If you’re aiming for fat loss, choose a diet with a structure that works best for you and your lifestyle. There is so much information out there around fad diets; which one is the most effective, which one has magic powers, and on. It can be really confusing to wade through everything out there. What’s more important in choosing a diet is to choose one that allows you to adhere to a calorie deficit long enough to see results. ⁣
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It isn’t the name of the diet or its complex rules that cause success. It’s not assigning foods as “good or bad” and eliminating a whole macronutrient that leads to success. It’s your commitment, hard work, consistency, and your willingness to adhere to it long enough to keep you in a calorie deficit to see results. ⁣
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Don’t put a discount on your hard work and give all the credit to the name of the diet. Celebrate yourself and encourage other people to choose a diet that works best for them!⁣
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All diets CAN work; I’m not here to bash any, but just say adherence is key. It’s simple, but not easy!⁣
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Sure, you can drastically cut your calorie intake to 800 calories/day by eating a container of fat free cottage cheese and a chicken breast a day or whatever, but how long is that going to last the average person?⁣
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As for the relentless diet pushers who act like their diet is superior to others:⁣
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Your diet isn’t special. The diet you are following isn’t magic and there is nothing superior about it over other diets. It’s not a special snowflake, and it generally works based on the same mechanism as other diets when it comes to shedding lbs. What really matters is being in a calorie deficit long enough to yield sufficient weight loss. Yes, go ahead and cite a scientific study that shows some minuscule advantage one diet has over another. The truth is, if researchers have to jump through hoops to find any significant benefit of one diet over others when it comes to weight loss, then there probably isn’t a huge benefit to it over just being in a calorie deficit with a balanced macronutrient profile. Not only that, but you probably aren’t following the diet strict enough to match the intricate conditions of the research you are citing.

One final note on diets: If you plan on beginning any diet, it’s always best to check in with your doctor to establish a health baseline and discuss diet options. They can work with you to look at factors such as blood pressure, cholesterol, liver enzymes, blood sugar, and any history of illness. I’m going to go out on a limb here, but It’s probably a bad idea for someone with chronically high cholesterol and a family history of heart disease to be sucking down steaks and bacon on the Keto diet for 6 months.