6 Week Body Makeover - The Reason Diets Don't Work

By Rico Kidd

You started your diet; you lose a few pounds and felt elated. After awhile you start to cheat on your diet and end up gaining more weight than when you started. Does this sound familiar? Most people who try the 6 Week Body Makeover go through this phase. However, the people that go through the "cheating" phase and continue their diet will persevere and lose more weight.

You can lose weight on the Michael Thurmond diet. The truth is, as long as you stick to the meal plans and body sculpting makeover, you will lose weight. You will start gaining weight when you divert from the plan and start adding foods to your diet that do not fit your body type. The reason why you gained weight in the first place is because you were eating the wrong foods. Once you start introducing these foods back into your diet, you will gain all the weight back and lose all the progress (weight loss) that you work so hard to achieve.

Here's how the diet works: take the body blue print to determine your body type, plan meals based on your body blue print, plan a body sculpting plan to shape problem areas, execute plan and stick with it for 6 weeks. It's very simple and easy to follow. The only way you wouldn't lose weight on this diet is by not following it or diverting from the foods that you're eating.

Here are some mistakes the people are doing. They end up putting off the diet for awhile or start the diet, find it too restrictive and start eating foods that are not on their meal plan. The other thing is that people will start off well for the first two weeks and then they go to a restaurant and order something fatty and delicious. Once they try fried foods again, it is easy to start cheating on your diet and they go on feeding frenzies. After this happens, they despair because they start gaining weight and want to give up as they think it's impossible to start the program over.

After the weight gain, the people blame the diet for gaining all the weight back as they say the diet is "too bland" or "too strict". It's called a DIET for a reason! The purpose is to lose weight and to eat healthy. Of course you're not supposed to eat ice cream and fried chicken (the point is to lose weight, remember?). However, healthy food doesn't have to be bland food. Just prepare differently! Stick to the program and you will definitely lose weight, however, once you start diverting from the program you will gain the weight back.

There are ways to wean yourself off fatty foods. First, start cooking more often at home and stop eating out as much. This way you can control portion size and what type of foods you're eating. Also, cook with less oil and start cooking with more water and soup broth. Start adding half the salt to all of your meals and slowly wean yourself off of salt. The food will taste bland without spices so you can add peppers and other low sodium alternatives. - 17269

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