How to maintain a healthy diet ?
introduction
In today’s world, few things in life are more difficult for most people than main- taining healthy weight. There are temptations everywhere – billboards advertising cheap fast food, your favorite snacks discounted at the store, friends asking you out to grab a bite in a burger joint, or simply a pizza a phone call away, delivered in 30 minutes or less. Fortunately, obesity is not something people are born with. Except for a few legitimate medical conditions (and it doesn’t apply to over 99% of people, so you probably can’t use it as an excuse), the only reason why people are obese is their lack of self-discipline. Controlling your weight is not optional – it’s mandatory if you want to become a self-disciplined person. At the risk of sounding politically incorrect, you’re un- likely to achieve success in other areas of your life if you can’t deal with excess pounds. As life coach Peter Sage puts it in his video “3 Things All Successful People Do”[xxv], “if you don’t make time for health, you’ll have to make time for illness.”
Habit acquisition
How self-disciplined and successful can you be when your body refuses to serve you? And note it’s not an “if,” it’s a “when” if you don’t care about your health. And these are not the words coming from a person who has been slim his en- tire life. I, too, was overweight and take full responsibility for who I used to be. I had the wrong beliefs about nutrition and the wrong personal values – putting enjoyment from eating over my health. Moreover, it was my conscious decision not to educate myself how to change it. Now, that doesn’t mean I’m a proponent of following a radical diet consisting of bland foods. You can enjoy your meals and still be a healthy, vibrant human being. Which diet should you follow for best results? There’s no right answer. Dr. David Katz at Yale University’s Prevention Research Center and his Yale col- league Stephanie Meller compared various popular diets such as a low carb diet, low fat diet, low glycemic diet, Mediterranean diet, mixed/balanced (DASH) diet, Paleolithic diet, vegan diet, and elements of other diets[xxvi]. Surprisingly (or not, depending on how you look at it), they found no winner. Every diet was associated with health promotion and disease prevention as long as it was “of minimally processed foods close to nature, predominantly plants.” If you focus mostly on unprocessed foods and stick to them, your body will change. And when these new habits become a way of living for you (not a diet, but a lifestyle), you’ll notice changes in other aspects of your life, too. You’ll get more energy – which you’ll want to use to spend more time doing something active which positively affects your wellbeing. You’ll have more mental clarity, which will help you learn new things and grow as a person. Plus, you’ll de- velop a better work ethic, which will help you stick to your new resolutions and achieve your objectives more easily.
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