When we hear "diet," we consider restrictive food decisions, calorie counting, and restlessly venturing onto a scale. However, a healthy diet isn't a diet by any means. It's about making reliably significant, feasible decisions over time - and even indulging  (with some restraint, obviously!).

Traditional diets don't work since they encourage an obsession with food and are frequently centered around convenient solutions as opposed to long term, reasonable change. "This can prompt expanded pressure, which like this can drive us to poor decisions," says Adam Perlman, MD, meQuilibrium's Chief Medical Officer. "We should be mindful so as not to sustain negativity around food and eating- - because actually, we have to eat to survive. These sorts of strict diets don't work."

Then again, proper dieting fills in as a cushion against pressure and offers a characteristic lift: When we eat well, we feel much improved, and we have more vitality, two things that can't be estimated by a scale.