoned food fav, then proceeded to implode his diet plan as he vigorously attacked the cheesecake wonderment of delight.

Therefore, as Frank views his Diet History and the incident that triggered the binge, he might adjust any of the following in order to forego future recurrences to ensure his weight loss success:

- Frank may take a reduced-calorie, reduced-fat version of his cheesecake to his next party.

- Frank may eat a light meal before attending his next party, thus suppressing his appetite sufficiently so that he doesn't fall over the Diet Edge.

- Frank may don teensy-tight clothing or tighten his belt a teensy-bit so that he is reminded of the effects of Cheesecake Overload - a subliminal suggestion, albeit effective.

- Frank may try shifting his interest from food to other events in-action at the party, such as Susie who is actually eons more attractive and sweet than that crummy, tempting, fat-loaded cheesecake.

The point is that Frank is now in tune to the episode that wrecked his former diet plan. Knowing such can assist Frank in avoiding Part 2 of his Cheesecake Diet Train Wreck.

Diet History Question #3. What was your mood at the beginning of your diet plan, during your diet plan and at the end of your diet plan? Excited about weight loss? Sour? Feeling forced to do something that you just really didn't want to do?

Buck-up, little dieter! Time to root-out those ill, bottled-up feelings that have long-gone sour. Onward, upward to weight loss success - a pinnacle that offers a higher level of esteem, of personal pride, of personal satisfaction, of accomplishment, of power over food, control over what goes into your body!So much to gain and none of it involves 'weight gain'.

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