Why diets don´t work long term

1. Our body is adaptable

It adjusts to the enviroment / conditions that it is in, and it adjusts in a way to survive.

Therefore diets often just get your body into a state of being in whitch it preserves itself. Slowing down your metabolism and in general it often just pushes our body into starecity mode. Therefore it starts storing everything. It starts getting rid of muscle, because muscle needs a lot of energy (food) to be maintained, but since the body recognizes, that it´ s not getting the energy it needs, it starts getting rid of all, that is unnecesary and therefore muscle goes first. All of whitch starts working against you. A slow metabolism, muscle loss, lack of energy etc. This negatively affects the hormones as well, which also impacts the over all state of our body, causing the diets to work against us.

2. Diets are not designd for the felame body

The cycle of the female body isn´ t a 24 hour one, as is the male body. It´ s a 28 day one. In each part of the cycle the body goes through different processes and therefore needs different amounts of energy (food), in each phase, to function optimaly. Therefore being on a diet (eating the same amout of food every day) doesnt workwith the needs of our body. This once again gets the body into stress and therefore it holds onto weight.

3. People focus on calories in - calories out, without realizing, that not all calories are the same.

Ultra procesed food reacts differently in our body than whole foods do.

Highly procesed foods, that are full of artificial sweetners, negatively impact the gut micro biome, which then impacts the whole function of the body and that affecs weight as well.

4. When on diets, people usually don´ t address the root cause of the problem (overeating/weight gain) which is often a mental/emotional problem (trauma)

Highly processed foods react in our body in a similar way as any addictive substance. Therefore people treat it as such. 

They use it as a way to deal with unresolved trauma, unprosesed emotions, feelings of unhappines, unsafety etc. Therefore it´ s important to focus on healing the root cause of the issue as well, in order to internaly regulate the body, which then causes natural weight loss.