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Originally Posted by DennyCrane
I'm glad you used the term super-religious. In the same way you can't judge Christianity or Islam by its followers, you can't judge a diet by its followers. I was following Paleo long before anyone had even heard of it and I get annoyed about how defensive and preachy some people get about it. If a diet says you must not eat this food or that food, that's fine. But there are degrees to which someone follows a diet. Some of us are just stricter than others. I do Paleo maybe 80-90% of the time. On the weekends, I'll indulge and have a burger, pizza, or ice cream. Someone who's stricter might say I'm not truly following Paleo. I'll just roll my eyes. I've met people who say they're Paleo, but they'll have a glass of wine every night with dinner. I won't lecture them, but in my mind I'm thinking they're not as serious about it as me. In the end, who cares what someone else is doing or calling it. I come back to religion. Someone could say they're Christian, but maybe they haven't been to church in months. I'm not going to tell them they're not a real Christian.
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Exactly!!!! i was reading an article in Time Magazine about diets. And they said basically, the best one is one that you tailor for yourself.. and some people were reported as having success after they tried several different ways. one person even gained 10 pounds while seeking the best way.. but one day you will find your niche and then settle into that, and that is when you find it works for you.
The other thing that i hear is "Diets dont work" No, thats not true. YOU did not work, rather. It means you tried a way of eating and then after a time, maybe a few months, you started back in your old ways. You got tired of disciplining yourself, and then you start to miss your old foods, or else you take that one step and never return. You start to justify why you need that piece of cake. But the most reason you say "diets dont work" is when you cheated one day, and it turned into two, then three, and then you never catch ahold of yourself and go back to your healthy way of eating.
Just ask anyone who claims diets dont work - ask them what happened, and you will see similar things happen. they left the diet and did not return.. maybe the diet itself was the problem - that they did not stick with it for life.
#2 - why diets dont work - because food is meeting other things for you than fuel. If you use food for love, for rewards, for emotional relief, self medicate, tastes good, its free leftovers, it was a gift, i cant dissappoint my mom who slaved over the stove all day; i'm celebrating; im stressed, i have no one to love me, someone hurt my feelings so this brownie will make me feel good, i got abused so i turned to food, i felt safe building up a wall to protect me from abuse, i'm going on vacation; im on a cruise, everybody does it; etc. these are the things that make us overweight.
Remember - food is fuel.
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