If you're overweight and you've been a serial dieter for years, wouldn't it be bliss to be able to give up diets forever? It's amazing the number of people who spend a very large proportion of their lives going on a diet. Some of them may go on their own diets, but others regularly put their hands into their pockets and shell out money for the latest package of weight loss promises.

Constantly going on diet after diet is not good for you both physically and psychologically. It's been found that there is a considerable personal price to pay for frequent dieting.

Physically, dieting can actually make your weight problem worse. When you lose weight you lose fat, but you also lose muscle. When you put the weight back on again, what comes back is fat, not muscle. Unless you go on a fairly intensive course of resistance exercises, you will never recover that muscle mass. Added to that, as you get older you lose muscle mass naturally. You lose between 0.5% and 2% of muscle mass every year over the age of forty. The combination of losing muscle mass through going on endless diets and natural muscle loss can have a pretty devastating effect on you physically. It leaves you very weak, and as you get older mobility gets to be an even greater problem - particularly if you are still overweight.

Mentally, serial dieting can leave you very depressed. Constant failure erodes self-confidence and diminishes self-esteem. The ability to succeed at losing weight gets less after every diet. The ability to succeed at anything evaporates too.

The best way to get diet free and the best way to lose weight is not to go on a diet, but to get rid of the habits that make you fat. How do you do this? You start by increasing your self-awareness. If you can recognize the bad habits you have a much better idea of where you're coming from. The next thing you need to do is to learn new habits, slim habits. This will enable you to change your behavior. To learn new eating and lifestyle habits, slim habits.