The word "diet" is wrong to begin with. Dieting literally means restriction. Restriction is wrong in all sorts of ways. For one, life is short! If you really love pizza, why would you "diet" and restrict yourself from pizza? Doesn't this just make life less enjoyable. Sure, pizza isn't the healthiest choice, but there are ways to still enjoy our favorite foods without ever even having the word "diet" in our vocabulary!

Diets Promote Short Term Success

People often diet to lose weight quickly, or see results they wish to see as soon as possible. Sure, eating carrots for 2 weeks may help you shed a few pounds. But once people see this success, they tend to go back to their previous way of living and even sometimes loose the results they aimed for.

Diets Can Actually Hurt Our Health

Yes, thats true! Back to the carrot example, it's not even healthy to restrict yourself so severely where you actually hurt your body. We all need proper nutrition and calories for our body. We shouldn't hurt our bodies in one way to "help" it in another way! That doesn't help anybody.

There Are Healthy Ways to Reach Your Goals

No matter what your goal may be; losing weight, gaining weight, toning up, gaining muscle, etc there are healthy ways to reach these! Everybody can benefit from making healthy choices throughout the day, eating proper meals and snacks, regular (not excessive) exercise, and of course honoring cravings every now and again!

Diets promote short term health, but long term health is the ultimate goal. Long term healthy lifestyles is how to accomplish this, and this lifestyle looks different for everyone! Listening to a doctor and your body is the best way to accomplish overall health and happiness. Sure, diets are essential for some people to live a healthy life, and these diets are given by doctors. Trendy diets promoted on the internet and social media are the unhealthy diets I'm referring to. Be nice to your body!