[excerpt] You started every dieting method you can think of—whether it’s drinking weight loss shakes, eating nothing but grapefruit, or avoiding carbohydrates—only to find yourself back to your old habits in a few weeks. Maybe you bought weights, an exercise bike or a treadmill, only to find them in a corner collecting dust or piles of laundry months later. And even if you do follow these diet and exercise plans’ special techniques to help you ditch those extra pounds, their results don’t seem to last very long. Sometimes you even end up gaining weight instead of losing it. So why do these diet plans always seem to fail?
According to Naweko San-Joyz, author of Skinny Fat Chicks (Noixia’s Reading Circle, 2005), it may not be the diet that’s the problem—it might be you. “Women diet to lose weight fast,” says San-Joyz. “When this does not happen, or the weight returns, the diet takes the blame. In truth, it is not the fault of the diet, but the misunderstanding of the woman that causes dieting failures.”
Women, San-Joyz believes, should view dieting as an education about their bodies and how they function. Unfortunately, most women choose to avoid healthy eating and exercise techniques in exchange for promises of quick results and drastic physical changes. This lack of knowledge and continual inability to find a sensible weight loss plan creates what San-Joyz terms “skinny fat chicks,” or women who damage their health with flawed dieting and exercise methods.
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