What's Your Diet Personality?

If you've tried diets before and failed, you need to understand what you may be doing wrong before you can hope to be successful.

The most common diet personality flaws.

* Ms. Quick Fix. There's the quick-fix mentality that you have to get there really quickly for it to be successful.You might think you have to lose a lot of weight in a hurry, you have to do everything perfectly, you have to do everything structured," which often leads to a diet derailment.


* Mr. I Don't Need to Exercise. One of the things that really trips people up is the 'I can do it with diet and not exercise' mentality. Making moderate activity be part of your life. No ifs, ands, or buts. It requires being active to make the diet work over the long term. It also helps moderate hunger and boredom, and helps people stick with it.


* The Biggest Loser. The flip side is the biggest loser mentality — people who start off the first day and exercise to the point of collapse, which explains that behavior is just as damaging to a diet. These dieters over-restrict their calories and then over-exercise, and wind up experiencing burnout. You need good balance in exercise and good balance in nutrition.


* Miss Emotional Eater. This is the person who eats instead of dealing with her feelings. We're so afraid as a society to feel our feelings. When people avoid dealing with emotions, they turn to drugs, alcohol, smoking — and food. Emotional eaters abuse food instead of other substances when they're experiencing emotions they don't know how to deal with.

* Sir I'm Just Hungry All the Time. Sometimes, people just love to eat, and they truly feel hungry all the time. People will have different hunger levels. Physiologically, they will have different hormonal responses.It's hard to diet when you're constantly hungry, so you need to learn the right way to eat.

* Mr. I Don't Have Time to Diet. Some people just feel like they don't have the time to eat healthy food or exercise. And many people truly don't — which is why they have to make time to do it.


source: everydayhealth.com