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When to change or start a diet?
'Diet' means 'a way of eating'. It comes from the Greek word diata meaning a way of life. The way of life you choose through what you eat, determines how well you are.
Yet for most of us Diet means to lose weight. The pressure to lose weight with a new year is tremendous, all forms of media push every form of diet fad or trend possible.
It's likely you have dieted during the first few weeks of January but as life pressures build up, if the diet is too drastic compared to your normal eating, it won't last for long. Your goal of weight loss will not be permanent. Before you start another diet joining the never-ending diet cycle, consider the following;
The diet you choose should
* support your general health, your lifestyle from daily activity work to spiritual aspirations.
* feel comfortable, tasty and satisfying.
* maintain your weight and energy level.
* maintain or improve your health.
* help you feel calm centred and in control.
Your diet should not
* inhibit your daily activity and work.
* make you irritable, over anxious or depressed.
* make you tired.
* make you overweight
* cause digestive problems
* cause pain anywhere in the digestive syndrome.
* cause you to feel guilty or confusion.
It's time to change your diet when;
* you feel ready for a change.
* it's not doing what you feel it should.
* when you are medically advised.
When you're ready for change, how do you make the right decision, what type of diet should you follow, turn this diet into a diet for life, a way to eat not one that your best mate swears by or the latest fad.
Seek professional guidance from a qualified nutritionist. To help your understand, the diet maze and find what may suit you, we've analysed all the diet trends around.
Now you have read them and decided what suits you, prepare your kitchen for a healthy start! - Throw out all the junk foods, all those times or pack it in to a box and give it to......