The Pre-diet Checklist to Help You Through Your Next (and Hopefully Last!) Diet

Preparation for Dieting

Note: This information has come from a collection of magazines including Men's Health, Flex, Reps, and (in my opinion) one of the most important and complete guides to diet and body health, the "Muscle Chow Diet" by Gregg Avedon, as well as my own personal experience and schooling (yeah I'm a bio major).

First we need to make a few assessments. What are your goals? Write them down, keep them on your wall. Write it on your forearm and trace over it after you shower so you'll always see it. The point is, make goals and put them in a place you'll see.

Ask your friends to help you stay motivated. Maybe they'd like to join you!

Start by just increasing your physical activity slightly. Get a drink from the kitchen yourself instead of having your dog get it from the refrigerator. Purposely park farther from the entrance of wherever your going to get a little bit of extra exercise.

Now lets face it. Probably around 95% of people who go on a diet stop for the reason that they don't see results. They're just simply not ready for a diet, and that's OK. So the question is, how do you get ready? You don't just show up on the day of a marathon to run it (I hope not) you'll fall out and possibly hurt yourself. So this is the best way I've found (and it has actually been recommended to me during my research by other people, which I think is cool to hear about it from several primary sources).

Decide what the worst item in your diet is. Say it's pizza, and you eat 4 slices per week. Cut it down to two. After a week or two cut it down to 1, then move on to another item. After a few months of this you will already be eating a fairly good diet, and you'll be ready to start on a diet program.

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