Are We Getting Overkill on the Diets?

My emphatic response to this would be a definite yes. The confusion that can come with information overload is with us. Everyone who is anyone is coming up with a new diet almost on a daily basis. It seems that no celebrity is worth their salt until they have shared with us their intimate secrets to losing weight. There are many business people who have made diets their bread and butter to the extent that they will not tolerate any kind of competition or interference lest it affects their bread and butter. The diet industry has just become too big to control yet it has increased its clasps on the people that work within it. There is now a facility to hold people to ransom on the diet ensuring that they cannot be allowed to leave the program. They have direct debits set up and meetings to attend.

Some poor dieters get into all sorts of problems when they join multiple diets and end up having to spend all their precious time juggling from one to another. The schedules start clashing and the family priorities are disorganized just because you really want to get that ideal weight or loss a bit of fat. What I find amazing is the level of belief that people have in their own particular diet no matter what the statistics say. People will say that a diet works when all research has shown that it doesn’t. They are so good that they will even begin to convince people who might have stood on the sidelines so that they too join the bandwagon and start getting involved in the diet. The majority of all those diets do not work and it is a great challenge to try and work out the genuine ones from the scams. It takes a whole new level of commitment and investigative skills to achieve this feat of working out when people are telling your porkpies.

Sometimes you need to have principles and stand by them. You need to be able to push back on certain diets and just say no. You also need to recognize that there are people who are just born being overweight. No matter what they do this problem will stay with them for a large part of their lives. It is no good driving you mad about something that is natural. All you are achieving is making yourself miserable and reducing the quality of the life that you have left on earth.