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Weight Loss: My holiday wishes

Recently, I was asked to be something called a “Health Maven” for Wellsphere.com, a website dedicated to providing health and wellness information to the public. I was asked to join the weight loss community and respond to questions that readers of the site submit about weight loss.

It’s been a much harder job than I imagined, because the questions I am asked to respond to are often not about the topics that I believe contribute to success with weight loss and a healthy relationship with food.

In my new role as “weight loss expert”, I’ve been asked question after question about topics such as which diet is best, about the lemonade diet, about sugar blockers, and about when the best TIME is to eat. It’s been a jolting reminder that one of the reasons so many people struggle with weight loss is that they are trying to apply solutions that don’t work or that are at best incomplete.

I’ve been so busy working with my clients to help them create weight loss that lasts and writing about how to end emotional eating and yoyo dieting and get off the diet rollercoaster, that I temporarily forgot how most of the world is asking completely different questions. Unfortunately, far too many people still equate losing weight with dieting. The articles about the newest diets and the resulting questions about which diet “is best” often lead people on a wild goose chase that in the end leaves them still struggling and feeling defeated.

My holiday wish for you—don’t get stuck in the diet trap. Diet’s don’t work. In fact, diets can make things worse. Diets can lead to binge eating, to eventual weight gain, and to becoming more out of touch with your eating than you were before you started. If there was a diet that was truly THE answer, don’t you think that collectively we’d have a much smaller weight problem by now?

My holiday wish for you—find solutions that works for you and craft a path that will lead to lasting success. Don’t just ask the “experts.” First of all, promote yourself to “expert” status. You know yourself better than anyone else. You know your history with food, you know what your life is like and what works and what doesn’t. If you don’t include the information you know about yourself—any weight loss plan is more likely to fail.

My holiday wish for you—start with the right tools. Select tools that will take you where you want to go. You owe it to you take good care of yourself and give yourself what you need. If you are planning your course for the next year, setting goals or thinking about resolutions, set yourself up for success.

This month, I reminded the readers of my blog about some of the free resources I’ve shared over the year. There is still time to listen to my free teleseminar on how to reignite and reenergize weight loss motivation. You can also download some powerful information about emotional eating and an Emotional Eating Relief Kit to help you start taking control of food and eating in a way that works for you.

My holiday wish for you is that you honor your own wisdom, choose the weight loss and healthy lifestyle tools you use carefully, and find the support you need to THRIVE and enjoy the journey.

Happy Holidays,

Melissa

PS: As a way of sharing what I know, I’m running a “Thrive in 2009″ sale until January 5. My emotional eating, weight loss and healthy lifestyle programs and coaching plans and groups are deeply discounted or contain special bonuses or offers. Some of the items and early bird bonuses are limited in availability. You can check out the sale here.

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