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Raw food? Weight Watchers? South Beach? Eating real food (whole grains, vegetables, lean protein) at regular intervals? If diet indecision has you still eating doughnuts for breakfast, non-whole-wheat pizza for lunch and vowing to pick a program "next week," then you need to know this: It doesn’t matter which diet you choose, as long as you enjoy it as much as your favorite iPod tune. When it comes to reaching your weight goals, it is your ability to persist and enjoy the journey that matters.
So take stock of your eating preferences and lifestyle when you choose a diet. Your ability to stay with it long term depends in part on whether it fits easily into your lifestyle and doesn’t leave you feeling deprived. So if your job requires four-night-a-week client dinners, then ultra-low-fat options might be hard to manage. But it’s not hard to find a diet in which you add healthy omega-3 fats, such as salmon or mahi mahi or halibut, to your life. If you don’t know how to turn on an oven, choose something that lets you rely on prepared foods. Also consider whether you’ll feel deprived by the elimination of a food group if you choose a diet that requires that (although we don’t recommend it, unless you consider Nilla Wafers and french fries to be food groups).
So don’t let the endless weight-loss options give you diet paralysis. Pick a program with a combination of balanced, nutritious eating habits and regular exercise (of course, we’re partial to the YOU Diet! That’s our easy and tasty version of Mediterranean remade for American and Canadian tastes), and you’ll triumph in the game of healthy waist size for life.
TO SUBMIT QUESTIONSTO Mike Roizen and Mehmet Oz — the YOU DOCS — visit RealAge.com, the docs’ online home. The doctors are authors of "YOU: The Owner’s Manual" and "YOU: On a Diet."
