Dieters tend to adhere strictly to their diet in the beginning, but quickly begin to revert to old habits, says Hall. By about six months, dieters have often reached their lowest weight but are back to consuming nearly as many calories as they did before they started dieting. From there, they start putting the weight back on
So the dieting works, as long as people stay on the diet. Eating less is still a reliable way to weigh less. The hard part is keeping it up.
Edit: proper emphasis - "that education is" => "that education alone"
Carbohydrates are broken down into sugar during digestion. Sugar causes a hormone called insulin to be released by the pancreas. Insulin causes the body to store energy as fat. Therefore, carbohydrates cause your body to store fat. It's that simple.
Americans are obese because of carbohydrates, not willpower. As someone who never got to know his grandfather because of obesity, I have very little patience for the "calories-in, calories-out" myth.
Eat fat.
Never mind that in order to maintain that weight as a meatwall, I'd have to wolf down six whole fried chickens a day and knock down hardwood trees with bare-knuckle punches. Maintaining that weight as a fatblob is as easy as eating some candy and drinking a liter or two of soda pop in front of the TV.
As a result, the conversation is too often how to turn a 150kg fatty into a 100kg fatty, rather than turning a 150kg fatty into a 150kg liftbro, and then letting the adiposity problem take care of itself.
I don't have a problem with the number on my bathroom scale. My problem is that I don't have action-hero movie-star abs. And maybe also some fear of adiposity-correlated diseases, like diabetes or atherosclerosis.
I would rather rearrange my life in such a way that becoming more unhealthy is the thing that requires the constant upkeep of unyielding willpower, rather than the other way around. That's why diets fail. The biochemical feedback loops between gut and brain make it progressively more difficult to lose more fat and not replenish it at the very first opportunity--which is always, because western society is saturated with cheap, calorie-dense foods. The hard part shouldn't be keeping it up; it should be harder to go back. And that requires changing the brain, particularly in the limbic system. Calorie restriction is, to the primitive parts of the brain back behind the prefrontal cortex, a punishment to be avoided.
Perhaps exercise equipment that dispenses gratis cocaine whenever you break a previous personal workout record? What could go wrong?~
It's not like we wake up one day and suddenly decided we want to be fat and eat a lot more calories.
If not on a "diet", are prone to overeating, weight gain and subsequent health problems.
And possibly died.