A diet is a personal project; it’s not a public project.
There are three taboo subjects: politics, religion and … diets!
Believing in something or in certain ideas is a personal matter, so make allowances for those who want to encourage or discourage you.
The best thing to do is to ignore everything they say and avoid subjects that anger you.
Here are the main comments you’ll inevitably hear:
- “Yes, but if you go off the diet, you’ll regain all the pounds you lost!” Thanks for telling me, but a diet is not a vaccine against weight gain.
- “I know someone who went on that diet and they regained all the weight!” So what? I know lots of people who went on the diet and who never regained an ounce. Neither of these statements means a thing. The outcome is not because of, or thanks to, the diet. The reason for the weight gain has nothing to do with the diet and everything to do with what goes on in a dieter’s life. An eating disorder generally signals deeper problems.
- “If you drop the pounds quickly, you’ll regain the weight even faster!” Honestly, you have to be naïve to think that if you lose weight slowly you’ll regain it slowly. That is so wrong. If you revert to your old eating habits, you’ll put back on the weight. What’s illogical about that?
If someone has the secret for the definitive diet, have him or her give it to you or write it down immediately.
We’d all save some time then, wouldn’t we?
- “That’s a totally unbalanced diet.” Well, yes it is, isn’t it! If it was balanced you wouldn’t lose any weight. Balance means that nothing changes!
- “Your diet is strange. Fruit doesn’t make you gain weight.” I never said that fruit makes you gain weight. I merely said that in many cases, fruit prevents weight loss and that’s not the same thing.
- “Go ahead and have some. For once you won’t be getting fatter.” If you have a diet slip-up, you won’t gain weight, but weight loss will effectively be stopped for two to three days. It’s up to you to.
- “Stop dieting, you look just fine the way you are.” You’ll be the one who decides if you look just fine the way you are and no one else.