Unless you follow the diet to the maximum - eat only compatible food and skip incompatible (according to the chosen diet), calculate calories every single day. In my case keto diet worked the miracle. Maybe other people could be successful with other, different diets. But it does work if done properly. Same with exercise. Random exercise can be just as bad as restricting calories. Exercise should be systematic and balanced, as well as a diet.
Re:Once an Addict, Always an Addict?
by SamoyedFurFluff on Sunday August 08, 2021 @10:24AM
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Keeping track of macronutrients and carb counting sounds significantly harder than “just eat less” and I think bolsters the argument that it may in fact be hard to lose weight.
One problem is that calorie restriction itself is modifying how your body works. So, the weight lost in diet is typically gained back super quickly. And if you repeat the cycle, your body also adjusts by spending less calories.
The other problem is that it just lowering calories easily leads to nutritional deficiency of some sort. Which leads to feeling bad all the time, being tired and passive, unable to perform as previously. So the diet will eventually fail for that reason - because you will be more dysfunctional and breaking it will paradoxically make you more functional.