The Truth About Diets

As a young female it's hard not to feel personally victimised no matter what size you are at that point to be ultra slim and 'beach body ready'. Constantly told what we should and shouldn't be eating and when and how much of it. It's as if our freedom to eat what we like when we like has been totally snatched out of our hands and dieting should be a way of life no matter how miserable it makes us. That if we so much as sniff a chocolate bar we are the unhealthy ones who are in the wrong.

For someone who is pretty slim and looking at it now should never really even consider going on a diet I own up to trying out diets even though no matter how unsuccessful the last one went i would still find motivation to seek out another way. I didn't realise that if the ones I've already tried have been very short lived and it would be a miracle for them to last more than two days then why would another diet depriving me from some kind of nutrition be any more successful? I really didn't see how it would last in the long run and depriving me of all treats i love only made me miserable and grumpy which only makes it more unnecessary. I never really came to the realisation that none of these 'diets' is really going to be a lifestyle and a way of living because i was constantly feeling malnurited, dizzy and had a lack of energy. Is all of that really worth being skinny for? No, not on any sort of level. Life is for living, making friendships, accomplishing goals and taking in new experiences not for obsessing over our body size to fit into society. Life is so much more than what we look like or how much we weigh and we should all appreciate that.

It is also proven that diets do not work in any circumstances in fact in the long run they make you put on weight because your body is feeding itself because it doesn't know the next time it will be fed due to the yoyo dieting. Diets all end in the same cycle go on a diet, feel deprived which leads to binge eating and the cycle goes on again and again. You have to think about the long run and what will be best for your health in the long run. Forget about diets and having the 'perfect' body think about your health, strength and ability to complete tasks. Think about what is actually going into your body not about how many calories it contains. So as well as making you feel miserable diets are proven to actually make you gain weight by having such an unhealthy relationship with food. You will find that the more you focus on diets and what you are eating you end up becoming obsessed with food which can only end one way and that is one massive binge on foods that really aren't good for you.

Diets can also end in a much more dangerous situation and that is an eating disorder whether that is anorexia, bulimia or binge eating disorder etc. The best way to avoid any of this is just to eat in a satisfying way which means no restriction, no cutting out any groups of food, if you want a chocolate bar then eat that dam chocolate bar it isn't going to kill you. Do not ever feel the need to diet, yes choose healthier alternatives and eat a balanced diet but no not starve yourself or restrict foods you love.

Restricting what I ate led me to binge eat and it started happening so frequently that i binge ate and still do out of habit, nothing has to cause it but it just happens. I feel an urge to eat anything bad and sugary and at that moment it does feel good because it's an addiction, sugar is addictive. But in the long run it gets me down that i still haven't got the control i want i can have a good day of eating lots and still feel an urge to binge eat because it has now come as a habit and i'm so used to having that urge. But the guilt i feel afterwards is so not worth it but i only realise that until it's too late which stresses me even more. I wouldn't wish that relationship on food to my worst enemy and to think it could've all been stopped if i didn't get allured into dieting in the first place.

Everyone but especially young females are victims of a society that pressures us into being what society would deem as being attractive or admirable and it's hard to go against this however nothing is worth more than your own happiness. If that means being bigger or looking different to what society would expect then so be it. Happiness, chocolate, all things indulgent are worth a lot more than restriction. I am not saying get fat but what i am saying is eat what you want and have a healthy relationship with food. It's something we all should think about but the one most important point i want you to take from this post is don't diet or restrict yourself in the first place. There are so many other pleasures of life we can indulge in, not just food.