Ep 127 - Diets don't work but the statistics don't change anything ...

<p>On today’s episode we are going to be talking about the stats behind why people say diets don’t work but also go into the emotional side of dieting - because even with these groundbreaking stats proving that diets don’t work (and they are actually harmful) - dieting is still a multi billion dollar industry with lifelong returning customers. </p> <p>Facts don’t sway people; emotions and beliefs do. </p> <p>We, as a culture, believe that thinness is better and should always be the goal, that weight loss is about health and to think otherwise is promoting an unhealthy lifestyle and body size.</p> <p>NO amount of statistics showing this isn't true changes anything.</p> <p>Our beliefs and emotions around weight prevent us from taking statistics seriously.</p> <p>Let's dive in and show you what we mean.</p> <p> </p> <p>STAT: 95% of diets fail and most will regain their lost weight in 1-5 years</p> <p>Emotion: Some things that might prevent a person from accepting this fact and using it to decide what to do next (quit dieting), are the time and money already invested in losing weight and the hope that that NEXT diet will work -- and why do we want it to work so badly? Our society treats those in thinner bodies better, we praise people working at losing weight and criticise weight gain and fat bodies.</p> <p>To say that the diets arent going to work is TRUE but it isn’t what people want to hear.</p> <p> STAT: 35% of “occasional dieters” progress into pathological dieting, (disordered eating) and as many as 25%, advance to full-blown eating disorders</p> <p>Emotion: We hold a belief that this would never happen to us, we’re just being balanced, trying to be “healthy”, doing it in a gentle way, we’re not this extreme. But the truth is that it’s a slippery slope. The hope that dieting gives us, blinds us to the many dangers of dieting and reaffirms the messaging that says that pursuing weight loss is going to solve many health issues (when in fact dieting often has little affect on health positively