{"id":828,"date":"2023-09-19T18:54:36","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T18:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dideesmagazine.com\/uk\/?p=828"},"modified":"2023-10-04T01:27:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T01:27:49","slug":"the-right-strategy-for-weight-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dideesmagazine.com\/uk\/2023\/09\/19\/the-right-strategy-for-weight-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"The Right Strategy for Weight-Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With every weight-loss journey the inevitable questions from people around you will arise: What are you doing to lose weight?<\/p>\n<p>They expect to hear of some magical new formula or some highly strategic approach to weight-loss that is 100% reproducable with every other person, if only they\u2019re not weak and follow the program to the T. And since it is a proven to work program, why doesn\u2019t it work for you?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been through more than one of them. I have experienced why they work and why they eventually fail. Even though they work for some, they can\u2019t work for everyone. But why can\u2019t they?<\/p>\n<p>The simple answer is: Almost all of them are designed to restrict. Even the ones that have a cheat day, even the ones that have a point system. At the end of the day, they restrict. They restrict your calorie intake without addressing any of the issues that got you to the weight you are now.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Keto restricts carbs,<\/li>\n<li>Low carb restricts carbs,<\/li>\n<li>A weight-loss oriented vegan diet restricts all animal-based products (This is in no way meant as a critique of a vegan diet, simply on the only weight-loss oriented branch of it).<\/li>\n<li>Low sugar restricts sugar,<\/li>\n<li>Low fat restricts fat,<\/li>\n<li>Paleo restricts everything that wasn\u2019t available to our ancient ancestors (without factoring the biodiversity in plants and animals that our ancestors had available that we no longer do),<\/li>\n<li>Protein fasting restricts protein (don\u2019t confuse that with a new diet system emerging in Germany at the moment: More Protein fasting. They\u2019re doing the exact opposite: They increase protein intake and restrict calories based on time restricted eating.<\/li>\n<li>Weight Watchers restrict calories based on a point system,<\/li>\n<li>Calorie counting restricts calories,<\/li>\n<li>Portion control restricts calories based on portion sizes.<\/li>\n<li>Intermittent fasting restricts calories based on time-restricted eating.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They all have restrictions in common. And while restriction to a certain degree solves weight-loss, most of these diet systems aren\u2019t sustainable. They don\u2019t address the root of your weight issues, nor do they address the long-term requirements to keep your weight where it is.<\/p>\n<p>Because eventually, we stop dieting. What happens then? We eat as we did before &#8211; in the best cast. We regain the weight. And we return to yet another frustrating diet.<\/p>\n<p>It happened to me. This is not the first diet for me. But I am determined for it to be my last.<\/p>\n<p>Why? Because I am going into this with my eyes wide open, knowing that my issues aren\u2019t just the calories I take in today. My issues are also based in my past and my psyche. If I don\u2019t address these food-related beliefs, the diet culture behind them and their significance in my life, I will never achieve long-lasting weight loss.<\/p>\n<p>My approach is going back. Looking at where my issues came from and healing whatever trauma and wounds were caused that I am still nursing by eating.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you continue this journey with me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Week 2<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Weight: 206 lbs<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Motivation: High<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With every weight-loss journey the inevitable questions from people around you will arise: What are you doing to lose weight? They expect to hear of some magical new formula or some highly strategic approach to weight-loss that is 100% reproducable with every other person, if only they\u2019re not weak and follow the program to the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/dideesmagazine.com\/uk\/2023\/09\/19\/the-right-strategy-for-weight-loss\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Right Strategy for Weight-Loss<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32,28],"tags":[173,170,193,190,174,192,169,191],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-body-balance","category-wellness","tag-column","tag-diet-culture","tag-diet-strategy","tag-finding-self","tag-last-diet","tag-restricted-eating","tag-weight-loss","tag-weightloss-journey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dideesmagazine.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dideesmagazine.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dideesmagazine.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dideesmagazine.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dideesmagazine.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dideesmagazine.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":829,"href":"https:\/\/dideesmagazine.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions\/829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dideesmagazine.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dideesmagazine.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dideesmagazine.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dideesmagazine.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}