If you are overweight, you should lose weight for the sake of your body and soul, not for the sake of society and its ideals of beauty. A diet is only successful in the long term if you set realistic goals.
In order for weight loss programmes to attract attention, they often use reports of how a 100kg woman has transformed into a pencil-thin grace within a few weeks. Unfortunately, such indirect promises lead to false hopes and expectations among the overweight. It is not only unhealthy, but also unrealistic that someone can lose so much weight in record time and still feel good.
If you follow a diet with too high expectations, these are inevitably disappointed and the diet is cancelled prematurely out of frustration. The more often a diet fails, the less motivated you will be to lose weight in the future and prefer to surrender to your supposed fate.
Losing weight should be about health first and foremost, and appearance second. Of course, the more you lose weight in a healthy way, the more your appearance will automatically benefit. However, if your original motivation is health, you are much more likely to stick to a diet successfully.
This is not least due to the fact that when losing weight you are careful not to harm your body by suddenly depriving yourself of food, because you want to feel healthy and well.
A diet in which you lose 5 to 101TP3 tonnes of weight per year is healthy and realistic. If someone weighs 90kg, they should not gradually lose more than 9kg in 12 months. Slower weight loss results in greater satisfaction in everyday life and thus better guarantees long-term success. If, on the other hand, you lose too much weight in record time, your body and psyche usually experience symptoms of deficiency, as such weight loss is only possible through drastic measures. In addition to the physical deficiency symptoms, people can only resist their usual cravings for a limited time if they are deprived of them to an extreme. This often leads to relapses and binge eating and ultimately to the failure of the diet.
