natalie wrote:
"Where else in medicine do we offer a solution -- dieting -- that is
going to fail and then point to the end user and say, 'You are
weak-willed; you don't have enough willpower'?" she asks.

For me, the question has boiled down to a choice between eating what I want all
the time versus following the South Beach diet, which I have already proven
capable of taking my weight off. Balancing those two extremes is the ticket.
it's not that the diet doesn't work or that I lack will power; it's that I have
to experiment with how much pleasure eating I can do before I stop losing
weight. Giving up the diet entirely, even for a few days or weeks, can really
make it hard to get back on. Any diet has to constitute a long-term shift in
terms of the go-to foods one eats every day. Most diets can withstand some
straying, but straying can't turn into yet another shift away from the diet.

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