WHY dieting doesn't usually work long-term

Did you overindulge over the holidays and are now trying to shed those unwanted pounds? Is weight loss one of your top New Year's resolutions AGAIN?? As you may know I struggled with my weight for years and have managed to get the weight off and keep it off for 9 years now. I even wrote a book about how I did it called The A List: 9 Guiding Principles for Healthy Eating and Positive Living.

The key to my long-term success has been a combination of eating, lifestyle and attitude change which required a lot of self-understanding, self-awareness and self-acceptance.  I continue to apply these keys today in order to keep the weight off. Was it fast and easy? NO. Was it worth it? ABSOLUTELY YES. It also wasn't as slow and difficult as you might think. After all the years of dieting the 'fast and easy' way only to lose the weight and gain it all back and more, it was actually much slower and longer than once I made the one biggest change that actually WORKED. 

The biggest change was to stop dieting. Believe me, I know how tempting it is to start a new restrictive and often unbalanced and unhealthy diet or try some new fad, pill, bar or shake. I understand the longing to see some results fast thinking it is what you need to motivate you further. But before you give in to these tempting solutions that usually yield short-term results at best, I invite you to watch this TED Talks Video that clearly explains the brain science behind WHY dieting doesn't usually work for long term results.  

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Roslyn is a motivational speaker, proud cancer survivor, personal coach and best-selling author of The A List: 9 Guiding Principles for Healthy Eating and Positive Living who will energize, educate and empower you to live a happy, healthy and resilient life. For more information and to connect with Roslyn, visit http://www.roslynfranken.com.

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