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The Diet Dilemma
By: Scottsdale Weight Loss Center
Published: September 9, 2016
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Standard diets don’t work. Anyone who has been around the block once or twice with their bathroom scale knows that the average diet doesn’t deliver long lasting results. Fad diets are especially notorious for bringing on nothing but disappointment. The majority of the time, these specially designed diets take advantage of severe calorie cuts and the elimination of entire food groups to help you lose a quick couple of pounds before the weight loss stables off entirely, and more often than not the weight comes right back—often with a few extra pounds on top of it.
Diets, in their traditional sense, really don’t work. This isn’t just a judgement statement, or even a reflection on the millions of anecdotal diet failures that you can easily find testimony to online. The standard idea of a diet doesn’t work, and this is according to the results of a study by a team of neuroscientists who looked at the way that the brain responds to dieting.
The problem, according to a recent study, is that the average diet forces you to think of food in a constantly negative way. When following a typical diet plan, every time hunger strikes you are forced to think immediately of what you cannot have, and are left with a severely limited diet plan that can leave you feeling bored and depressed with your food options. Constant feelings of deprivation isn’t going to help you maintain a positive attitude about your weight loss goals.
Instead, the healthier—and more successful option, by far—is to quit dieting altogether and to instead make fundamental changes in the way that you look at food and exercise. Transitioning to a healthier lifestyle, one that focuses on the positive changes that you can make in your life, is a much more successful way to lose weight.
This is the approach that medical weight loss programs take, which is why working with a medical weight loss program is such a better idea than trying a traditional diet plan on your own. Medical weight loss programs provide ongoing support from weight loss specialists, like your medical weight loss doctor, which means access to weight loss tools that work better than diet and exercise alone. A quality weight loss program doesn’t buy into fads or elimination diets, but instead focuses on the ways that you can improve your diet with healthier eating choices.
Diets don’t work. This is a reality that it is time to face. If you want to lose weight, better options are out there for you. Talk to your medical weight loss doctor to learn more about what options are available for you.
Nick
Nick's Story
"I wish I would have come here first. We spend all our time reacting to the next great weight loss tip or program. It might work for a while, but does not last and we end up yo-yoing from one fad to the next – as we gain more weight." Read More
Gina
Lost 44.5 lbs
"I had no trouble adhering to the meals and they really helped catapult my progress! The classes were so beneficial to me because they helped change my thinking about how I viewed health, nutrition, and fitness.
I will always have my relationship with Scottsdale Weight Loss Center. They truly helped me change my life forever." Read More
Lauren
Lost 60 lbs
"Dr. Ziltzer and everyone who I have come in contact with at the Scottsdale Weight Loss office have been so encouraging and I look forward to seeing them each week. It is now a year and 2 months later since I started. I am down 60 lbs., which is the average amount a 9-year-old weighs, it is crazy to think I lost a whole person! I feel amazing, I hit my goal weight in November 2021 just before Thanksgiving. Nothing on my body hurts anymore..." Read More
Chuck
Lost 66 lbs
"The best thing I did was call the Scottsdale Weight Loss Center. I have a lot more energy, I'm not hungry, and it feels great.
You can take it from me that this is a program that produces results. The staff is always positive, supportive, and never judgmental.
Your visits always result in positive reinforcement, no matter if you had a good week or a bad week." Read More
Emily
Lost 101 lbs
"Here I am at the lowest I have been since high school weighing in at 155lbs. I have lost 101 lbs, BMI of 39 when I started, to 21.6, and of course at body fat % of 47.1 to 26.5%. I told myself by my 30th birthday I wanted to be confident in the way I look and I owe it all to SWLC. The entire staff is so welcoming and they are rooting for you just as much as you are rooting for yourself...." Read More
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Meet Our Team
Robert Ziltzer, MD, FACP, FAAP, FOMA
Obesity Medicine Certified Physician
Diana Bone, FNP-C
Specializing in Obesity Medicine
Craig Primack, MD, FACP, FAAP, MFOMA
Obesity Medicine Certified Physician
Kristen Ash, FNP-C, FNP-BC
Nurse Practitioner
Alicia Earley, FNP-C
Family Nurse Practitioner
