> 95% of people who diet gain that weight back and more within 1-5 years.
This keeps being touted again and again as if it's some grand criticism of diets. Obviously if you stop following a diet, its results will stop applying to you. If you follow a diet that restricts your calories and causes you to lose weight, and you then stop following the diet and eat whatever you ate earlier, of course you will gain back your weight.
Healthy eating is a lifestyle decision and a lifestyle change. You have to understand what your diet was trying to achieve, and then try to apply similar concepts to your general everyday life.
This keeps being touted again and again as if it's some grand criticism of diets. Obviously if you stop following a diet, its results will stop applying to you. If you follow a diet that restricts your calories and causes you to lose weight, and you then stop following the diet and eat whatever you ate earlier, of course you will gain back your weight.
Healthy eating is a lifestyle decision and a lifestyle change. You have to understand what your diet was trying to achieve, and then try to apply similar concepts to your general everyday life.