You don't "diet". Here are the rules (and they work):
1- eat anything you want (don't eat diet crap)
2- eat when you're hungry (no emotional eating)
3- eat mindfully (one bite at a time, put your fork down, chew 20 times or so, taste your food)
4- stop when you are full.
The rest is elaboration. Exercise helps, of course, and learning to enjoy exercise will help you in a lot of ways (disease prevention etc.).
But the big thing for me has been learning how to eat. That conquered, the rest comes naturally.
You don't "diet". Here are the rules (and they work):
1- eat anything you want (don't eat diet crap)
2- eat when you're hungry (no emotional eating)
3- eat mindfully (one bite at a time, put your fork down, chew 20 times or so, taste your food)
4- stop when you are full.
The rest is elaboration. Exercise helps, of course, and learning to enjoy exercise will help you in a lot of ways (disease prevention etc.).
But the big thing for me has been learning how to eat. That conquered, the rest comes naturally.