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This comment completely missed the point. The point is, if you're trying to lose weight (setting aside whether that's a good idea), a diet isn't likely to be ef

by tdeck 4y ago

This comment completely missed the point. The point is, if you're trying to lose weight (setting aside whether that's a good idea), a diet isn't likely to be effective. Your response is exactly what MLM scams tell people who point out that 95% of their distributors lose money, and it just serves to deflect.

adrian_b 4y ago
A diet is 100% certain to be effective for losing weight, with the obvious conditions that it must be well conceived (to contain all the necessary nutrients, but less energy than needed for maintaining the current weight) and that it must be followed precisely. After a weight-losing diet is followed until a desired weight is reached, the diet must be changed to an appropriate weight-maintaining diet. The parent article is completely stupid, because it formulates the problem wrongly. The reason why a large number of people, after losing weight, gain weight again, is not that diets do not work. The reason is that those people stop following an appropriate diet and they revert to their previous style of eating, which obviously can have only a single consequence, gaining weight again. So all diets work perfectly and they deterministically cause losing weight, gaining weight or keeping a constant weight. The problem is that most people are not willing to change their eating habits and follow precisely a certain diet. I have been obese for more than 15 years and I also had the wrong impression that nothing that I do can make me lose weight permanently. Nevertheless, about 15 years ago, I have started for the first time to follow a diet with accuracy. After a year of losing weight continuously I have reached the desired weight and then I have kept it ever since (by never reverting to my previous eating style). Following accurately any kind of diet is impossible when you just eat randomly until feeling satiated. The only way to follow a diet that works is to measure everything that you eat, either by mass or by volume, and eat only the planned quantities, no more, no less. If you measure what you eat, any diet you choose will have exactly the desired effect, and you can reach and maintain any weight you want. Unfortunately, for many people this does not work because they either find it too tedious to measure their food, or they are not willing to stop eating after reaching the planned quantity, or they cannot stop themselves to eat some extra snacks between meals, besides the food that was planned in their diet. This is a problem of psychology, not of physiology. The diets work perfectly, if, and only if, people are willing to follow them forever. Obviously, any diet must be adjusted differently for each human, by measuring the weight every day for some time, to find out which are the quantities that ensure losing weight, gaining weight or keeping a constant weight.

by tdeck 4y ago

adrian_b 4y ago

A diet is 100% certain to be effective for losing weight, with the obvious conditions that it must be well conceived (to contain all the necessary nutrients, but less energy than needed for maintaining the current weight) and that it must be followed precisely. After a weight-losing diet is followed until a desired weight is reached, the diet must be changed to an appropriate weight-maintaining diet. The parent article is completely stupid, because it formulates the problem wrongly. The reason why a large number of people, after losing weight, gain weight again, is not that diets do not work. The reason is that those people stop following an appropriate diet and they revert to their previous style of eating, which obviously can have only a single consequence, gaining weight again. So all diets work perfectly and they deterministically cause losing weight, gaining weight or keeping a constant weight. The problem is that most people are not willing to change their eating habits and follow precisely a certain diet. I have been obese for more than 15 years and I also had the wrong impression that nothing that I do can make me lose weight permanently. Nevertheless, about 15 years ago, I have started for the first time to follow a diet with accuracy. After a year of losing weight continuously I have reached the desired weight and then I have kept it ever since (by never reverting to my previous eating style). Following accurately any kind of diet is impossible when you just eat randomly until feeling satiated. The only way to follow a diet that works is to measure everything that you eat, either by mass or by volume, and eat only the planned quantities, no more, no less. If you measure what you eat, any diet you choose will have exactly the desired effect, and you can reach and maintain any weight you want. Unfortunately, for many people this does not work because they either find it too tedious to measure their food, or they are not willing to stop eating after reaching the planned quantity, or they cannot stop themselves to eat some extra snacks between meals, besides the food that was planned in their diet. This is a problem of psychology, not of physiology. The diets work perfectly, if, and only if, people are willing to follow them forever. Obviously, any diet must be adjusted differently for each human, by measuring the weight every day for some time, to find out which are the quantities that ensure losing weight, gaining weight or keeping a constant weight.