Lose Weight Fast: 3 Reasons That’s Absolutely Not What You Want

A lot of weight-loss diets will promise you that you’ll lose weight fast. Here’s what they don’t tell you: you likely won’t be able to keep the weight off.

The Last Thing You Want Is To Lose Weight Fast

I get the patience is the strong suit of very few people, myself included. Trust me on this though, after over 20 years of yo-yo dieting and losing the weight only to gain it all back again, I can tell you without a doubt that the last thing you want is to lose weight fast only to gain it all back again. There are a myriad of reasons for that, but here are the top three.

Reason 1 Not To Lose Weight Fast

Those lose weight fast diets are likely really unhealthy for you. They are likely all about calorie deficits and making sure you eat the least amount of calories possible. They are not about meeting your body’s nutritional needs. They are not about listening to your body at all. They are all about starving your body to get to an end result. Here’s the problem with aiming for an end result at any cost: if you can’t keep the weight off long-term, then you’re just a hamster on a wheel, working really hard and in the end getting nowhere.

Reason 2 Not To Lose Weight Fast

Gaining the weight back after you stop the diet will likely leave you feeling shamed and humiliated. That’s how I always felt after I regained the weight. I went from socializing and feeling confident when I was more comfortable in my body to gaining the weight back and hiding in my house because I felt like a failure and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn’t keep the weight off.

Reason 3 Not To Lose Weight Fast

You’re not listening to your own self and your own body’s needs. Instead you’re listening to someone else’s rules. That other person or people or corporation, whoever they are, doesn’t know YOU. They don’t know:

• your activity level 
• The foods you like
• The foods you don’t like
• The foods you’re allergic to and/or need to avoid for other medical reasons.
• Any particular issues you have with regards to food and nutritional needs.

All they know is how to drastically cut your caloric intake so that you’ll lose weight fast.

The Goal Is Not To Lose Weight Fast

Here’s the thing: Like I said before, I dieted for over 20 years. All of them worked short-term. To my recollection, I lost weight fast on every single one of them. But that’s not the goal. The goal is to lose the weight long-term and keep it off so you can get busy living the rest of your life and doing the things you want to do.

The Goal Is To Lose Weight Long-Term

You absolutely can lose the weight for the last time, and that, my friends, is what you want.

Do yourself a kindness and stop trying to lose weight fast. Instead, work to lose the weight long-term so you can get off the diet-go-round and get on with your life.

Get off the diet-go-round. Get on with your life.^®

Stop wishing, start doing.
Create your own weight loss before and after success story.

My weight loss transformation & how it can help you lose weight long-term

You absolutely can break the diet cycle. I got free. Your life can be that way too.

I made my own path because I needed to get myself out of the crazy-making behavior I was having around food. I needed:

• no more dieting.
• no more restrictive eating.
• no weighing and measuring food.
• no off-limit foods.
• no more judgment around food.
• no more trying to figure out healthy eating or just what healthy foods to eat.
• no more judging my self-worth based on the scale.
• no more you’re-not-doing-it-perfectly diet rules that were only fueling my constant thinking about and obsession with food.

I needed to stop: searching for weight loss tips, wondering how to lose belly fat fast or how to lose weight fast, worrying about how to eat healthy or finding healthy snacks for weight loss, coming up with yet another healthy eating plan, trying to have quick weight loss, or forcing myself onto yet another weight loss diet. What I needed instead was to find, out of all the weight loss programs out there, the best weight loss program for me. Turns out, the best way to lose weight was to find out what works for me and do that.

• I’ve lost 160+ pounds naturally by simply trusting myself and listening to my intuition (mindful eating and eating intuitively).
• I have maintained that weight loss for 9 years and counting by trusting myself and listening to my intuition (mindful eating and intuitive eating).
• I no longer have any eating disorders, including bulimia (bulimia nervosa) and binge eating disorder (compulsive overeating).
• I no longer have a fear of food.

Just imagine what you could be doing with your life if you’d just commit to having your own before and after weight loss success story. You could be: following your own dreams and reaching your own goals, cultivating your own passions, and making both your inner and outer worlds a more blissful and peaceful place.

I got that for my life. I want it for yours. I will teach you how.

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Let today be the day you make peace with your body and with food.

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