Is your diet easy? It should be.
You are much more likely to stick to an easy diet. Difficult diets that involve hours of meal planning, calorie calculations or complicated food rules are doomed to fail for most people.
There are two problems with difficult diets.
First, they lead to food obsession. This is the situation where a person's whole life revolves around what they can and cannot eat.
This is not a natural or healthy state to be in. The more we think about food, the more we will focus on what we cannot have. That leads to cravings and finally to cheating.
The second problem is that complicated diets are not flexible enough to cope with all the situations that we find ourselves in.
Some diets make it virtually impossible to eat in a restaurant. So what do we do on vacation, or when we have to take a client out to lunch?
That is why it is important to have a diet that introduces more foods and more flexibility into the plan pretty soon.
We may be able to deal with a lot of rules and restrictions for a week or two, but that's about all. After that, the diet needs to be flexible enough to handle a meal with friends, a wedding, a vacation, or whatever life throws at us.
So make sure that your diet is easy, and you will have a lot more success with it.
