Natural Fast Weight Loss

Failing a diet does not mean we will never lose weight. It may sound obvious, but I bet that this is the first thought that many people have when they gradually find out that their efforts are not paying off. The failure of a diet (and by diet I do not mean one of those DYI diets that you find in women’s magazines), on the contrary, is a great chance to analyze what mistakes were made and do it better the next time.
Sometimes a weight loss diet fails because it’s not the right one for that particular individual. Yet, more often than not, fast weight loss diets fail because of lack of confidence, and plenty of fear of not succeeding and of making mistakes. But making mistakes does not mean failing. The cause of this fear is probably in a perfectionist and result-oriented culture where lack of success brings negative judgments with it.
Mistakes are not a sign of lack of skill, will nor strength. They are rather a sign of lack of knowledge of ourselves and the world. Mistakes are a chance to gain knowledge, so the best attitude when we fail a diet, is to ask ourselves what the lesson learnt is, rather than punishing ourselves.
A diet is not an exam, it is an experience, which is a word (I bet you never noticed, I hadn’t noticed myself until a few weeks ago), that shares the same root with experiment. Think of a lab experiment, it is a trial and error thing, the researcher already knows there will be failures, it is just part of the game. A fast weight loss diet plan (and indeed any experience we go through in our life) should be like this: open to mistakes and corrections.
Here’s a list of reasons why a weight loss diet plan that goes wrong may be seen as a personal failure:
Too much focus on results. Our fast weight loss diets become an exam because we introduce the concept of failure. What we really care about is losing weight, in other words, we only look at what is happening outside our body, whereas the inside remains completely neglected. But a good looking exterior, and an unhappy spirit are not a good combination at all, as it is either not possible (lack of satisfaction usually generated fat), or doable but unhealthy.
Too accurate expectations: we want to lose 7 KG, not one more, not one less. The problem is, our body may not agree with that. We need to give it some time and be flexible, if we want to carry on a healthy fast weight loss diet
Too fast in judging ourselves: you finally gave up and had that cheeseburger. Instead of asking ourselves “why?” we become aggressively judgmental: what should we expect? After all we lack of will power. The only thing that can happen is gaining weight…
Easy generalizations: if a diet fails, any diet will fail. There’s simply no weight loss plan that works for us, so we’ll never ever lose weight.
All this is NOT true: what if this is not the right moment? The first try is almost never a success, there is really no secret here, only learning from our mistakes.