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Idk but don't you gain all the weight back because you go BACK to eating unhealthy, not because the diet didn't work.
People act like its an automatic thing. You gain weight back because the diet doesn't work for you, not because the diet doesn't work.
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I guess it all depends on how you define "work". Does the diet "work" if you lose weight but cannot sustain the lifestyle the diet requires (e.g. - eating nothing but grapefruit or cabbage soup or never touching another carb again ever)?
Or does the diet "work" if it allows you to control your eating and your weight for a lifetime?
IMO, the first diet doesn't "work". Not "it doesn't work for me" ... it plain doesn't work. Even though it might provide the immediate weight loss, it's not sustainable and therefore that diet was ultimately a failure.
In other words, if you go BACK to eating unhealthy, then the diet you were on didn't work - it didn't provide a reasonable, sustainable method of losing and then maintaining.
I guess it just depends on how you want to look at it. I am determined to never weigh what I used to ... ever again in my life. So for me a diet that doesn't make real changes in my life (vs. a diet that promises a quick fix) ... doesn't work.
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