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How many times have you tried a new diet program hoping to lose weight fast only to end up in frustration and failure? Did you know that over 90% of people actually gain weight within 6 months of dieting! Here are the top 10 reasons why:

1. Diets focus all your attention on food and eating, which is what you actually want to stop thinking about. What you focus on expands so focusing on food is counterproductive when you want to lose weight.

2. Diets create stress and stress creates a compulsion to eat.

3. Diets fail to address the real problems: your self-esteem and your reliance on food to change your emotions.

4. Dieting can result in mood swings and depression which make it harder for you to lose weight. Depression can actually lead to weight gain.

5. Diets put you in starvation mode. When you severely restrict your food intake it signals your body that food is scarce. Your body is designed to protect you against the possibility starvation by storing fat when food becomes unavailable.

6. Diets lower your metabolism. When you limit your caloric intake, your metabolism slows down and burns less calories. Dieting actually makes your body more efficient at conserving calories and storing them up as fat.

7. Diets judge their success by the number of pounds lost instead by the true objectives: increased energy, feeling good about yourself, and looking good in your clothes again.

8. Diets are temporary. When you reach your goal on a diet you stop and then return your your normal eating habits so the weight eventually comes back.

9. Diet sodas increase your appetite. They contain phosphoric acid which increase your appetite and leaches calcium from your bones. They may also contain aspartame which drains your energy, your strength, and your stamina.

10. Diets change your short term eating habits without changing your long term mindset about food. Your thoughts create your actions, so if you still have the same thoughts and feelings about food eventually you will return to the same eating behaviors. To create long term, permanent changes in your body you must start with changes in your mind and feelings about the food.

Every day is your new opportunity to do something good for yourself and those around you, and it all starts with your commitment to your good health.

If youre feeling that your energy is low and its an effort just to get out of the house, how can you hope to create the kinds of opportunities and relationships in your life that you desire?

When your body is humming like a finely tuned machine then you bypass lifes little problems without slowing down. They dont even seem to matter anymore. You feel like youre King of the World because, in your own life, you are!

Take a moment and take a deep breath now.

And for a moment, just, be honest with yourself

* Are you feeling healthy?

* Are you free of illness?

* Well rested?

* Well nourished?

* Do you feel filled with energy and vitality?

* Can you stay healthy when those around you are getting sick?

If yes, then you know that good health is a daily commitment that you make to yourself; to keep you in a positive frame of mind, to eat well, to move your body more, to be better than you were yesterday.

Are you willing to take the steps that are necessary to improve your health so you can improve your life and live your dreams?

If the answer is yes, then heres something simple you can do today to improve your health and make you more fit than you were yesterday:

Today make your commitment to yourself that you will drink only water.