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Pick a Diet You Can Stick with for the Rest of Your Life
If you are debating which diet to try, consider asking yourself a simple question:
Could you eat this way for the rest of your life?
If the answer is no, move on. This is often the case for overly restrictive diets such as keto, carnivore, or vegan.
If the answer is yes, you’ve likely found the ‘diet’ for you.
Diets such as the Mediterranean Diet or DASH don’t capture most of the headlines because they are not controversial.
But these are the types of diets you can stick with for life.
Some people can eat a very low carb diet over the long haul, but most cannot — often relapsing and binging once they slip up once.
The key is to figure out what will work for you. Not for the next week. For the rest of your life.
There is no need to even label your diet. Instead, think about certain meals you can eat regularly without feeling deprived or hungry afterwards.
For me, it’s pretty simple.
Breakfast = Oatmeal (or oat bran), topped with walnuts, blueberries, and cinnamon
Lunch = Big salad with leafy greens (kale, arugula, spinach), other veggies (tomatoes, peppers, etc.), lean protein (grilled chicken…
