As others have said, this gradient of weight loss is a terrible idea. More generally, though, it seems that there are enough people doing diets that instead of

As others have said, this gradient of weight loss is a terrible idea. More generally, though, it seems that there are enough people doing diets that instead of reading articles about how someone thinks that they're going to lose weight, we could just wait for someone to actually lose a lot of weight, and then read a post that talks about how they did it, no?