14 DAY TRIAL // Fad diets have always been subject to much debate, and this is certainly not about to change now. Whether they truly work or not sometimes depends entirely on the person who tries them and generalizing their efficiency is, in this sense, redundant, it has often been said. Nevertheless, in the long run, fad diets are not recommended, which is precisely why anti-diet diet books have started to gain in popularity, as FitSugar informs.
Contrary to what one might believe, anti-diet diet books do not advocate the gratification of every whim. Neither do they give free rein to supermarket food, which is, as countless authors have pointed out, not real food, but only “food-like substances.” Instead, these books urge wannabe dieters to operate a lasting change in their life, something that would still return the same results in three or five years’ time as it did at first. This is, clearly, something that fad diets cannot guarantee.
Changing our eating habits is essential to losing weight, the new wave of diet books is telling us. Consequently, changing our attitude towards food is also of vital importance when it comes to dropping the pounds, because seeking refuge and comfort in food is one of the main causes behind weight gain and not being able to stick to a particular diet. Basically, what these new books are saying is that slimmers must break the guilt cycle that makes of them chronic dieters because only this way they will be able to successfully lose weight and stay healthy.
The same idea is also promoted in Pavel Somov’s latest book, “Eating the Moment,” where the importance of enjoying food and the meal as such is highly emphasized. Eating should not be done in a hurry, let alone because we need to satisfy an emotional urge, the author says. Eating should be done because we need to eat to stay healthy and, last but not least, because it is an enjoyable activity – one of life’s little pleasures, as they say.
This is why creating an “eating space” is important, Somov says in the book, as well as eliminating all other distractions. Once this is taken care of, we will be able to stay in shape and even lose weight without going on a restricting – and possibly not healthy – diet.