Why Do People Make Dieting So Complicated?

[dave50]

Counting points, fad diets of all kinds. All you have to do is restrict your food intake to lean meat, fish, vegetables, salad with absolute minimum carbs and nothing sweet. That's all you have to do, I've lost 7 pounds in three weeks and that's with no exercise.

[Retrochic]

you should write a book dave you'll make a fortune ;-)

[Maydup]

What did you have for breakfast dave?

[andy-hughes]

The entire dieting industry, massive as it is, relies purely on human nature.

Weight loss, as you so simply advise, is only a matter of adjusting your type and volume of intake.

Sadly that is not always a pleasant experience, so you can find thousands of not millions of supposed ways to avoid the unpleasant aspects of denial and lifestyle change that will result in sustained and sustainable weight loss.

If you say to someone, dieting involves self-discipline and a degree of denial and misery but ..... with my system I can avoid all that downside stuff ... then you have an audience, and a market, and hey presto, a diet industry.

Never underestimate the willingness of the public to pay someone to pretend to take away the unpleasant aspects of life.

[ummmm]

Some diets do work. Some are intended for quick weight loss just because someone needs surgery. Like the cabbage soup diet. Then it goes viral and everyone tries it....and then fails.

[dave50]

I had a poached egg on a slice of lightly buttered toast for breakfast.

[Daffy6543]

I couldn't eat any less than I do now without starving to death. I have 4-6 rounds of toast and 2-3 bananas a day along with numerous cups of coffee. My weight never goes down from around 9st 4lb regardless of activity levels.

[Booldawg]

It doesn't have to be rocket science; its only made rocket science to appeal to dieters who don't have the discipline to stick to whatever their last failed attempt was.

[Old_Geezer]

Lucky you. Hope it was more than water.

Diets can be complicated as different ones are found easy or hard by different people. One needs to feel happy on the chosen diet or one will not stick with it. And to be useful long term it needs to be something one can incorporate into one's whole life without feeling hard done by. Or it'll all go back on again afterwards.

[EcclesCake]

I'm often intrigued by some of the posts on here and comments from friends regarding dieting.

It surprises me the number of people who feel the need to cut out all frying, butter, cheese, carbs, chocolate etc rather than going for an all things in moderation diet. To my mind cutting out aspects of your diet that you enjoy is likely to result in cravings, not a positive mindset when you are wanting to lose weight.

Maybe I don't have the addictive need for some foods, unlike Mr Cake who believes a tube of Pringles is 'a portion'......he is as skinny as a rake though despite his pringle habit.

I think the more important question you need to ask yourself Dave is how are you going to sustain this weightloss and are you going to add any exercise to your regime?

[dave50]

Well Eccles, I am going to carry on as I am doing until I reach my desired weight. I'm getting used to it now, yes I do get hungry but when I do i just focus how I will feel and look when I achieve my goal, the main thing is I dont want to be a beached whale on the beach in the summer! So far i am doing ok. It's not been a bad as I thought it was going to be, so far...

[Daffy6543]

What did you weigh before you started Dave? I know heavier people tend to lose weight very quickly when changing their eating habits (at first), then it tends to plateau and the loss slows or even stops once the body becomes used to the new diet.

[ummmm]

A diet is a change of lifestyle....forever.

[Fanriffic]

I always find that when it comes to diets the message is always the same:

"Eat less, move more."

Simples, as the meerkat says.

[Old_Geezer]

But that is only half the issue. It is too simplistic. Staying feeling satisfied instead of being distracted all day continually wanting more; is another issue. Knowing why one feels that way, and how one can combat it; otherwise one will give up.

[Hopkirk]

3 bananas Daffy?

They are quite full of sugars.

[janbee]

No carbs, lots of protein. !