If you’ve spent years on and off diets, losing a bit, gaining it back, starting again Monday,you already know: quick fixes don’t stick.
They might feel exciting at first. There’s usually a shiny promise. A new plan. A bold claim. And if you’re feeling low in confidence or frustrated with your body, it’s easy to grab onto something that tells you this will finally work.
But if you’re honest, has any of it worked long term?
Here’s why it usually doesn’t.
Most crash diets rely on one thing: restriction. Less food, fewer options, rigid rules.
And sure, if you go from eating three meals a day to barely anything, you’ll probably lose weight at first. But what’s actually happening?
You lose water, sometimes muscle, and often your energy.
Your metabolism slows down.
Your cravings shoot up.
And eventually, sometimes a few weeks in, sometimes a few months, you burn out. The diet ends. And you’re back to square one. Except now, you feel even more frustrated.
It’s not that you’re weak or lazy. It’s that the plan was never meant to be sustainable in the first place.
If your goal is to feel better, have more energy, sleep well, lose body fat, or improve your health, the answer isn’t to do something extreme for a short time.
It’s to do something consistent for a long time.
And that usually looks much simpler than most diet plans:
It’s not sexy. But it works. Especially for women over 40 whose bodies don’t bounce back the way they used to and shouldn’t have to.
One of the biggest mindset shifts I see in my clients is this: instead of constantly asking, “what should I cut out?”, they start asking, “what do I need more of?”
More protein.
More structure.
More consistency.
More grace when life gets busy.
That’s what gets you off the diet hamster wheel and into something that lasts.
If this sounds like where you’re at, tired of dieting, unsure what to try next, and wanting to finally do it differently - let’s talk.