Diet: Why not to be afraid of the term 'diet'

Unrealistic, deprivation and restriction are just a selection of the words many associate with the term diet, but did you know that changing your perception of this four letter word has the ability to transform your psychological approach to weight loss?

Despite the media fueled fear surrounding diets, many fail to acknowledge that regardless of its nature, we all have a diet - be it healthy, unhealthy or specialised. In fact, any living creature that habitually consumes a selection of food and drink is regarded as having a diet, so why do we continue to fill with fear at the very thought of participating in a natural ritual essential to life?

Although diets are often associated with a restrictive food and caloric intake, it is important to understand that this is just one variation - the variation the media, manufacturers and marketing fueled fitness professionals use to religiously bombard 'desperate dieters' with in an attempt to lure them into buying a specific magazine, a specialised food or drink product or an unsustainable diet plan 'essential' for weight loss.

By ignoring the unrealistic and restrictive 'diets' you've learned to fear through others insistence, you will quickly realise that you have the ability and power to transform your diet into a realistic variation that works for you, your goals and your lifestyle, as opposed to subjecting yourself to the deprivation 'diets' have become renowned for. Once this simple skill has been mastered, not only will your psychological perception of a harmless and misunderstood word change, you will also increase the likelihood of weight loss success and sustainability as you realise that the term 'diet' resembles any food and drink eaten on a habitual basis regardless of its intention - not a period of deprivation essential for weight loss.

A diet isn't something to fear nor does it only resemble deprivation and restriction. It is an action essential to life and survival that you have the choice and ability to make as healthy, or as unhealthy as you wish. The second that you begin to fear the word diet and associate it only with weight loss, is the second that you risk jeopardising your chance of creating the one 'diet' essential for sustainable weight loss and a healthy future - the diet that works for you.