If Diet Means Don’t Eat to You, Don’t Diet!

Diets just won't go away. A perennial new year's resolution, a guaranteed way to make money and a perpetual source of hope - dieting will remain a constant in our continually changing world as long as diet means don't eat.

The only alternative is to eat! That's right, if you don't like the way it feels to be on a diet and want a way to abandon all diet plans and the diet foods that go with them forever, you must decide to eat instead.

Sound too good to be true? Let me explain.

Eating is about choosing foods that nourish your body. If done properly you can prevent most chronic diseases. And if you can prevent heart disease, hypertension, diabetes and many forms of cancer you won't need special diets to treat them later in life.

Conversely, if you don't eat to nourish yourself throughout your life you will need to go on a diet at some point to fix the damage. That's when diets are prescribed to reduce fat, sodium and sugar and control calories, serving sizes and snacks.

The end result may be the same at this point - whether eating or dieting - but the attitude is not. Eating gives you the freedom to choose what you eat. Dieting gives you the rules about what you cannot eat. Even if you follow the same rules, by choosing them you defeat the need for a diet.

Why not begin eating today to nourish yourself and abandon diets forever? No matter what your weight or medical condition, it is simply a change of attitude. But that change in attitude may help you succeed where all diets have failed.