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<blockquote data-quote="Brunneria" data-source="post: 1892853" data-attributes="member: 41816"><p>So says everyone <em><strong>ever </strong></em>who is starting a diet. Even when it is their 6th time round the merry-go-round.</p><p></p><p>It is just human nature to think that <strong><em>this</em></strong> time, <strong><em>this </em></strong>diet, <strong><em>this </em></strong>year, things will be different, and <strong><em>this </em></strong>time I will make long term changes that will allow it all to work perfectly and I <strong><em>will </em></strong>have a new life, all slim and sleek and under control and <strong><em>everything</em></strong>.</p><p></p><p>Trouble is, because we are all human, we are also humanly fallible, and the fundamental flaw isn't the fact that the diet doesn't work, or that we don't work hard enough, or anything else. It is that our own bodies have a hormone system that will, sooner or later, trump any will power we can throw at it. Unless we choose a way of eating that aligns with and complements our hormones, we will regain the weight, or lead a strange food half life of constant control, number crunching, and mild obsession. And even then, the odds are that one day we will find ourselves with an extra tyre all over again. </p><p></p><p>As you can tell, I subscribe to the <strong><em>diets don't work</em></strong> thinking, because I have over the last few decades seen that to be the case. In myself and others. Anyone who thinks a diet works because the weight comes off, and stays off for an arbitrary number of months, is underestimating their own body's capacity to blindside them.</p><p></p><p>Adopting reasonable, sustainable, hormonally harmonious lifestyle changes is, to me, the only way to go.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brunneria, post: 1892853, member: 41816"] So says everyone [I][B]ever [/B][/I]who is starting a diet. Even when it is their 6th time round the merry-go-round. It is just human nature to think that [B][I]this[/I][/B] time, [B][I]this [/I][/B]diet, [B][I]this [/I][/B]year, things will be different, and [B][I]this [/I][/B]time I will make long term changes that will allow it all to work perfectly and I [B][I]will [/I][/B]have a new life, all slim and sleek and under control and [B][I]everything[/I][/B]. Trouble is, because we are all human, we are also humanly fallible, and the fundamental flaw isn't the fact that the diet doesn't work, or that we don't work hard enough, or anything else. It is that our own bodies have a hormone system that will, sooner or later, trump any will power we can throw at it. Unless we choose a way of eating that aligns with and complements our hormones, we will regain the weight, or lead a strange food half life of constant control, number crunching, and mild obsession. And even then, the odds are that one day we will find ourselves with an extra tyre all over again. As you can tell, I subscribe to the [B][I]diets don't work[/I][/B] thinking, because I have over the last few decades seen that to be the case. In myself and others. Anyone who thinks a diet works because the weight comes off, and stays off for an arbitrary number of months, is underestimating their own body's capacity to blindside them. Adopting reasonable, sustainable, hormonally harmonious lifestyle changes is, to me, the only way to go. [/QUOTE]
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