Jack is fat.
Jack decides to lose weight.
Jack wants to lose weight fast.
Jack follows popular diet X, eating small amounts of food he doesn’t really like, subjecting himself to a large energy deficit.
Jack loses a notable amount of weight.
Jack starts suffering hunger pangs, both because he’s depriving himself from food he likes, but also because his drastic diet affects his bodily production of the hunger hormones ghrelin and leptin.
Jack is still not at his goal.
Jack’s weight loss stalls.
Jack gets desperate and decreases his food intake even further.
Jack one day has a bad day.
Jack goes home on this bad day, orders a large pizza and eats it. Then he eats a full tub of ice-cream since he’s already off his diet.
Jack eats a bit of junk every day the coming weeks. He can’t fully get back on his diet.
Jack starts gaining back weight.
Jack grows depressed because he’s gaining back weight.
Jack eats more.
Jack has, because of diet-induced changes to his metabolic rate and spontaneous activity levels, gained a noticeable amount of fat mass in a short amount of time.
Jack is back at his starting weight.
Jack is depressed because he gained back 6 months worth of weight loss in 1 1/2 months.
Jack would be even more depressed if he knew he’d lost muscle mass and gained fat mass—a common result of a yo-yo diet—on his weight-loss-and-gain journey.
The diet plan that doesn’t work at all is the one you can’t follow.
That’s all there is to it really.
Unless your diet plan is supposed to have you bypassing the 1st law of thermodynamics and fly to weight-loss-land in a keto-fueled space-ship.
That doesn’t work either.
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