Re: Getting fit for 2019 - Are you going to?
Originally Posted by
ruthio
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I don't agree that going on a diet is a waste of time.
Not if it leads you along the road of looking carefully at what you eat and being more discerning about your food choices.
Plus, if and when those first pounds start to drop off you may be so encouraged that you actually stick to the new regime.
Obviously I'm not including daft crazy gloop mess kind of diets!
I hear what you are saying Ruthio but the evidence suggests that many people don't look carefully at their food choices and that any weight they lose is put back on with more besides.
I think in many cases dieters use the diet or slimming club leader as a kind of lazy tutor. Instead of the person properly educating themself in regards to what are good and bad foods and how they combine, they just give the problem to someone else to sort and so they just follow recipes they have been given.
An example would be a Slimming World suggested recipe for a pasta. It has an ingredient of "a jar of passata" but makes absolutely no attempt to ask the dieter to check the jar for sugar content. As a result dieters will likely just pick up any old jar and then will be creating a sugary pasta which will get them nowhere.
The other issue that arises from your latter comment of that most diets result in a few pounds being shed pretty quickly which is usually water loss. Most dieters know full well that this early weight loss quickly plateaus and subsequent weight is hard to shift and losing the odd 1/2 lb isn't then very encouraging when people are looking to lose stones.
I wish there were clubs that genuinely educated people about foods, proper nutrition advice, but that wouldn't make for a very profitable business model as people would attend once and then should never need to come back. Slimming clubs work on a model of repeating customers.