Dieting with a Weekend Break

Dieting, by any other name, is food restriction that puts its host at risk to develop an eating disorder.

• Any sort of diet is not the most effective way to lose weight and keep it off.
• By restricting food rigorously and then letting go on of the discipline on weekends, a person reinforces the belief that she cannot trust her own instincts to regulate herself naturally, that she cannot trust her body to respond naturally to hunger and satiety, that extreme behaviors and pseudo-controls are adequate solutions to problems that requires more substantial attention, and that she is incapable of achieving healthy eating habits.
• This person who feels so out of control of food is most likely feeling out of control of many other aspects of her life as well. Not a comfortable feeling.

The Ultimate Weight Loss Prescription
I believe there is one "best" way to lose weight effectively and to keep it off. It is in some ways uniquely individualized for each person... based on a person's food preferences, and the sports they enjoy. Yet there is nothing new or special or revolutionary to learn. In fact, the challenge for us is returning to the intelligence of our instincts, to the age-old principles that we have always known, yet may have put aside or forgotten in our efforts to be always thinner and better and to live longer. The trick to maintaining a healthy, fit and thin body is feeding a healthy metabolism.

This happens through healthy eating, a process that in some ways is self-obvious, yet at the same time, elusive. Healthy eating has little to do with dieting, food restriction, or extreme exercise regimes. Healthy eating is moderate eating, balanced eating and regular eating. It is eating that accompanies and is part of a healthy lifestyle of sleep and exercise, and that knows no extremes.