Thread: Most dieters end up gaining weight

reading this kinda makes me feel determined to push myself - best of luck to you all !!

I agree Worried-Chick. Everyone's speaking a lot of common sense here. I have lost and regained varying amounts of weight on many different 'diets' but am not giving up!! I love the quote on Jim's signature as I'm a teacher and am currently reading Denis Avey's 'The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz'. Just thought I'd randomly share that! x

Saying 'diet' is just a shortened form of 'slimming diet', or 'weight loss diet', or in the USA, 'reducing diet', etc. Over the years it has come to be immediately understood in the slimming sense unless specifically applied to animals or one's diet - food consumed - in general.

Finding the right diet for US, as individuals, is, I believe, what makes the difference. Atkins for example ticks all the boxes except fast weight loss. And for those of us sensitive to carbs (I sure am!) Atkins also offers the perfect maintenance plan. It's a continuum from Induction (Phase One) to Maintenance (Phase Four), all carefully planned and laid-out for us in the books and on the Atkins Community site.

Slimmers are not known for their patience. We hate being fat so we want the fastest results humanly possible. This generally means using a VLCD. Once we get used to the sheer speed of VLCD losses it can be difficult to impossible to 'settle' for the much slower losses of not only Atkins but also WW, SW, Rosemary Conley, etc.

What makes Atkins special is that it offers a healthy, uncomplicated way of eating and living that allows us to eat real food in moderate portions. All the way to maintenance and indeed for the rest of our lives. That doesn't mean that it is always easy to stick to! We are carb addicts and the old cravings will, on occasion, hit very hard. But even if we fall we can simply get up again, dust ourselves off, and get back on the Atkins wagon.

This is why Jim and others have lost so much weight and kept it off. Hard work, determination, and Atkins principles!

Originally Posted by girlygirl1

Saying 'diet' is just a shortened form of 'slimming diet', or 'weight loss diet', or in the USA, 'reducing diet', etc. Over the years it has come to be immediately understood in the slimming sense unless specifically applied to animals or one's diet - food consumed - in general.

Finding the right diet for US, as individuals, is, I believe, what makes the difference. Atkins for example ticks all the boxes except fast weight loss. And for those of us sensitive to carbs (I sure am!) Atkins also offers the perfect maintenance plan. It's a continuum from Induction (Phase One) to Maintenance (Phase Four), all carefully planned and laid-out for us in the books and on the Atkins Community site.

Slimmers are not known for their patience. We hate being fat so we want the fastest results humanly possible. This generally means using a VLCD. Once we get used to the sheer speed of VLCD losses it can be difficult to impossible to 'settle' for the much slower losses of not only Atkins but also WW, SW, Rosemary Conley, etc.

What makes Atkins special is that it offers a healthy, uncomplicated way of eating and living that allows us to eat real food in moderate portions. All the way to maintenance and indeed for the rest of our lives. That doesn't mean that it is always easy to stick to! We are carb addicts and the old cravings will, on occasion, hit very hard. But even if we fall we can simply get up again, dust ourselves off, and get back on the Atkins wagon.

This is why Jim and others have lost so much weight and kept it off. Hard work, determination, and Atkins principles!

True words. It's easy to get in to a negative cycle and the article ultimately could be read as a bit depressing - that there is no point losing weight as you'll only gain it again. I certainly don't subscribe to that theory and agree with you girlygirl - you have to find what works for you. For me it's SW. It's the only plan I've ever tried that I can actually see myself following for the rest of my life and that doesn't leave me feeling deprived or hungry. The best of luck to everyone on their weight loss journeys xxx

I thought the figures would be higher tbh, but some people who say have a baby and then go on a diet to lose the baby weight they naturally gained, are they counted as dieters too and taken into consideration? They probably would be the ones who didnt regain.

Cos I see that as different to someone who has had a lifelong weight problem. This type I see as someone who has to be concious of being on a diet for the rest of their lives, ie me!