Rob

writes:

I'm saying it was a fad diet 30 years ago that didn't work "long term"
and it's still a fad diet 30 years later that won't work "long term".

We've got people who've been on it for several years.

It's a quick fix with stories all over about people who have lost, then
gained, then lost again, then gained everything back plus more.

Not stories all over. A few stories, but not many. At least 80 percent of all
dieters fail, and most diets these days are low-fat.

Fad diets that require foods or food groups to be cut from the diet are
the most likely to fail. Wouldn't that make them the hardest diets?

No, not if you found that you preferred the new way of eating. I find this
much easier than you could possibly imagine. My appetite has diminished, and
my weight has followed. I feel healthier than ever. I'm not missing the baked
goods and pasta I used to live on, and I prefer the foods I'm eating now.

Why do people that have failed already think they should try one of the
hardest diets?

I haven't failed, and this diet isn't hard.

Count calories. It's the only way to succeed, that's the bottom line.

No, there is no one diet that works for all people. This worked for me,
because I reduced calories by virtue of a reduced appetite. I never counted
calories at all.

You, in the mean time, have become increasingly trollish. You haven't done
your own research, and you haven't paid attention to what people here have told
you. So I think you're going into the killfile. Bye.


Daria
166/under 145/under 145
sugar-free since 2/1/04
low-carb since 2/17/04