Our behaviour is dictated by the habits we have formed and continually form throughout our life. Changing ingrained habits can be very hard and some people find it easier than others. Most people when they go on a food diet think that they have to break habits that are associated with food. For example, not eating biscuits with your cup of tea, or not eating a bar of chocolate while you’re watching television. The problem with this is that you are fixating on the food that you are not allowing yourself to have. This leads to cravings for the ‘forbidden’ food.
The Habitweb
Instead of focusing on food the nodietdietway tackles the ‘distal habits’ that keep your bad habits in place.
Habits do not exist in isolation. What might seem to you as one bad habit, for example, eating biscuits while watching the television, is actually kept in place by lots of other habits. This interconnected pattern of habits is what we will call your habitweb. The habitweb consists of lots of habits. Some of these are obviously linked to eating and lack of exercise, (these are called ‘proximal habits’) but many other hidden habits play an even more important role in keeping a person fat. These are the ‘distal habits’. Therefore, in order to lose weight you have to break the habitweb connections between these hidden habits and the obvious ones to do with eating. The nodietdietway does this in a systematic and scientifically controlled way. This is why most of the tasks you will be asked to complete will appear to be unrelated to weight loss. It is these distal behaviours that are designed to break down your habitweb and free you from the unconscious chains of habitual eating.
The habitweb itself is remarkably strong. That is why addictions such as eating, caffeine, smoking and gambling are also so difficult to break free of. That is why – despite being so motivated – food diets are bound to fail in the longer term. Unless the whole habitweb is tackled, the dieter will fail. The nodietdietway systematically tackles the whole habitweb, assuring success.
Ready? Then 'Do Something Different'!
This is why the nodietdietway asks you to 'Do Something Different' everyday so you can begin breaking down the habits that appear to be unrelated to your weight loss. Eventually, you will breakdown all the habits that are keeping you overweight and prevent you from achieving permanent weight loss.