Maybe because more and more research, coupled with the personal experience of everyone who’s ever had a weight problem, is showing that Diets Don’t Work. People get slim, feel good, drop the diet, gain the weight back and then some. I don’t think science has given us any particularly effective methods of controlling weight.
The answer remains less calories and more exercise, but diet plans apparently do not provide an effective means of long term change.
Not necessarily fewer calories, but certainly better, more well thought out calories. We tend to have a problem with processed carbs in this country. Cut back on that, move those calories over to animal proteins and fat, exercise regularly (preferably weight training), and that fat will recomp into muscle fairly quickly. It's all about consistency, that's why "diets" fail. It's seen as a thing to do for a short time and then you can dump it and go back to what you were doing.
That approach is guaranteed to fail, but people don't like to change even when their current habits are killing them quickly.
I shed 60 lbs two years ago and have kept it off. But you are right. It takes a permanent change it eating.
I pretty much removed all high carb staples from my house and learned to cook and eat vegetables. No grains, potatoes or rice based foods are allowed in the house.
Husband mewed a bit a first, but as my cooking skills improved with practice and I experimented with new flavors, he has discovered stuff he likes.
I think it’s more eating right for YOUR body. CARBS (bread, oatmeal, etc) make me hungry
I disagree. I have “dieted” several times to get back into a good weight range.
Just about any diet will work. The single most important ingredient in a diet is will power. That’s the same ingredient needed to stop smoking, stop drinking, stop drugs and other excesses/abuses there are.
It’s not so much what you eat, it’s portion control and exercise. No snacking in between meals. As the diet progresses, the body adjusts and you are seldom hungry, and losing weight at about 3 - 4 pounds per week.
Anyone can lose weight with the right attitude.
Disagree. Evidence shows clearly that sustained reduction in caloric intake will result in metabolism tanking. Which is why weight loss stops even though the dieting is going full bore.
The problem is insulin. It regulates when glucose in the blood is stored or burned. Low carb is a good step to reducing it and keeping low, periodic fasts (as little as 16 hours so go to bed and skip breakfast, for example) drive it down too. In this state, two things happen. You burn stored fat for energy and it actually increases metabolism slightly. And that metabolic affect is over the long term, unlike calorie restrictions.
Still a big change in eating. But it works and better than traditional diets IMHO.