Q&A 42 – Why do diets fail us?

Are diets the right tool when we want to lose weight? They tend to be the only one we use, but what if there’s an alternative? What if diets are actually contributing to the suffering we experience about food? And what if there were an alternative way to approach resolving an overeating habit?You can listen above, on your favorite podcast app, or watch on YouTube. Notes, links, resources and a full transcript are below. Show Notes* What is the cause of our suffering when we want to lose weight? * How our thoughts are at the root of so much trouble for us * Why diets are like putting gasoline on a fire when it comes to weight loss * What if food cravings come from a wise place within us?Transcript of episodeHello Explorers, and welcome to Unbroken Q&A episode 42. I’m Alexandra Amor. Today I’m here with just a quick introduction to an audio that I’m going to attach to the back of this introduction.This is an audio track that I recorded recently for Insight Timer.I’m going to be teaching some classes over on that app. It’s a really great, great app, if you haven’t heard of it, I haven’t had that much exposure to it. I’ve been having a lot of fun creating, just recently creating some material for it some classes and some audio tracks. It’s all audio based. And you can listen anywhere, of course, anywhere as long as you’ve got your phone, and an internet connection.The audio track is called: Why do diets fail us?And it’s about why diets don’t work and the psychology behind them and the reason that that is. I hope that if you’re a regular listener to this podcast, or if you’ve read some of my books, that you’ve started to see that diets are trying to answer a problem that doesn’t exist. And they’re the wrong tool for the job, which is something I bring up in this audio track.If you have been around for a while, and you’ve listened to the podcast for a bit, or you’ve read some of my books, I think this will be a really nice overview or kind of review for you of the things that I talk about all the time. And it’s always good to listen and to stay in the conversation, as we say, as much as we can, as much as it is fun and interesting for us.Insights can happen at any moment. I often found and I still find as I’m exploring this understanding, I can listen to something more than once and get something different out of it each time and maybe have some new insights no matter what’s going on. So I hope that’s the case for you. And yeah, I hope you enjoy this audio track and that you were doing well and taking good care.I will talk to you again next week. Please enjoy.Why do diets fail us?Hello and welcome, I’m Alexandra Amor, coach, podcaster, and author of several books, including The Secret Language of Cravings.Let me ask you a question: have you had a diet fail you? In other words, have you had a diet make promises it didn’t keep?Given that you’re listening to this, you may have answered yes to that question and I’ll say me too! Over and over again.And it wasn’t for lack of trying on my part. Perhaps you can relate to that as well.So…what’s happening when a diet fails us? Is it that we lack will power or stick-to-it-iveness? Our culture seems to tell us that this is the cause, doesn’t it?What if the reason diets fail us because they’re the wrong tool for the job?When we are using a diet or wanting to use a diet, what is causing that impulse?The obvious answer you might offer is because we want to lose weight. That’s not rocket science.Given that this is the case for most of us,