In total, there are more than 100,000 types of diets in the world, including health, wellness and those that are used to change body weight. Therapeutic, as a rule, are constant, their action is studied in clinical conditions, and there are not many of them. But among the diets for weight loss new items appear, almost every day. They even have a unique fashion, they compile ratings of their popularity. Today, the diet ceases to matter only a special diet. It becomes a hobby, a way of life, an object of worship, a topic for conversation. Researchers from the Center for Dietetics of the University of Boston conducted a survey and found that the diet is now increasingly gaining social significance. People who do not observe any restrictions in food and who openly declare about it, are less likely to succeed in communication. This is the effect of time. A world in which youth, health and excellent physical form are valued, can not positively take a person who eats everything when they want. Probably, that's why there are more and more people who do not eat after six, drink water every three hours, starve once a week, boil unsalted soup from rubbed cabbage and turn away from tarts with tears.
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But any diet implies limitations and refusals. You must not eat when you want. You should not eat whatever you want. You should not eat as much as you want. It's stress for you and the body. The longer and stricter the diet, the greater its impact on your overall condition. The director of the British Mental Health Foundation, Andrew McCullough, warns that significant changes in nutrition can lead even to mental disorders! But also in the event that the diet does not involve a cardinal change in the image and diet, psychological problems are possible.
Mood. First, it usually improves - from anticipation of change, the feeling "I did it!" and a feeling of lightness throughout the body. This lasts 3-5 days, regardless of the choice of even the most correct and useful diet and results. And then the mood for some reason begins to deteriorate. Weight loss is not as rapid as expected at first (the body begins to save resources, metabolism slows down), and there is regret: "From everything I refuse, but for what?". In addition, compliance with the diet is a very laborious task: first you need to buy special products, then cook them in a special way, and it strains and annoys. Yes, and the body begins to protest against the changed lifestyle: the head will break down, then weakness will overcome. Severe cases of mood disorders when dieting, as a rule, does not happen. But apathy, indifference to the usual home affairs and work come often.
Thinking. A hungry man thinks about food. He can even make mistakes and completely certain reservations, because the obsession with desire to eat at last becomes a constant background. The harder the diet, the more women are interested in different recipes, magazines and books about delicious healthy food. They cook a lot for their family by literally feeding them, or they constantly talk about the importance of proper nutrition and their own problems in this area. Food and everything connected with it become an overvalued idea. This interferes with work and life. A fixation on one and the same irritates others.
Reactions. Nutritionists note increased aggressiveness and irritability of losing weight. And this is quite natural: a diet, from the point of view of psychology, is frustration, deprivation. If we really want something, but can not achieve (or can not afford), then the tension gradually increases. A person can not relax, he is constantly on a platoon. There is enough one word or remark, so that the accumulated annoyance of the mountain avalanche would fall on the one who turned up on the arm. Most often, of course, goes home. Therefore, the words "mom on a diet" are usually pronounced in a whisper. As, for example, "mother with a grenade".
Sleep. First, its deterioration is perceived as an increase in energy ("Even in the late evening I'm full of energy"), but then it becomes clear that it's just a matter of hunger: the body is awake in the hope of obtaining food. What a dream, when "there is a hunt"! And since the "extraction" he refused, soon there is a feeling of fatigue, weakness, the desire to lie down during the day. Most often this happens with prolonged restrictive diets, a significant decrease in the caloric content of the diet or the exclusion of a significant, beloved product.
Interests. This is a good indicator of whether or not the diet suits you. If the circle of your interests has remained the same or even expanded due to better health, increased self-esteem, then everything is in order. Are you tired of communication, usual activities, often you do not want to go out even from home? With food restrictions, you obviously overdid it.
Relations with people. It is hardest for those who lose weight alone. Especially if others do not support and even mock at your suffering. There is a sense of misunderstanding and alienation. Sometimes disagreements arise from scratch. Long stay on the most correct and useful diet changes character. Appearance, irritability and some detachment appear. A woman seems to be turned off from the process of communication. "You again seem not to be with us," they tell her. She takes offense and fences even more. It turns out a vicious circle.
All described "dietary passions" relate mainly to the fair sex. Men and diet - concepts are rarely compatible: they have their views on life in general and on nutrition in particular.
Men have higher self-esteem . If you ask a couple who has the same weight problems (as a percentage of normal weight), then it turns out that a woman is worried about extra pounds much more than a man. She can consider herself fat, while he himself is a respectable "man in the prime of his life." Men have a different scale of values. It is important for us to be attractive, and for men to be wealthy. This is both innate instincts and attitudes of society. Therefore, men, much less often we think about the beauty of their body. Men have a different attitude to eating. At its core, all members of the stronger sex are hunters. At the dawn of civilization, the production of food required a lot of energy, so they are still gorging themselves to this day, preferring abundant and high-calorie food. A woman usually experiences a feeling of dissatisfaction after a plentiful meal, because she is deprived of a sense of ease. And the man becomes kind and happy. Satiety gives him a sense of peace and harmony.
Given all the possible changes, we have to admit that diet is a serious matter. Therefore, advice on how to lose extra pounds without psychological loss, will come to you as much as possible by the way.
The main thing is an incentive! To achieve something, you must really want. It is not necessary to go on a diet for a company or, yielding to persuasions - forcedness does not contribute to success and good mood. Try several times to finish the sentence "I really need this to ...". If you have to think over the continuation of a phrase, then, apparently, the time of change has not yet come.
Try not to set a very long time. "I can not eat after six whole year" - from such an installation you can immediately get scared. And if they invite you to a birthday at seven? Sit and spoil all the mood? Set easier tasks. For example, a few days, a week, at most - a month. And there it will be seen.
Tell the cake a decisive ... "sometimes!". Even prescribing medical diets, doctors do not exclude from them certain products completely. Small and rare portions of what are, in general, forbidden, are less harmful than regrets of the forbidden. In dieting for weight loss is the strict limitations are the reason that a person breaks down.
Be an optimistic realist! If nature has awarded you with a broad bone and an excellent appetite, it is not worthwhile to glue an anorexic beauty to the refrigerator for motivation. "Maybe I will not look like a supermodel, but I'll feel better and look more attractive" - that's the right motto of your diet. And, looking in the mirror, constantly find this new confirmation.
Together with the new diet, add to your life some more innovation. But such that it had nothing to do with your appearance! Think of a hobby. Or go in for sports (but for pleasure, but not for the form). This will cause new emotions, drive out thoughts about the diet, make life harmonious.
Enjoy the scents! Spirits, fruits, flowers, food that you have to eat ... The point is that the saturation and smelling centers in the brain are located side by side and exert a great influence on each other. A person who enjoys the smell feels less hungry. Yes, and the mood rises!