Fad Diets

Everyone starts a diet with only the best of intentions. When you chose your last diet, maybe it was one that you've heard a lot of good things about. It worked for these other people, it should work for you, is what you thought. So, you proceeded to throw out your sodas and junk food and start fresh by eating a group of specific foods that the plan promises will help you drop those pounds in no time.

That first day, you're really optimistic. Sure, you can eat only what it says for you to eat and not a bit more! You breeze through that first day with no problem. On the third day of eating this way, you're still hanging in there, but you're feeling a little cranky from not being able to eat that burger you saw your friend eating at lunch. You convince yourself that food shouldn't make you happy - it's all about the calories.

On the fifth day of eating your fad diet food, you're finding it difficult to raise the fork up to your mouth for one more bite of this stuff. You've been daydreaming about all the foods you miss, pizza, fries, burgers, chips, ice cream . . . you know you can't have them, but shoot. Why does dieting have to be so hard?

On day seven, you're so tired, cranky and hungry that you start to hate the sight of that salad sitting in front of you. Yeah, it's healthy, but what you really want is some REAL food. You decide right then and there that you're going to kick this diet thing to the curb and go back to eating normal again.

As you bite into that juicy burger (with all the fixings), you feel good that you're not going to be hungry anymore, but you also feel guilty for abandoning yet another diet that you swore to yourself you'd stay on until you lost X amount of pounds. If only you had more willpower.

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