Death Of The Diet Day Is May 4th Say PruHealth

people get overly ambitious about their healthy eating plans

The insurance company Pru­Health has undertaken a survey to examine the attitudes that people have towards their diets and has concluded that May 4th is the ‘Death Of The Diet Day’. What they mean by this is that those people who started a healthy eating campaign at the beginning of the year are likely to start eating unhealthily again on that day. Over 60 percent of UK citizens said that they were planning to get fit and eat healthy at the start of the year and out of these over 25 percent gave up without even arriving at the end of the month and almost a third gave up before the Death Of The Diet Day.

The Pru­Health survey is interesting because it shows that people genuinely do want to lose weight and get healthy but find it very difficult. At Ukmedix News we reckon that the cause of this is that people get overly ambitious about their healthy eating plans tried to change them too quickly.  Changing your diet should be a gradual process and should be realistically manageable.  Going from burgers and chips to salads and celery overnight will not work and will leave you miserable and unable to cope.

The same goes for exercise. Do not try to run a marathon on January 1st when you have been a couch potato for the whole previous year but instead slowly build up your exercise habits over a period of a few months.

In the Ukmedix Newsroom we believe that changes in eating and exercise patterns should be ‘evolutionary’ rather than ‘revolutionary’ if they are to be sustained in the long term. We also believe that making small changes to your lives every single day can reap big benefits in the future. Weight loss is never easy but with a determined mindset and a good bit of advice and help you can take control of your life and acquire the health that you should have and get the shape that you want.