Why diet?

Dieting is hard! period. I hate being hungry all the time, it's no fun. But the first part is the worst part and that's the thing to remember.

The first stage of many of today's popular diets are the hardest. The basic idea in the first few weeks is to shock your system into accepting a major change in your eating plan.

Once you move through that first stage you go through a middle stage of further adjustment. Eventually you wind up on a permanent healthy eating plan that you remain committed to. It is at this stage that the diet no longer seems like a diet.

It's easy to stay on the healthy eating plan because you look and feel better. You won't worry so much about falling off a wagon because there won't really be one to fall off of. That's the way I see it anyway.