This is a guest post by Lisa Roberts.

Usually the first thing people do when they decide to lose weight is pick a faddy diet to go on. This usually means having to eat foods that we are not too crazy about. It often requires you to have to learn a new way of cooking and preparing meals, which can be quite challenging. It’s no wonder so many people fail at losing weight.

Firstly, for the most part, many diets do not give you the tools you need to be successful in losing weight. They simply do not supply you with strategies you need to help you lose weight quickly and safely in different types of environments. Whether it’s learning how to cook low fat or knowing what to order when you eat out. Many of them fail to supply this information and often these diet plans include unrealistic expectations, which are unhealthy for us in the long-run.

Secondly, they also do not teach us efficient ways to exercise. Often the exercise routine is not even included in a weight loss plan.

Thirdly, they don’t give us the information we need to learn how to fight our cravings. This is a big part of being able to lose weight and keep it off. Without this necessary tool, we will keep making the same mistakes repeatedly.

Fourthly, when you go on a diet you may go for the all or nothing approach. You reduce calories so much, that it actually hinders our ability to lose weight. When the body is starving, it will actually begin to hold onto fat within the body. This makes it even more challenging to drop weight. Your metabolism will be affected because once you decide to get off this diet; your metabolism is so slow it will cause you to put on weight.

You become exhausted from making so many difficult changes to your lifestyle that they eventually give in. This usually ends up with them putting back on the weight you had lost.

When you decide to go back on a diet, it actually becomes even more difficult to lose weight. This is because you lose patience, become frustrated with yourself and may even become depressed. This is when you begin telling yourself that your attempts will not work and that you will fail.

Back in 2007, researchers at UCLA did a meta-analysis, a study of 31 other studies, and found that most dieters gain the weight back and more in the long term. A further four-year study of 19,000 healthy older men found that

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