Diet with Dignity: Make It Your Own and Make It Last

"It's important to get away from the mentality that you are temporarily adopting someone else's diet to achieve a weight loss goal, only to go back to your own bad habits immediately following. For sustainability purposes, you are better off developing an adapted version of diet that is personalized to your own tastes and preferences. Dieting should not be a fad but rather a lifestyle." — Kurt Bravata, M.D., Live Free or Diet

How to Personalize Your Diet

1. Research before you start — don't begin on impulse
2. Make a meal plan
3. Shop strategically — remove temptations from your home
4. Adapt to your tastes
5. Allow flexibility — occasional treats without guilt

Don't Be a Food Snob

"Becoming a food snob makes you irritating at best, or intolerable at worst, to anyone eating a meal with you." — Live Free or Diet

Diet to Live. Don't Live to Diet.

"Let your diet be one part of a larger, vibrant tapestry of health, where living well encompasses body, mind, and soul." — Live Free or Diet

As Matthew 6:25–27 (NIV): "Do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink... Is not life more than food?"

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