Here’s an interesting point I hadn’t considered in the past.

I have slowly been coming to the conclusion recently that mixing up your exercise regime is a good thing. It keeps your body guessing from one week to the next if you keep changing weights, exercises and the order in which you do them but the author of a blog I just visited does the same thing with his diet.

He changes from one diet to another each week and says he feels it’s largely responsible for his weight loss success.

We know a lot of diets work - there isn’t just one that works - and by swapping things around and changing your diet every week or two it goves you an opportunity to test out diets to see which work best for you and suit your lifestyle, and it also keeps your body guessing about what is happening next. In addition, it’s hard to get bored of a diet if you’re only on it for a week. If you feel you’re missing out on something, choose a diet the following week that allows you that item.

It’s rather like what I found on the Atkins Diet. Some parts of it I loved, but I really missed fruit. The Body For Life diet however allows (even encourages) certain fruits, so by swapping them around doing a week of one followed by a week of the other it would be hard to get too bored.

I’m not saying it’s a recommendation (yet) but it’s certainly a new idea worth considering if you fancy a change to your weight loss program.

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