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View submission: Does Slimming World make sense?
Ding ding ding ding ding. This whole concept of dieting is the problem. The mentality has to be permanent lifestyle changes not short-term, very restrictive dieting just to go back to how you ate before. It inevitably leads to yo-yoing in weight. Even if you are successful at losing weight with SW, you will put it back on. If you are successful it's usually too drastic to be sustainable. Long-term weight loss is a slow process requiring permanent changes to your diet and changing your relationship with food not going on a temporary diet. It's very well studied that the vast majority of people that go on a "diet" to lose weight put it back on.
Comment by Postik123 at 27/01/2025 at 11:53 UTC
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It's worse than just putting the weight back on. The average person goes on a crash diet but doesn't do any resistance training/exercise. So when they lose weight they lose both fat and muscle.
Then when they resume their normal eating habits they put the fat back on, and not the muscle (again, no resistance exercise).
The end result is that over a log period of time they're actually just getting fatter and fatter.