Your diet is WRONG!
Why are you dieting? What are you eating? What are you not eating? What are you looking to gain?
Let’s explore your eating habits how the lack of results you want is directly related.
Maybe you’re trying to cure yourself of a particular bacteria or disease, maybe your gaol is to lose weight. Maybe your goal is to gain weight. Maybe your dieting because your a diabetic. Maybe you’ve done some extensive research and simply don’t trust any of the food industries policy especially here in America. No matter the reason your diet and your reasons for that particular choice of eating habit is very personal.
The other thing about dieting is there are just far too many diets to keep up with and they all serve some sort of purpose in their own right.
There were 30 different diets ranked by nationally recognized dietitians on USNews. Ranking from Mediterranean Diet at #1 85.1% overall score all the way to Raw food diet coming in at #30 with an overall score of 61.4%
https://health.usnews.com/best-diet/best-diets-overall
Too manhy to choose from. There is no right or wrong answer. It’s based on your objective, your personal choice, and ultimately what works best for you.
For example the best diets for diabetics would be mediterranean, flexitarian and Mayo Clinic diets. Focusing on starch in vegetables like yucca or plantains fatty fish and legumes.
Low carb diets or different approaches to them like Atkins Paleo and keto diets
But losing carbs could affect your ability to feel full. Which may have you eating more than you want for your caloric intake.
All veggies may affect your ability to feel full because of the lack of protein.
Not everyone deals with these nutritional losses the same. Not everyone has the mental toughness to understand feeling hungry is ok.
So you have to explore what works for you. Adding exercise to a restrictive meal plan will always work because of the deficit you can place yourself in by burning calories and building muscle.
Making sure you are following something that isn’t a trend to you is important.
A trend to you is something that is hyped up to get you results but not something that you can make a lifestyle. The best diet for you is one that you can make a lifestyle and works inside of your ability to afford and have access to the things that are best for you .
Let’s deal with some basics
You can get scientific and nerdy by finding your TDEE (total daily energy expenditure) the number of calories you burn each day regularly, and eat less than that to lose weigh and eat more than that to gain weight. Working out adds to the expenditure so you would have to factor that in as well.
This is why it is extremely important to know exactly what your fitness goals are. There are a few ways to get there and then you have to tailor your actual body to what’s needed.
For example I’m highly active I workout everyday ending my session with at least 20 mins on the heavy bag kick boxing and boxing. And based on my weight height and age I should shoot to consume 2865 calories daily. But I also know I want to maintain certain features about my body that I’ve worked hard to gain and also I know I’m going to have a day or two that I simply don’t care what I eat. So my daily trend by habit and lifestyle is to stay in a deficit with my calories. I most days of the week only eat one meal, seldomly 2 and rarely more than that. But I can maintain that because I don’t allow the feeling of hunger influence my discipline.
For me the more I feel hungry and don’t eat I begin to feel like a super hero. I can feel my stomach strengthening and my will power level up. Hey, we all need to find ways to push through and toughen up. So it’s all worth it to me
You see, your lack of results first comes from lack of discipline. Even if the diet you’ve chosen isn’t one that you can make a lifestyle if you follow it, restrictively for an extensive amount of time, you will heed results. So discipline is the problem.
If you begin to see results rapidly and wonder why they reversed - it’s probably a diet that isn’t for you because your lifestyle will not allow you to keep consistent with what’s needed.
Your eating habits and dieting should not be temporary. You didn’t become out of shape obese and unhealthy because you at bad and day didn’t work out once. No, It’s something that you did faithfully for a long time, typically a lifetime up until this point. So changing habits for a couple months will trick you into believing you’ve started a new life. This will be incorrect until you start new habit and keep them.
Old habits must die new habits must thrive.