If you're trying to lose weight, the one thing that is most likely to derail your best diet plan is...your family and close friends. Don't believe it? Test it. Go on a diet. Lose a few pounds. Brag a little. And then see what happens. Chances are, you'll find you're the recipient of fattening food gifts. Your spouse may buy you a candy bar at the movies or your co-worker will offer you cookies when the afternoon munchies hit. They aren't doing this to be mean or vindictive. They probably aren't even conscious of it. But what they are doing is sabotaging your weight loss success.
"I've seen it happen so many times to my weight loss patients that when they come in and confess they fell off the wagon, I'm ready with my ritual response: 'Who did this to you?'" Colleen Pierre, a registered dietician and an associate professor of aging, nutrition, and fitness at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md., wrote in an article published by Rodale Press. "They're always shocked to think that someone else may have had a hand in their weight loss failure. Diet saboteurs. They're everywhere." Pierre says that the problem can be defined in one word: Change. A diet creates big changes in anyone's life. These are changes welcomed by the dieter. But friends and family aren't in the same mode of change. Be aware that diet sabotage is not done purposefully and maliciously. It's unconscious.
You can fight the sabotage by understanding why it happens. Pierre offers
these reasons:
--They feel guilty.
--They don't understand.
--They
miss the old you.
What you need to do is get them on your side. Numerous
studies have proven that when your social network of family and friends supports
your diet, it has a positive influence on the results. New York City
nutritionist Shira Isenberg, R.D. told syndicated health columnist Charles
Stuart Platkin that family and friends bring "an increase in self-confidence by
validating the individual's choice to lose weight, a reduction in overall
stress, and increased attention to achieving the overall goal." And they do it
without offering you a cookie.
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