17 April 2018
In Finland, an experiment was carried out on 2,000 sets of twins.
One twin went on a diet, the other didn’t.
Later it was discovered that the dieting twin was nearly three times more likely to become overweight when the diet stopped than the non-dieting twin.
So the researchers did the experiment again. And guess what they discovered this time?
The more times one twin went on a diet, the more the risk of becoming overweight again increased dramatically.
In their final report, the researchers concluded: “It is now well established that the more people engage in dieting, the more they gain weight in the long term.”
Sadly, by the time the average woman reaches the age of 45 she has been on at least 16 diets.
None of them have succeeded in keeping off the weight that was lost – so she has become trapped in the diet-fail cycle.
Why do diets fail? Because they approach your problem by telling you what to eat or not to eat.
What you should address are the reasons WHY you eat. The irresistible cravings for sugar, the horrible binges, the painful hunger, the awful guilt, the emotional eating – all of that destructive behaviour is controlled from inside your head.
Once your hormones start to turn against you – as they are programmed to do when you deprive yourself on a diet – you haven’t got a chance.
Diets put our bodies under mental and physical pressure and that means our stress hormones go crazy, misfiring all over the place and making the body store fat and crave sugary things.
A much more effective way is to learn good nutrition habits for life and to learn to read your body’s nutrition needs versus what society tells you you want to eat. Book a one to one session to get started on breaking free from the diet/weight gain cycle!!
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