Weight Loss Secrets — Why Diets Don’t Work

“I’m going on a diet”

Really? (yawn) Again?

We’ve all been there. And we’ve all heard it before.

Diets Don’t Work.

Eating too much food is a big global issue. The amount of diet-related illness in the world, due to over consumption, is increasing massively and the UK is charging ahead with this.

63.4% of the UK population is overweight or obese.

Sixty-three point four percent. That’s a lot.

Almost no-one decides to become overweight or obese. I doubt that many people in the world start each day by planning to extend their burgeoning waistline, or become giddy with excitement about a shopping trip to buy trousers with an extra 2 inches on the waistline.

Despite this upward trend in body size, dieting and wellness is a national obsession. Millions of people bow at the alter of the latest weight loss cult sweeping Instagram, before being drawn back to the fattest freakshake, burge and mac’n’cheese that’s also sweeping Instagram. It’s a revolving door where people binge, then retreat into health, binge, then retreat. If nothing else, it’s compulsive, addictive behaviour, because it has all the hallmarks of lacking control of impulses, or the ability to…