Positive Thinking Diet?

I thought I had heard everything on the "diet"arena but was I wrong? The other day I just read about a new type of diet: "the positive thinking diet". WOW. This is something new. Let's see what is all about it.

According to Health.com, the positive thinking diet is a dieting plan that involves the use of methods used in cognitive behavioral therapy. It combines psychological therapy with dieting. According to proponents of the positive thinking diet, negative thinking is relating to sabotaging your dieting efforts., So you need to change your negative thoughts about dieting for positive ones to have sauces in dieting. This sounds logic at least. According to the positive thinking diet you will learn to identify when negative thinking is triggering you into failure, to correct the situation and to improve your odds for success on your weight loss efforts.

There are a few ways you may being negative and the positive thinking diet talk about the two most common forms of negative thinking: polarization and filtration. In polarization, negative thinkers engage in negative self talk. It is like black and white thinking, no gray in between. Giving up on dieting is the net result of such thinking since you may give up on your weight loss effort when you become completely frustrated with yourself.

In filtering you pay attention more to the negative thoughts than to positives ones. This way negativity gets your attention and you forget or ignore the positive effects of dieting and exercise. Let say that you have following your diet for a week and then you eat that wanted burger at your favorite fast food store. Instead of thinking that you have had a week of fitfully dieting and exercise you focus entirely on that faulty negative piece of action of eating that burger. The negative thing overpower all the positives you have achieved.

Th positive thinking diet involve (guess?) remaining positive while you diet and exercise. But you need to be realistic and do not set those unattainable weight loss goals like 10 pound a week loss or 1 pound a day. You need to set a 1-2 pound a week which is pretty much a realistic goal and of course remain positive about it.

Also, if you fall of the wagon because one day you eat those two or three pieces of cakes at your grandma house do not panic, do not get negative. After all you are a human not a machine that will follow instructions blindly. If that happens refocus and go back to your weight loss plan.

I do not know about this "positive thinking diet"(I haven't tried but if it works for you, let me know in the comment section. Thanks...

More on the positive thinking diet at

http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/library/positive-thinking/SR00009.html

http://www.wlbt.com/Global/story.asp?S=10971771