Re: Getting fit for 2019 - Are you going to?
Originally Posted by
Tachyon
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Diets DO. People don't. Diet merely means "a change of diet" and if you change it successfully in the long term, it will work. Weak people set themselves up to fail. Brutal, but there you go.
As for your opinion that they do not work, "period", well, having lost between 8 and 9 stone and kept it off for the last three or four years, I think your opinion is worthless. You really need to know what you are talking about before you are qualified to have an opinion.
Not unless, of course, it was the Weight-Loss Fairy waving her wand that did it.
Hi Tachyon
Ignoring the silly element of this post all you are basically doing is playing with English terminology as another poster did earlier in the thread.
The term "going on a diet" for the vast majority of people means a TEMPORARY eating regime with the aim of losing weight. It is THOSE diets, specifically those that I maintain do not work.
It's just crass to try lumping that well established terminology in with "diet" being defined as a permanent eating style such as a gluten free diet or vegan diet.
The 2 terms are clearly very different and most sensible people know exactly when a discussion is referring to the temporary "going on a diet" vs when it is referring to the other definition.
On a personal basis, when I change my eating habits permanently, such as deciding to cut out sugar, I don't refer to that in terms of a "diet". I don't think of myself as being on a "sugar-free diet". It is a life change and decision to stop buying sugar and putting it in drinks.
We can make generic statements such as "I have a healthy sugar free diet" where "diet" means an overall permanent eating style. I would not make the statement "I am on a sugar-free diet" which implies a temporary eating change.
I don't honestly understand why some people struggle with the different definitions nor why there is a need to bring it up.
Everybody understands what is meant and implied by the statement "going on a diet"
Those diets don't work.
A permanent change to eating habits is always what is needed and is the only way to truly and permanently lose weight. We need better life diets. What we don't need is to go on "diets".