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Why You Can’t Stick To A Diet

Gabe Johansson
2 min readJul 20, 2024

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The number of people who start a diet in January and actually stick to it until February is relatively low.

But now we’re in July and that number is dramatically lower.

And there’s a myriad of reasons why, such as:

  • It’s hard to diet (and I agree it can be)
  • Not knowing what to eat
  • Lack of diet planning on holidays and random weekends
  • Mistaking boredom for hunger
  • Messing up once and throwing the whole diet away
  • Lack of supportive friends or family “just have one bite”
  • Not finding the right internal drive to make it happen

But one of the biggest and most common reasons why you can’t stick to a diet?

It’s trying to do too much, too quick.

And this usually means one of 2 things:

  1. The diet changes are too dramatic
  2. The calorie deficit is too big

Think about it this way…

If you’re used to eating a certain way for so long, of course you’re going to have to make some changes, otherwise you’ll keep getting the same results you’ve been getting.

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Gabe Johansson
Gabe Johansson

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