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<blockquote data-quote="alienskin" data-source="post: 2149709" data-attributes="member: 508073"><p>But anecdote doesn't reflect the real world, does it? If indeed most of the people who are failing at your method are not posting here their failure then in the real world it may be 90% failure. You cannot know.</p><p></p><p>Well, you should. Because if one method only has a 10% chance of success, then it's better not to advise about that method, and you have no idea what percentage is the success rate.</p><p></p><p></p><p>That is great and I'm happy for you, but you're not everyone. Other people may have success with other methods. Your insistence that because a method worked for <em>you</em> and therefore is the best is not helpful. Other methods may work better for other people.</p><p></p><p>It's not relevant because I'm just one person. Yes, Taylor did work for me after losing 17kg (now 13kg three years on). I have an A1c of 5.3% (34), and I passed the 75ml glucose test (Doctor: "this isn't supposed to happen"). I don't eat a particularly low-carb diet but I am careful about what I eat, and I do exercise about 5 hours a week.</p><p></p><p>The difference here is that I'm not insisting that Taylor's approach (and btw, it's not a starvation diet - it's a temporary very low-calorie diet where you're getting energy from stored fat) is the only one. He isn't either. But it has the weight of evidence behind it for a particular subset of people.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="alienskin, post: 2149709, member: 508073"] But anecdote doesn't reflect the real world, does it? If indeed most of the people who are failing at your method are not posting here their failure then in the real world it may be 90% failure. You cannot know. Well, you should. Because if one method only has a 10% chance of success, then it's better not to advise about that method, and you have no idea what percentage is the success rate. That is great and I'm happy for you, but you're not everyone. Other people may have success with other methods. Your insistence that because a method worked for [I]you[/I] and therefore is the best is not helpful. Other methods may work better for other people. It's not relevant because I'm just one person. Yes, Taylor did work for me after losing 17kg (now 13kg three years on). I have an A1c of 5.3% (34), and I passed the 75ml glucose test (Doctor: "this isn't supposed to happen"). I don't eat a particularly low-carb diet but I am careful about what I eat, and I do exercise about 5 hours a week. The difference here is that I'm not insisting that Taylor's approach (and btw, it's not a starvation diet - it's a temporary very low-calorie diet where you're getting energy from stored fat) is the only one. He isn't either. But it has the weight of evidence behind it for a particular subset of people. [/QUOTE]
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