Strength-Building Resources2

Introduction

Most diets don’t work.  We don’t like being told what to do for long, we don’t like the associated guilt, and we most often revert to earlier habits (and often higher weights).

So…we’ve had an idea.   We won’t tell you what to do.  We will build an ever-developing base of information, tools and ideas, show you a myriad of choices, and if you want to manage your weight better, we'll leave it to you to gradually take control. If you’re serious, you’ll get there, and make it stick.

Remember - it's a work in progress - both your weight control and this article!

What seems to work

A lot of evidence points to better management of weight being achieved through lots of small decisions, improving knowledge of oneself, and plenty of education.  A lot has to do with the way we think about food as it relates to our lives.

First, there are thousand of ways you can improve your weight and health without thinking in the diet-must-force-myself mode.  Your weight is as much affected by when you eat, how you eat, what you don’t eat, as what you actually consume. This means there are lots of ways you can make choices and changes.

You can eat just about whatever you want, so long as you understand you probably can’t have as much as you’d like, of exactly what you want, very often.   But if you learn some tricks and trade-offs about timing and alternatives, and better understand your thoughts toward food, this may be not too much of a problem.

It’s when you go on heavily-denying diets that it’s natural to feel frustrated and rebel…then get guilt feelings.

Second, it’s about your being in control, making choices, and tying your eating into what you want from life.  Good health and being on top of things.  The sense of freedom in making your own decisions and having them work out.

We’re not saying that no self-control is required.  It is; after all this way is a longer-term approach - in fact it’s a continuing approach.  (Like life, really)  It’s just that to try to make major changes to a body tuned by a few millions years’ evolution to protect its most critical processes can often take more than a few weeks.

We hope you find this useful.   We'll add to it and improve it frequently.