We have all tried various kinds of diets from the highly respected to the plain bizarre. There are some people who have genuine problems with weight loss caused by medical conditions. A very slow metabolism can make losing a few pounds a serious chore.

Nature also has a few unpleasant tricks up her sleeve for example different parts of your tongue are receptive to different tastes. Some of the taste buds get excited over sugar; others get excited over sour tastes. In a cruel twist of fate the only taste that stimulates every taste bud on your tongue is fat.

Nature couldn’t have been kind and said that carrots and lettuce would cause most stimulation in your mouth no it had to opt for chocolate cake instead.

So there are a few physical reasons why some people may not be able to lose weight.

But the truth is simply cutting your food intake in half and walking 3 miles a day will mean that after two months you will not own one item of clothing that still fits.

It is that simple, and what’s more everyone knows that this is all that is required to get down to a healthier body and lifestyle.

So why don’t we do it? The reason is that we regard our being overweight and being unable to stick with a diet as the problem.

How can it be the problem? With one or two notable exceptions food is not addictive. There is no reason why we need to over-eat; there is no reason once we have taken in the amount of food we need to sustain as for the day why we should carry on eating.

So why do we continue to eat food if it is not addictive.

The trouble lies in the fact that we have psychological problems associated with food.

Being unable to diet is not the problem.

The problem is that eating gives us comfort and stimulates our brains to give us pleasure.

We have all heard of “comfort eating” and that is exactly what the name suggests. We eat to make ourselves feel comfortable. We eat to make ourselves feel relaxed; we eat to lower our stress levels.

We simply eat to give ourselves comfort, for many people their problems lie in foods from their childhood. Anything that they really enjoyed when they were children will give us a psychological comfort; take us back to the days before mortgages and the car needing a service.

Unfortunately the things we liked as a kid are generally not cabbage and fresh oranges. Childhood favourites tend to be candy bars, sugary fizzy drinks, a big burger and fries.

At times of stress, strain, depression or even when we are extremely happy we revert to our childhood needs we go back to what made us happy and content.

When we have had enough of the latest fad diet we fall off the wagon not because we are bored with the routine but because we psychologically crave the comfort that all this unhealthy food gives us.

To diet successfully we must appreciate why we struggle to not eat things that are bad for us.

We must understand that there are reasons why we crave all these bad foods. If we can understand why we fall off the diet wagon so easily perhaps then we may be able to adjust our mind-set in order to keep those cravings under control.

If you don’t appreciate why you can’t stick to a diet and think it is just because it is “boring” Or you just get “tired of it” you are wrong.

Think about it, and understand why dieting is hard for you and then you will understand how you can deal with the problem to diet successfully. It’s all in the mind!

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