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 What is the best diet? (4)

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What is the best diet?

Weight Watchers, South Beach, Atkins?
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I have read a lot of diet books for my job, and I really have come across all kinds of crazy diets. Like the peanut butter diet, the ice cream diet, the low carb, high carb, low fat.. you name it. Even one diet that recommended jumping on a trampoline a few days a week to lose weight.. and the people making all these recommendations are usually not even health experts.

Anyways, at the end I decided that is all about calories in calories out.. so you either workout or eat less or a combination of both. Keeping track is what is hard so any diet that helps you do that is successful. Either if it by points like Weight watchers, or by entering your foods online. Also any diet that will make you lose weight too quickly should be a red flat (ex. Atkins). Weight loss should be gradual (1-2 lbs a week) so that it can really be maintained afterwards, otherwise people just gain it right back.

Fasting is the best diet but it takes great will power because you face the temptation to eat.

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Eating less junk food and exercising for at least a hour a day is better than any diet.

I haven't been on any diets though, so tell me if there's a "miracle cure" that lasts.

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Diets don't work. Instead, change the way you eat and exercise. Everyone is different so you must be inward facing when considering your body image. Arguably (and I'm willing to argue) the best relationship to sustenance is to eat only when genuinely hungry i.e. when painful hunger pangs strike. Eat slowly so your body has time to send 'I'm full' signals to your brain. Take lots of exercise - the more the better. Adhere to these principles and even so-called junk food becomes good food.