Jim Katsoulis argues that all-or-nothing diets fail because they feel too hard. Instead, make ridiculously small changes to eating habits one at a time, stacking them gradually until the new lifestyle feels effortless and natural.
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The secret to losing weight and keeping it off is to make it easy. Now, hear me out. If you think about every diet or workout plan that you know of, basically the idea is that that Monday is going to come, you're going to start that plan and you basically jump into it 100%. All of a sudden you're changing all of your eating and you're getting yourself to go work out all the time when you weren't before. And it's really hard to do those things. It's hard for your body and it's hard for your mind to keep track of all those things. And so when we think about weight loss at this point, we tend to think of it as being hard, difficult, painful, unpleasant. And so we don't want to do it. We're conflicted. Yes. Yes, we want to lose the weight, but we don't want to do the things we need to do to lose the weight. So what's the alternative? Because there is an alternative. The alternative is that you start slowly, you reduce to the ridiculous, and you start making your eating better in little tiny increments that are easy to do. You start adding new habits into your life, but it's a completely different mindset. It's a more slow approach, which no one likes, but it works, where you are building it up slowly, strategically, to develop a lifestyle and a way of being, thinking, feeling that allows you to live at the weight you want to live at.
