how diets hypnotize you to be overweight

Three ways that diets have hypnotized you to be overweight. Number one, diets base their motivation on how you look. If you think of every weight loss ad you've seen in your life, it's almost always a before and after picture. So when you try and motivate yourself, you try and motivate yourself by wanting to look better. But that's an extrinsic motivator, which is the weakest form of motivation. Number two, diets cause you to think about weight loss in a short term timeframe. So most people, when they start a diet, just want to lose the weight as fast as possible. But the truth is, you don't want to lose weight. You want to lose the weight and then live at your goal weight for the rest of your life. And the two strategies are completely different. And number number three, diets cause you to think in an all or nothing mindset, so that when you make a mistake, it feels like you totally blew it. But the truth is, when you want to master an area of your life, you have got to make mistakes and then learn from them. But most people approach weight loss as if it's a sprint, and the second they make a mistake, they feel like they've lost the race and they quit. You need to recognize that your weight mastery is a marathon and you're able to make mistakes as long as you learn from them. So as soon as you wake up from these three trances, weight loss becomes much, much easier.