Consistent Diet

[Barbarella]

I am not one for extreme dieting, strict planning or cutting things out. A little background - I don't do any competitions but I definitely want to maintain the best body I can. In doing so I keep my diet consistent I do eat whatever I want but for the most part I make healthy choices but if I want desert, I'm going to have desert! I feel like I've been able to maintain this because of consistency, both with making healthy food choices as well as maintaining a consistent gym schedule over the past 7 years. 

With that being said I feel like dieting has been taken to an extreme - completely cutting things out or not allow yourself to have something if you really want it. Theory goes if you decrease your amount of sugar intake for a period of 2-3 weeks your sugar cravings will be less and so on. So you can definitely train your body to only want healthy foods. I get that strict diets are the make or break for someone who is competing but is the yo-yoing on and off competitions really worth the damage/confusion it is likely causing your body?

Anyways I'm rambling but would love to hear everyones thoughts on consistency vs. extreme dieting. 

 

[Outlawthing]

Consistency by far I used to be over three hundred lbs tried every diet out there minimal success then I just kinda started eating healthy and counting calories  and stuck with it bam no fad diet can beat and quality and time imo as well 

 

[Dolf]

Agreed...making it too hard to stick with is never a good thing. Small changes and being consistent trumps constantly falling off the wagon on a diet that's too hard.