| The amount of diets and exercise fads in the United | | | | cheerfully abide by the rules of a diet, they are |
| States is innumerable. Maybe this happens because | | | | mentally prepared to lose weight-which is absolutely |
| there are a lot of people who, after embracing a diet | | | | necessary in being able to keep off weight in the |
| for several months, gain all the weight they lost back all | | | | future. Changing the way someone looks at diets and |
| too quickly. Maybe because of the high percentage of | | | | exercising may seem to be an inefficient method of |
| overweight people in the United States that many | | | | losing weight, but if one does change their perspective |
| nutritionists, dieticians, and all others feel an obligation to | | | | the results will show. |
| promote (and hope to profit from) diet and exercise | | | | Staying physically fit is not just about self-control and |
| plans. Maybe because it's the media and pop culture | | | | understanding healthy eating habits, it's an issue of mind |
| that highly value slender bodies, making everyone who | | | | over matter. Overcoming thought processes that |
| does not fit in that category feel extremely pressured | | | | allowed and justified weight gain can be done through |
| to fit in. If you fit in that disliked category, you know | | | | goal setting, detailed planning, and especially repetition. |
| that your mind is suffering a lot too. | | | | After one sets a goal, specifies plans (written down) |
| Losing weight is not easy, keeping weight off is even | | | | that include specific dates and methods, and reinforces |
| harder. The harder one tries, the more temptations and | | | | the belief that one will lose weight by reading aloud a |
| cravings there are. Staying fit is as hard on the mind | | | | document of one's plan and hopes as if it had already |
| as it is on the body. Take the word diet, for example. | | | | occurred, then one will be prepared to mentally take on |
| Anyone who does not like to prohibit certain types or | | | | the challenges of losing weight. There are many |
| amounts of food hates this word. To them, the word | | | | benefits to exercising, eating healthy, and, in general, |
| diet means: die (on) it. However, in order to lose and | | | | staying in shape. One of these benefits, perhaps the |
| keep off excess weight, one needs to not only apply | | | | best benefit, is the quality of mind that exercise and |
| a diet to their life but must also be able to fully | | | | healthy eating habits eventually induces: a mentally |
| embrace this word. When one is able to accept and | | | | healthy mindset and good self-esteem. |