Change is always difficult.  Starting a new diet is no different. The most important thing to remember is that you do not want to simply make a short-term change.  You want to adopt new eating strategies that you can continue to maintain the rest of your life.  Change is hard so do it right the first time and then never again.

If you need to lose weight, obviously, your current eating habits are poor.  If you simply adopt a new diet to achieve a short-term weight loss goal you will be disappointed.  You may indeed lose weight with the new diet. Following the conclusion of your diet, however, you will simply revert back to the same eatting strategies you had prior to the diet. This will result in you gaining back all your weight ,and possibly even more, than you had prior to the diet.

What you need to do is make small modifications to your diet that will be sustainable for a lifetime.  Simple strategies to employ that can have tremendous impact are as follows: eating six times per day, controlling portion size, avoiding sodas, avoiding eating out more than one time per week, avoiding processed foods as much as possible, and eating more fruits and vegetables.

You need to stop the dieting rollercoaster and adopt long term, permanent eatting patterns.  In the next several blogs, I will expound further on the above simple stratagies. I will explain how to easily incorporate these into your liestyle. I will also explain why they are important and effective.