You are listening to Weight Loss Made Real, and this is episode 23.

Why we all love Diet so much and what the real answer to weight loss is.

I'm your host, Master Weight Loss Coach, and author Cookie Rosenblum.

Welcome back. I'm so happy with me today for another coaching session. Let's get started.

So first let's talk about what diets are because America and the rest of the world

seems to be totally in love with dieting. So diets are when someone or something outside of

ourselves tells us what and how to eat, how much to eat, how it should be

prepared, and it's a prescription. It's a prescription of how to eat. But diets, on a ranking of

of external things and internal things are really very external.

They're a solution to a problem that's internal and they are external.

So this is partly why diets don't work well.

They're not really getting at a cause of a problem.

Diets say do this, eat that, don't eat this, and you'll get this result.

Now if this worked, you'd only need one diet, right?

You'd only need one book or one plan. So it's not that what you eat doesn't count, it does,

but it's really also a lot of why you eat and why you stop or why you don't stop eating when your

bodies had enough. Diets that external prescription of what and how much to eat

don't at all get at the cause of overeating.

So diets help you deal with the symptom and the symptom of your problem is extra weight on your body.

You try to get rid of that extra weight by changing how you eat, right?

You try to change how you act and get rid of the extra weight. But if you remember back in

episode 7 where we talked about how our thoughts lead us to take the actions we take and give us the results that we get?

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