| Almost everybody you know is a diet or has been on a diet. That means pretty much everyone you know weighs too much. Everyone automatically goes on a diet as the only way they know to weigh less. Did you ever think about why people go on diets as opposed to other ways of weighing less? The reason they do is because you can buy a book that tells you what to do or go to a meeting where other people tell you what to do. You don’t have to think about anything. All you have to do is follow the instructions you’re given and you can weigh less. Wow, what a deal! All you have to do is do what you’re told. Doesn’t that sound really simple? Then why can’t you do it? You have the written instructions in your hand. You can read and you understand them just fine. Then why don’t you permanently weigh what you want to weigh? People go on diets because they don’t want to face the real problem. They know that diets are never going to enable them to permanently weigh less but they try to follow them anyway. Dieting doesn’t require you to think. Dieting doesn’t require asking yourself why you let yourself weigh 30 pounds more than you wanted to weigh. Dieting doesn’t make you think about all those times that you knew you shouldn’t put all that food in your mouth but you felt you just had to do it. Dieting doesn’t involve any thoughts that you regard as unpleasant. The other good part is that your friends all weigh too much and they can go through dieting with you. It kind of becomes a group sport. The fact that dieting is only a temporary sport that will do you absolutely no good in the long run is kind of something that you accept. You don’t even want to think about that. It’s too unpleasant. You’re just content going along the same way you have been doing your entire life. You weigh 30 pounds too much, so you “lose” 10 or 15 pounds and feel really great. Then, of course, as might follows day, you “go off” the diet and presto, you weigh 30 pounds too much again. Was the fact you “gained back” the 30 pounds really a big surprise? Of course not. You knew you would gain back whatever weight you “lost.” Your friends also knew they would regain whatever pounds they temporarily “lost.” And, of course, they did. You are all back where you started. Why did you even bother? One reason is the advertising the promoters of diets use. They show television ads of people who they say have “lost” lots of weight on their diet. But if you look very carefully at the bottom of the screen the words “Results Not Typical” flash for a second or two. Of course they are not typical, if those “weight losses” really exist. Do you know any of the people featured on the ads? Do any of your friends? It would be interesting to talk to one of them up close and personal to get their version. This experience is continued on the THIRTY – THIRD DAILY EXPERIENCE |
