How difficult is it to lose weight and dieting? The average difficulty rating is around 8. This is an anecdotal, unscientific estimate. If you’ve failed at any diets in the past, and you are now looking forward to your next attempt at weight loss with anxiety, it’s likely that you have high self-rated dieting difficulties. Unfortunately, diets force you to eat certain foods and in ways that are not your normal. You will probably eat less than you are used to.
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If you don’t do this right, you will feel hungry, grouchy, and miserable. You will need to change your routines, if not your habits, if you want to lose weight. Add it all up and you will see that dieting can cause a lot of stress, which can lead to a high difficulty rating. A good way to reduce stress and get your difficulty rating down to a 3 to 4 or lower is to use the Power of 2. Find a good buddy to help you diet.
Depending on your preferences in “how to diet”, especially if you are socially inclined, finding a buddy, or even a group could be the foundation of your success. Your personal missing link to success in weight loss. Even if you aren’t the most social person, it’s worth giving the Power of 2 buddy idea a shot. If done correctly, the Power of 2 in diet will bring you exponential success.
What to do?
- Pay attention to what you enjoy doing. You will discover your natural, inborn preferences, strengths, traits and characteristics. Find out how to use your preferred behavior style in conjunction with or in support of your diet, regardless of what it is.
- Your buddy should be able to understand and support your dieting behavior preferences.
- Learn about your friend’s personality traits and preferences. They might be very similar to yours, or they may be completely different.
- You must ensure that you are able to support your friend’s diet and behavioral preferences.
- Discuss with your buddy in advance how you will help and support one another. It will take some time to find the right way to do this in practice. It will take some trial and error, as well as some testing. It will take some trial and error, but if you can come to an agreement about how you can support and help each other, it will make it easier to reduce your dieting difficulty and help you to lose weight faster.
Take Your Time
Let’s say that you are a person who is able to do everything quickly, are socially oriented and creative, and enjoy adventure, fun, and spontaneity. You are not a fan of routine, structure, or boredom. You are also impatient and want quick results. It is obvious that any diet that is highly structured will be difficult for you. But that doesn’t mean it’s impossible. It’s quite the opposite. A well-structured diet can make you successful. You can make any diet work if you consider your natural characteristics, preferences, and traits.
Let’s say you find a dieting friend with similar traits and characteristics to you. You can support and encourage each other to be creative, have fun with your dieting, and challenge each to find new ways to add spontaneity and flexibility to your diet. You might even find a dieting buddy who is completely different. Let’s say someone who is patient, has a love for structure and rules, is detail-oriented, and enjoys stability and consistency. You will encourage her to stick with the diet even if it is difficult for her.
Conclusion
You’ll show your daughter how to have some fun while on the diet. She’ll show you how to have fun with it and help you realize that you can achieve quick results but not “quick” in reality. She will show patience to you. She will help you stick to your diet plan if you feel it’s becoming too restrictive. You’ll find a way to vent your frustrations and anger when you feel bored. It can be disastrous to find a random buddy for dieting if you don’t understand and share your traits, characteristics, and preferences in dieting. It’s difficult to support and help each other in constructive and positive ways if you don’t know how you should approach dieting. It can easily increase your difficulty in dieting.