'I have worked with so many dietitians and gone on so many diets that I cannot succeed.' or 'Actually, I am very disciplined, I diet very well, but then I gain weight again.' These are two of the most common sentences that we dietitians encounter. Indeed, the increase in access to the internet, the perception of beauty imposed by society, sedentary life, the spread of fast food consumption and the city life diet that obliges us to do this cause us to talk more. We talk more, we are exposed to more information pollution on this subject, and we constantly find ourselves trying to find other nutritional methods. We are dieting more and trying different sports. While we once read about the benefits of a ketogenic diet, after a while this type of nutrition is denigrated in the media and we listen/read about the benefits of a vegan diet. Our neighbor is talking about how he lost weight by eating gluten-free, our colleague is talking about losing weight by not eating after 17.00. We could extend this list for pages. We find ourselves trying all these methods and then getting bored with all these restrictions. The diet, which we started with full motivation for two days, ends on the third day at our friend's birthday celebration and we start to say 'I can't lose weight'.
First of all, if you are tired of all the diets you have been on, make a cup of tea/coffee and a piece of paper in your hand before calling a dietitian again and making an appointment. I want you to buy a pen. Write down everything that you observed from your perspective and that made you tired during the whole diet process, including your inability to say no to dessert, the situations where you ate to fit in even though you didn't want to eat and still couldn't say no. Why do I want to lose weight? is the most key question for your motivation on this path. Why do you want to lose weight and how well do you know your body? Do you think the problem is with the dietitians you go to or with the diets you dare to do even though you think they do not fit your lifestyle? If you can answer these questions and decide what you really want, you can now communicate openly with your dietitian to prepare a list that suits your life and will not tire you.
But if you are in the second group that I mentioned at the beginning of the article, that is, you can do everything perfectly and reach your target weight and/or weight. after reaching health status If you reach the weight you started the diet with or even higher, it means that you have not gained healthy eating habits. Perfectionism may be underlying this, there may be other reasons affecting your eating behavior today, and as a result of all these, you may be saying "I lost the weight once, I will lose it again" with the complacency of restricting yourself for a long time. Nothing in nature is perfect, and neither are you. It is not the consumption of so-called unhealthy foods, but the frequency with which you consume them, that makes you an unhealthy eater. The harms of sugar are indisputable, but if you do not consume sugar every day, consuming sugar occasionally will not make you obese. If you completely eliminate certain foods that you love and enjoy consuming during your diet process, this process will become difficult and unbearable for you, and when the diet is over, you will turn to these foods much more than you consumed before the diet. If you can properly examine the reasons that push you to dessert, carbohydrates or high protein, it will be much easier to find a solution. Is your sweet tooth physiological, emotional or does it have deeper psychological reasons? Any process you start by keeping these under the rug will eventually make you sad, unhappy and will not last.
Instead of saying 'I need to start a diet because I am 10 kilograms overweight', I now start eating healthy. If I change some of my habits, it will be better for both my health and my psychology. ' perspective, every process you start will go well and you will have already achieved your numerical goals.
As a result, if you look at diet from the perspective of changing behavior, you are entering a path that requires more effort than losing 10 kilos in 2 months and will allow you to know yourself better. means. But as a result, you will not need dietitian support again unless there is a medical condition or a period that requires special nutritional treatment, such as pregnancy. Remember that dietitians are your companions on this path who give you nutrition education, but you know your body best and the motivation is entirely within you.
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