"Diet" is a dirty word. Eating for your health is a better approach, and it WORKS. Most diets work on the concept of deprivation. Low-fat, deprives you of fats, many of which are essential to good health--even (especially, in many cases) the ones that are "bad for you" such as saturated fats. Low-carb/Keto deprives you of carbohydrates which are, again, essential in our diets. The key is balance. Get balance, and your diet works to support a healthy body, naturally, because you are providing every cell with the raw materials to thrive.

It's not an answer to your question, but generally speaking, unless the diet is permanant, you'll gain the weight back when you slack from it, assuming your exercise routine stays the same. My experience is to change your eating habits permanently. Example: No red meat. I lost 20 lbs. with that change alone, and I've lost a lot more than that by giving up other fatty/high calorie foods.

Best of luck.

I think our world is overly obsessed with the obesity issue. I know people are getting fatter, but I'm SO over it. Everybody has their opinion about diets and you know what they say about "opinions". I have always eaten whatever I want in moderation and I think that's where a lot of people run into problems. Instead of a bag of chips, eat a handful and put them away. We have food all around us, at our fingertips, but just because it's there, doesn't mean control goes out the window....just use common sense!

Consume less than you burn and you will lose weight, the work or not work is in the individual.

I think most "diets" are doomed to fail simply because they aren't really balanced and don't address balanced nutritional needs of our bodies. If you want ot lose weight, you have to exercise. You can starve yourself thin, but it isnt' healthy and you will regain the weight. However, exercise is only part of it. You need to eat nutritiously. That means aboid all processed foods and eat foods in their mos tnatural state. Processed foods pretty much has the nutrition processed out of them, but retains the calories. Calorie rich goods with little or no nutritional value are called "empty calories". Your body craves nutrients, not calories. We evolved to crave tastes whioch in our past, before the age of agrivulture provided nutrients to our bodies. Thsoe tastes are sugar, salt and fat. Processed foods provide those tastes, but nto hte nutrients we woudl get if we got those same tastes form natural foods. East a wide varity of natural foods and exercies and you will lose weight, if tha tis your goal. Exercise is needede because if you stored fat, that is stored energy that neds to be furned off. If yu eat nutritiously, you will automatically be eatign fewer calories. Vegetarians and vegans have to eat more in quantity to get enough calories. That line aloen shoudl give you a clue on how to lose weight in a healthy way.

Vegetarian men live an average of 9.5 years longer than their meat-eating counterparts and vegetarian women an average of 6.1 years longer. In studies, carnivores had the highest body weight for their age and vegans the lowest (an average of 30 pounds lighter), with vegetarians and semi-vegetarians falling in between. [livestrong.com]??

Eat less and do more and you will lose weight

Dieting can work. The stats show most diets are unsuccesful. But, the more often you try, the more likely you are to succeed. We are addicted to food. When you are born, you learn to like what you are fed. Many of us will not change our diet, because we do not eat things we don't like. However, if we eat a thing we don't like, we will learn to like it, and perhaps favor it. Similarly, if we stop eating something, we will break the habit and our taste for it. For example, I once loved cheeseburgers. But decided they were too much fat, and stopped. Several years later I took a bite of a cheeseburger, and felt like I was eating lard. The fat was awful. I've not had a bit of one since. People who eat the Mediterain diet live longer than people who eat most other diets; BTW the Japanese have a similar diet, and live long productive lives. Choose a diet known to be good for people if you intend to diet. I find that a salad a day keeps the hunger away. My wife says the same. A meat and potato diet doesn't satisfy as long as a big salad with green, yellow, blue, and red colors. I've lost more than 80 lbs, and still getting smaller. Good luck, it isn't easy.

I've dieted a few times in my life. They all follow the same cycle. 1) Religiously stick to the regime, and achieve success. Dropping a good amount of weight in the process. 2) Religiously stick to the regime, and my weight stays the same. 3) Start to become disillusioned. Begin breaking the rules here and there. Weight starts to creep back up. 4) Say 'stuff this for a game of soldiers', give up on the diet completely, and end up back at my original weight. The fact that I always end up around the same weight (about 250lbs, getting down to around 210 before things start to go wrong) I honestly believe that's my body's natural equilibrium. I've made peace with my sexuality, gender identity and weight. I just wish other people, who can see that the first two are no longer legitimate targets for hatred, could get their heads around the fact that the third shouldn't be, either.

Well, I never dieted, but I have changed my relationship with food. It was my drug of choice and caused me to balloon up to 300 lbs., where I stayed for many years.. I no longer use food as an emotional salve, and I've dropped about 75 lbs. in two years... Unfortunately, most diets, while they may initially help take the weight off, don't address lifestyle changes that help keep the weight down long-term, nor the psychological changes you go through when you find yourself in a new body... I still have to be very mindful of what and how I eat, and would like to still lose another 50-75 lbs or so. The good thing is that even with the weight I've lost, I'm more encouraged to looking at more excercise to incorporate into an overall healthier lifestyle.

It all is about how you stick to it, and how our bodies adapt. For my best friends keto isn't a diet but a lifestyle (one they seem to be pushing like religion sheesh) but for me, any diet I try I fail. I did a juice diet for 5 months without losing a single pound. I did the phentramine diet, under strict doctor monitoring and again, did not lose any weight. (This is all on top of daily exercise) The only thing that has actually worked for me is my diabetes medication ironically. Now I'm losing pounds a day. It's lovely

I've lost around 80 lbs by cutting bread,pasta and refined sugar out of my diet, also yoga and hitting the gym(sometimes).

I try to think of "diet" as the way I eat and what I eat day to day. Awareness is a big help. I read labels and count calories when my weight seems to creep up. Stay away from sugar and a lot of bad fats, (learn which is which), and processed foods.Most health insurance have free programs to help stay slim and fit. Stay active and busy and plan ahead foodwise. Crash diets and Fad diets don't work well, but they do make a lot of money for a few people. Being Agnostics, we should believe in the science of nutrition and metabolism, calories in vs out. It works.

It is far better, to eat mostly foods that you enjoy, from the fruits and vegetables, then small amts of meats. The most important part...even then is volume. Large servings of any foods, will not keep weight off (unless you are rare person, with revived-up metabolism). Plus, your stomach will be stretched, needing bigger portions! If your portions are kept small (within reason), your stomach will adjust and you will not experience the same hunger as when you stomach is larger.