Type 2 Diabetes - Do You Know Fad Diets Are Usually A Bad Idea?
The way your Type 2 diabetes, or your pre-diabetes, plays out is largely in your hands.
If you feel afraid by both your diagnosis and the responsibility, try to turn that fear into a determination to firstly get your eating plan on track.
Have you ever gotten the feeling that if you only changed one thing in your life, your goals would simply fall like the guards in an action flick? This is the kind of thought process which has spawned an entire, massive industry of different fad diets over the years.
While many are actually based on reasonably good nutritional science, plenty of them are not.
Many are best left in the late night infomercials where you found them.
Fad Diets: The worst part about fad diets is not even the underlying scientific merits they come out of, but the thought process which tells people just doing something, anything differently in their lives, will just magically produce results with weight loss.
Why Fad Diets Don't Work: While a lot of different diet plans work well for people who actually stick to them, one prime characteristic of a fad diet is that it is just manufactured to fail.
This is an industry, after all, and there are not many sales to be made when the existing product doesn't work well over the long-term.
And long-term, most fad diets reveal themselves to be absolute junk, not only for your wallet, but for your body...
weight loss with be followed by regaining weight.
For one thing, any diet where the very name of it implies that you will be confined to eating only one kind of food (or worse, only one food total), is doomed to abject failure, eg.
the cabbage-soup diet.
First off, there is absolutely no food on this planet that you could live entirely on, and get all of the nutrients your body needs.
In fact, it would be difficult to do that if you ate three or four foods.
Just in case you weren't paying attention, no food is healthy enough to eat exclusively and be healthy! For another thing, there is a state called appetite fatigue, in which you may be completely surrounded by food, but still end up not eating anything and actually starving.
We are not meant to only eat one kind of food.
Focus is Desire: Another problem happens when you begin to limit yourself to eating within a narrow range, or exclude certain food groups.
When you exclude something, you end up focusing on it.
And anything you focus on will automatically be what your mind aims for.
Focus is desire after all, and soon enough you will begin to crave what you're denying yourself.
That is the reason why such a diet for weight loss is automatically doomed from the outset.
Simply put, fad diets that try to limit you, end up limiting their own usefulness.
With Type 2 diabetes, the best plan is to do what it takes to lower your blood sugar level and hold onto that motivation as you begin to eat in a reasonably healthy manner, based on solid science and within confines that you can stick with over the long-term to help bring about weight loss.
If you feel afraid by both your diagnosis and the responsibility, try to turn that fear into a determination to firstly get your eating plan on track.
Have you ever gotten the feeling that if you only changed one thing in your life, your goals would simply fall like the guards in an action flick? This is the kind of thought process which has spawned an entire, massive industry of different fad diets over the years.
While many are actually based on reasonably good nutritional science, plenty of them are not.
Many are best left in the late night infomercials where you found them.
Fad Diets: The worst part about fad diets is not even the underlying scientific merits they come out of, but the thought process which tells people just doing something, anything differently in their lives, will just magically produce results with weight loss.
Why Fad Diets Don't Work: While a lot of different diet plans work well for people who actually stick to them, one prime characteristic of a fad diet is that it is just manufactured to fail.
This is an industry, after all, and there are not many sales to be made when the existing product doesn't work well over the long-term.
And long-term, most fad diets reveal themselves to be absolute junk, not only for your wallet, but for your body...
weight loss with be followed by regaining weight.
For one thing, any diet where the very name of it implies that you will be confined to eating only one kind of food (or worse, only one food total), is doomed to abject failure, eg.
the cabbage-soup diet.
First off, there is absolutely no food on this planet that you could live entirely on, and get all of the nutrients your body needs.
In fact, it would be difficult to do that if you ate three or four foods.
Just in case you weren't paying attention, no food is healthy enough to eat exclusively and be healthy! For another thing, there is a state called appetite fatigue, in which you may be completely surrounded by food, but still end up not eating anything and actually starving.
We are not meant to only eat one kind of food.
Focus is Desire: Another problem happens when you begin to limit yourself to eating within a narrow range, or exclude certain food groups.
When you exclude something, you end up focusing on it.
And anything you focus on will automatically be what your mind aims for.
Focus is desire after all, and soon enough you will begin to crave what you're denying yourself.
That is the reason why such a diet for weight loss is automatically doomed from the outset.
Simply put, fad diets that try to limit you, end up limiting their own usefulness.
With Type 2 diabetes, the best plan is to do what it takes to lower your blood sugar level and hold onto that motivation as you begin to eat in a reasonably healthy manner, based on solid science and within confines that you can stick with over the long-term to help bring about weight loss.
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