This is The Best Diet to Lose Weight Fast

I love birthday parties. Happy faces, merry times, and my personal favorite, delicious cake. Everyone takes a piece, forking into the butter-cream topping and reaching that oh-so-good fluffy cake center.

They ask you if you want a piece, to which you respond:

“Sorry… but I’m on a diet.”

Instantly the room turns against you and your villainous statement. Certainly, there’s a devil on your shoulder who will ask: “No cake? But one slice wouldn’t hurt — would it?”

Certainly not! So you break your diet (temporarily, we tell ourselves) and will jump back into it after one, maybe two slices of cake. This is the beginning of another failed diet, and while it may seem sensible to blame yourself, it is the diet that has failed you.

95 percent of people fail diets and regain the weight. Why? Because limiting our favorite foods is not sustainable.

Willpower is a finite resource — it’s deeper for others — but eventually you will drive yourself insane or give in. This is why diets have a high failure rate; limiting food options is not a long-term plan.

Instead of committing to a diet, we need to change the way we look at food. This is the best “diet” to lose weight fast.

The Best Diet to Lose Weight Fast: Think Nutrition (Not Diet)

In order to maintain a diet, you must have the discipline of a monk. Like exercise, you may be able to do it at first, but creating a lifelong habit is the real challenge. This is why keeping all food options open is the most sustainable dietary choice. Instead of looking at foods as “good” or “bad” look at food as nutrition.

From a calorie standpoint, a generous slice of yellow cake will have around 200 calories. The same amount in two handfuls of almonds, or two bananas, or low-sugar yogurt. But we know that one slice of cake is nowhere near as nutritious as the aforementioned options.

Unlike those cleaner options, cake is high in sugar and processed ingredients.

Sugar lights up the brain the same way drugs do and is bad for our gut-health. And even if you buy from one of those high-end bakeries, that cake may be full of junk ingredients like vegetable oils (bad for heart health) and Yellow #5 (weird flavor additives that cause cancer).

Calories are a small piece of the puzzle when it comes to good health. Stop stressing over calories and instead look at food as more nutritious and less nutritious.

If you eat for nutrition, the weight will come off fast and this time you will be able to sustain it.