What is dieting?

Celebs are always pushing a new diet. This time of year friends, family and coworkers are munching on carrot sticks and rice cakes or chugging lemon juice with cayenne pepper. But is dieting really a necessity to lose weight?

It may shock you but I am going to go out on a limb and say for most people...no. At least not in the mainstream sense of the term. The main problem with deprivation diets is that they give you fast results and work while you follow them strictly but, the second you cheat or realize that you are not going to be able to live like this the rest of your life, you crash right back to where you started.

This is why I encourage people to "diet" sustainably by finding ways they can maintain a healthy, portion-controlled meal plan they can live with.

The importance of what you eat affects every other aspect of a healthy lifestyle. You can lose weight, boost your metabolism, increase your energy, have better sex and a host of other things just by maintaining healthy eating habits. 

Hear me out,  I am not saying don't exercise but, all things equal, what you eat is the most important part of reaching the weight you want. Take a look below to see how to affect your metabolism just by what you put in your body.

Metabolism boosters.