Why You Can’t Stick to Your Diet

I Initially stopped dieting when I read the book “Intuitive Eating” by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch. When I read that book for the first time, I realized that I was in the trap that so many of us find or have found ourselves in. That trap looks like this: desire to lose weight, new diet, cravings and lack of will-power, loss of control and overeating, regain lost weight, and repeat. Anyone else relate to this? The authors of Intuitive Eating call this the “Dieter’s Dilemma.”

I believe that no one diet was made to fit everyone. Diets look promising: they’re designed to get into our belief system and persuade us that they will be THE answer to all of our weight/body image problems. The issue is, we start the diet (which wasn’t made uniquely for US) and we fall into the same dieting trap. Once we feel like we’ve failed, we’re full of guilt, we’ve lost trust in ourselves and we’re on the hunt for the next promising diet (after a short, exhilarating period of eating whatever we want, of course).

We all have different genes, ancestries, favorite foods, activity levels, and lifestyles. No one diet works for everyone. It’s so much more freeing to go on a journey to find what works for your own body instead of copying someone else’s plan (aka, dieting). If copying someones plan was the answer to feeling healthy and happy then why do the majority of us still deal with overeating, guilt around food, and binge eating? Dieting suggests that we restrict certain foods, which only makes us crave them more.

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