| worldwide hippies: "Unfortunately, weight-loss clubs such as Weight Watchers and Slimming World are part of the problem in that dieting only contributes to weight gain. It doesn’t matter which approach the slimming club takes—be it a point system, a “healthy lifestyle” change or using pre-packaged foods or supplements—clients usually lose weight in the beginning. But this initial weight loss is deceiving because after the diet, often a month or so, most people will regain most of the weight they lost. More seriously, within 4 to 5 years 95% will gain back the lost weight and one-third to two-thirds of their clients ultimately end up being fatter than their pre-diet weight. They don’t help the individual understand their appetite, how to eat with their hunger, how to recognise fullness and not override it"
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To the usual statement that there is no one way, I say there is one way. Calories in-calories out. Most of what we pay for comes from businesses created to profit by strategies of obfuscation. Genet understood this. Mostly we don't, at least at a conscious level.
Charles Sanders Peirce - Thinking in Threes
