mply, isn't good for you. The long term idea is that you will slowly get used to the diet food and want your old way of eating less and less.

I like to look upon diets, not as restricting what you can eat, but rather like holidaying in a different country. The food you used to eat is stil

We are surrounded by dieting myths; many of which have grown up over the years until they have become, more or less, universally accepted. So, by way of making a start, here are four of them put well and truly into context!

Diet food is boring and you can't eat the food you like One of the main points about healthy dieting is that you get to eat from a wide range of really good food, including some of the best tasting desserts around. However, you're right, there is a down side.

If your present food is unhealthy food laden with fat and sugar or other undesirables, then you won't be allowed to eat it every day -simple as that! Seen from this point of view, a diet will appear restrictive, although most diets now have enough variety to stop them from being boring. If you find that you really are limited in what you can eat on your diet then perhaps you should look at another diet plan.

And, of course, you can have a day off. Most sensible diet plans accept that you need time off and allow you to eat what you like sometimes.

The point of this is to allow you to enjoy the sort of food that you used to eat and which, to put it simply, isn't good for you. The long term idea is that you will slowly get used to the diet food and want your old way of eating less and less.

I like to look upon diets, not as restricting what you can eat, but rather like holidaying in a different country. The food you used to eat is stil

trong> One of the main points about healthy dieting is that you get to eat from a wide range of really good food, including some of the best tasting desserts around. However, you're right, there is a down side.

If your present food is unhealthy food laden with fat and sugar or other undesirables, then you won't be allowed to eat it every day -simple as that! Seen from this point of view, a diet will appear restrictive, although most diets now have enough variety to stop them from being boring. If you find that you really are limited in what you can eat on your diet then perhaps you should look at another diet plan.

And, of course, you can have a day off. Most sensible diet plans accept that you need time off and allow you to eat what you like sometimes.

The point of this is to allow you to enjoy the sort of food that you used to eat and which, to put it simply, isn't good for you. The long term idea is that you will slowly get used to the diet food and want your old way of eating less and less.

I like to look upon diets, not as restricting what you can eat, but rather like holidaying in a different country. The food you used to eat is stil

irables, then you won't be allowed to eat it every day -simple as that! Seen from this point of view, a diet will appear restrictive, although most diets now have enough variety to stop them from being boring. If you find that you really are limited in what you can eat on your diet then perhaps you should look at another diet plan.

And, of course, you can have a day off. Most sensible diet plans accept that you need time off and allow you to eat what you like sometimes.

The point of this is to allow you to enjoy the sort of food that you used to eat and which, to put it simply, isn't good for you. The long term idea is that you will slowly get used to the diet food and want your old way of eating less and less.

I like to look upon diets, not as restricting what you can eat, but rather like holidaying in a different country. The food you used to eat is stil

you should look at another diet plan.

And, of course, you can have a day off. Most sensible diet plans accept that you need time off and allow you to eat what you like sometimes.

The point of this is to allow you to enjoy the sort of food that you used to eat and which, to put it simply, isn't good for you. The long term idea is that you will slowly get used to the diet food and want your old way of eating less and less.

I like to look upon diets, not as restricting what you can eat, but rather like holidaying in a different country. The food you used to eat is stil

mply, isn't good for you. The long term idea is that you will slowly get used to the diet food and want your old way of eating less and less.

I like to look upon diets, not as restricting what you can eat, but rather like holidaying in a different country. The food you used to eat is still there, it's just a bit harder to get at, while you are now surrounded by a table spread with a whole host of new food that is both delicious and tasty and just waiting for you to try. The difference, of course, is that you never need go home!

Some of this new food you will like and some of it you will not like so much, but you will soon develop some new favorites and these will, in future, become your foods of choice.

If the thought of adapting to new food worries you (and it's a perfectly normal worry to have) take some time out before your diet begins for a dummy run of a month or so to try the sort of food allowed and see how you get on. If you then feel that the diet is really not for you, don't give up; look around and find another that caters more for your taste and have another trial period.

The reality of healthy eating for most people is that they end up really liking the food but sometimes this does take a week or so.

If I skip a meal I will lose more weight The theory is good – eat less calories and you'll lose weight – but the reality is a little different.

Your body is not stupid, it knows how many calorie