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Diet Success
By karen | April 9, 2007
A favorite family recipe of ours comes from a very popular diet book circa 1985. It’s rather high-carb, but really healthy, lots of beta-carotene and antioxidants. So I broke it out the other day to accommodate my stepson who has decided to become a vegetarian. He watched PETA films on the Internet and he was very disturbed. I told him it’s great if you want to be a vegetarian but don’t watch the disturbing stuff! It just makes you feel really bad and totally grosses you out!
So the other day as I was cooking this recipe I spent some time looking over this diet from the past.
In 1985 this diet was “The State of the Art” way to lose weight. I know this because it says so right on the cover of the book. It also says that it was “America’s All-time #1 Health and Diet Book” and there are about 8 pages of testimonials from people who used the diet to lose weight, gain energy, lower their blood pressure, reduce cholesterol, create amazing changes in their lives, and yada, yada, yada.
But like many of the popular diets, this diet has fallen by the wayside. And in fact all of the current diet trends and accepted nutritional wisdom of today tend to contradict that diet. But at the time, it worked for many people. It was very popular back in its day.
So I started thinking and it occurred to me that the truth of the matter is that any diet and every diet plan ever known to man has worked for somebody. Somebody has had amazing success. But of course, there is no diet that has worked for everybody.
So when it comes to dieting (or most anything else also for that matter) is it the science and the technology of the plan or is it the belief and the faith of the person using it?
If you truly believe that something will work for you, it usually does. If you don’t believe it will work it usually doesn’t.
It’s really that simple.
So if you want to lose weight, it’s easy, just find a diet you can believe in!
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July 29th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
I guess this again would go back to you should do what works for you. I have had a pretty powerful experience that makes me a bit biase in the direction of healthy eating which I blog about in my article “Effects of Diet”. I would however agree that what works for me may not be the best solution for all.