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What’s Your Diet Personality? The Diet Channel Announces Launch of Diet Personality Quiz
The Diet Personality Quiz is one part fun and one part science. The quiz is designed to help dieters identify a weight loss plan that fits their personality and eating behavior. Are you an Office Space Dieter, a Couch Potato Dieter, or a Sexy Dieter?
San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) July 17, 2006 -- What’s Your Diet Personality?
Are you an Office Space Dieter, a Couch Potato Dieter, or a Sexy Dieter?
Recently launched by the TheDietChannel.com, the
Diet Personality Quiz is one part fun and one part science.
The quiz is designed to help dieters identify a weight loss plan that fits
both their personality and eating behavior. The Diet Personality Quiz
consists of approximately 20 multiple choice questions. After a person
completes the quiz, the answers are assessed and each person is assigned the
most appropriate diet personality based on the answers they provide. (Bloggers
interested in adding the quiz to their site can copy the html code here:
http://www.thedietchannel.com/dietquiz/code.htm.)
The Diet Channel has identified 10 diet personality types of which 3 are
matched to each person by relevance. The 10 personality types are:
•The Overeater - Overeaters, like most people in western culture, simply eat
too much. It's not their fault that restaurants continue to make portions
larger, thereby setting the generally accepted portion size standards higher
and higher. That doesn’t change the fact that they need to lose weight.
Given that overeating is their weight loss challenge, chances are good that
a portion control diet is what The Overeater needs.
•The Office Space Dieter - Office Space Dieters generally eat a healthy
balanced diet but, because their daily lives are lethargic and lack
sufficient exercise, their metabolism is slow and they end up gaining
weight. Office Space Dieters tend to do well on diet plans that emphasize
exercise in addition to a healthy diet.
•The Couch Potato Dieter - Couch Potato Dieters are those people who just
can’t say no to high fat, high calorie snack foods. Coach Potato's don’t
just overeat; they also eat the wrong foods. Coach Potato’s tend to lose
weight on diets that focus on caloric intake.
•The Health Conscious Dieter - Health Conscious Dieters are those people
who, either because they have a health condition or want to prevent one,
choose to follow a specific diet plan geared towards that health condition.
Common diet programs built around health conditions are heart healthy diets,
low cholesterol diets, low sodium diets, low fat diets, diabetic diets, and
lactose intolerant diets.
•The Socially Active Dieter - The Socially Active Dieter is that person who
wants to lose weight but needs a diet program that fits their socially
active lifestyle. Socially Active Dieters dine out frequently and often
spend evenings and weekends in group gatherings were the menu is often
beyond their control. As such, they need a diet plan that requires little
maintenance or meal planning on their behalf. Portion control diets tend to
work well for Socially Active Dieters.
•The Swimsuit Dieter - The Swimsuit Dieter is the woman (though it could be
a man these days!) who isn’t generally overweight but would like to lose a
few pounds to squeeze into the swimsuit in a few weeks. "Swimsuiters" tend
to lean towards diet plans where they can lose a few pounds fast. Low-carb
diets and high fiber diets tend to be popular with the Swimsuit Dieter.
•The Tipping Point Dieter - Tipping Point Dieters are those people who wake
up one morning and decide they have simply had enough. They admit to
themselves that they have gained as much weight as they can possibly
tolerate and they are willing to make substantial lifestyle changes to turn
things around. Tipping Point Dieters tend to embrace long term weight loss
programs as well as programs that emphasize healthy eating along with
exercise.
•The Realistic Dieter - Realistic Dieters know their limitations. They
understand they need to lose weight but know themselves well enough to
understand they won't be successful at starving themselves. Realistic
Dieters tend to find success with high fiber diets where they feel full but
can still lose weight.
•The Emotional Eater - Emotional Eaters are those people who generally eat a
healthy diet but, when confronted with emotional stress, tend to overeat and
consume high fat, carb heavy "comfort foods". Emotional Eaters often find
success with weight loss programs that include access to a support network
of fellow dieters who can offer encouragement through emotionally stressful
periods.
•The Serial Dieter - Serial Dieters are those people who seem to bounce from
diet to diet without ever achieving lasting weight loss, despite their deep
desire to obtain it. Serial Dieters, if they can restrain themselves from
habitually switching from diet to diet, can find weight loss success in
programs that promote long term weight loss solutions.
About TheDietChannel.com
Started in 1999, The Diet Channel publishes expert information on diets,
weight loss, nutrition, health, and fitness. The site publishes 10-20 new
expert articles each week on topics as diverse as Emotional Eating and
Cancer Fighting Foods.