Assessing A Diet Program - 3 MUST-ASK QUESTIONS

How would you like to know if the diet program you are looking at is actually capable of helping you achieve the lasting weight control you REALLY want? That would be GREAT, wouldn’t it! This article provides the exact guidance that you need.

Remember, you can only go as far as your mentor can take you. So… your mentor has to be capable of much more than providing a diet for you. Do you remember the 95% weight regain statistic at five-year follow-up? The jury is in; diets, even “lifestyle changes” have proven to fall far short of the desired outcome!

1) What is the DEPTH OF PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE?

Anyone possessing true weight control expertise will have experienced “trial by fire”. Ask your prospective coach when shopping programs, “How many people have you personally worked with - in the ‘trenches’ - you, as the coach?” If the answer is not “thousands”, move on. This is either someone who is working from an “ivory tower”, someone who is dabbling in weight control, or someone who does not possess the experience necessary to help you lose weight and keep it off.

If this test is passed, go on to the next set of criteria. You are looking for the nature of the weight loss counseling.

2) Is the weight loss program ONE-SIZE-FITS-ALL?

The typical mentor / client relationship is one in which the diet coach teaches the dieter the same nutrition program that the last 500 patrons were taught. While the diet program may appear plausible on paper, the plethora of “one-size-fits-all” weight loss approaches has a deplorable track record!

Diet companies, weight loss experts (there’s an oxymoron for you!) and well-credentialed diet authors are all notorious for providing “one-size-fits-all” recommendations. In other words, you will be taught exactly what the last 500 dieters were taught!

Are the issues giving rise to your weight issue exactly the same as the issues at cause for the last 500 people who came through the weight loss program’s door? Of course not!

Don’t hesitate to ask, “Will you take into account my idiosyncrasies or will you work with me in the same manner you’ve worked with everyone else?” The truth is that the issues causing obesity for some people are based in off-target nutrition. The causal issues for others have to do with the psychology of weight control. Still other causal issues stem from deep-seated psychological issues from childhood. For most, a combination of the first two, and sometimes all three, is at work. The program should demonstrate the ability to work with all of these potentialities with a VERY eloquent, well thought through response to this question!

3) Is the mentor / client relationship EMPOWERING OR DISEMPOWERING?

The mentor / client relationship in the typical weight loss program is one in which the “mentor” tells the client what should be done. Then, the “mentor” focuses on what the client does wrong (where performance failed to meet the one-size-fits-all diet prescription - i.e., where the diet was broken), and the client’s experience is one of constantly failing to “get it right”. Typically, the client eventually gets frustrated with a “failure to get it right” and quits. Sound familiar?

True weight loss counseling, or, more accurately, weight CONTROL counseling is one of teaching the principles that govern health and weight control in a general, then facilitating the client’s discovery of the nuances of how he or she interfaces with these principles. The focus is on what IS working, and empowering the client to do more of that.

Unfortunately, looking for a weight control program with satisfactory answer to the above three questions is like looking for a needle in a haystack. The diet industry in general is notorious for NOT helping its patrons generate lasting weight loss results. Find the right mentor; you will be better off keeping your money in your pocket than spending it on one of the thousands of faulty “diet” or “weight loss” programs.

That’s the way it looks from here at The Castle…

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