To think that people who say diets don’t work aren’t really trying

Gosh, I only gained 2 stone total during my pregnancies, my babies were all 9lb plus so I didn’t have 2 stones to lose after having them

in other words, you clearly don’t have the experience of being long term overweight, or of menopause related weight gain or stressors in your life that make “willpower” something that is not possible n your radar (unless it’s willpower to make it through the day when your entire being is telling you that the world would be a better place without you)

Diets fuck up your relationship with food. Willpower doesn’t last forever and 90%+ of people who lose weight go on to regain it. Even bariatric surgery only has a success rate (at the 5year mark) of between 50-70%

With respect my experience of thin women is an iron clad will of steel and saying no to cake, biscuits, snacks and following a rigid diet. Like PoW, VB etc.

Why not eat less and move more, no accounting for genetics,hormones, anxiety, depression, trauma etc,etc. I agree with other ppl on here apply for health minister your so enlightening. 😂

No, I don't think you're correct because some people have to eat a lot less than others to lose weight, because they lost in the metabolism lottery, therefore they have to 'try' a lot harder. Life on 800 calories a day is very miserable.

Nothing the matter with upsetting a few people.

Statistically you’re likely to regain what you lose plus more. But well done enjoy your moral high ground… for now

I always thought "diets don't work" meant fad diets, i.e., Paleo, keto, low carb, etc. Eating fewer calories than you burn, or the same number if you're trying to maintain your weight, is just how you're supposed to eat.

Also, it's lose.

Oooh well done you.

Here's your gold star for being so much better than the other fatties ⭐️

report back in 6 and 12 months OP

Tell me you aren’t post-menopausal, without etc etc.

Also why did you put on so much weight in pregnancy? I didn’t, so nobody should. That, in your world view, is how it works, right?

People only have a certain amount of will power and lots of things in life can draw down your reserves of will power - being stressed on other things

you can I suspect increase will power but it may be mostly set in childhood and some people just have very low levels of will power

diets are hard and anyone who succeeds is doing amazingly

Oh shit! This is where we’ve all been going wrong! Thanks OP for your wisdom.

Have you been slim apart from when you were pregnant?

It's interesting, because I only put on a stone when I was pregnant, and it was gone the week after I'd given birth because it was all blood and baby - I didn't put on any fat at all. Does that mean that you just didn't try not to put on too much weight when you were pregnant? Or perhaps does it mean that we're all different and find different things easy/hard?

Here's the interesting thing: When I was pregnant, I felt the same way about food that I do now I'm on the jabs. I ate what I needed and nothing more. No willpower required. Something about the hormones I guess, that's replicated by the jabs.

I've been obese my whole life - literally. Chubby toddler, fat teen, fat adult. And due to my height, I have to eat under 1000cals to lose weight - even when walking for hours/day like when I was at school or when the kids were young. I have no health issues. This is just how my body is - I put on any mass easily (muscle too - when I go to the gym I go up weights very quickly)

Sure - eat less, move more. But without the jabs (or a baby growing in me) I have no feedback. I literally have to manually count every single calorie - which is an insane amount of effort to add on when you're already eating less than you need, and trying to spend more time exercising.

Well done you for losing a stone. I'm sure it was tough, but you understand that for other people it's harder still? That we're not all the same?

Rubbish, of course it does. Honestly, that’s just a cop out.

What is the point of your post? Just making sure we know how much better you are at losing weight than everyone else.

Literally EVERYONE knows that eating less calories than you expend will result in weight loss. You're really not some profound weight loss guru to point that out.

When people say "diets don't work" it's because they are an absolute nightmare to stick to and the statistical fact that, regardless of how you lose weight, there's an 80-95% chance of you putting it back on again.

You’re going to get a lot of stick on here but broadly I see where you’re coming from. I think people don’t realise how little they have to eat and how much hunger they will have to push past to lose the weight. It’s a hard thing to accept.

It is that simple. You are 💯 right.
Personally I use the 5:2 diet now and it never fails me.
I’ve done the extra exercise diet three and it’s worked, in fact I lost more than I intended.
In younger days I just used to eat less for a few months and soon lost it.
It’s not hard, I refuse to buy new clothes.

Totally get what you mean. I’ve been honestly tracking for a couple of months to see where I’m going wrong and I am massively over eating, even on days when I thought I was eating very healthy. You’re right, it’s the things like condiments, eyeballing amounts, the odd glug of olive oil. Until you’ve honestly tracked (my target is to stick to 2000 to start with as this is my maintenance) I don’t think people realise they’re not actually on a diet

My weight fell off after having a baby. Breastfeeding, stress and walking a fussy baby round town for 4 hours a day did it. That's not real life, or your normal state of being.

"Dieting" doesn't work. If you want to keep it off for life you have commit to a forever lifestyle change and that is daunting as hell so I completely understand why it's not achievable for everyone. I'm 6 months into running and cutting down on alcohol/crisps while adding protein and more veg, which is working, but sometimes when I think about 40 more years of watching what I eat and exercising a few times a week I want to cry!

And yet when people actually study the subject they discover that your weight is about 80% dictated by genetics....

It's well known that the fatter you are the harder it is to stay at a healthy bmi, your body fights it. You have to eat less then someone who has never been overweight...permanently to maintain it.

But sure it's easy and half the population is feckless, lazy and dumb...despite holding down responsible full time jobs, running households, running businesses and otherwise living highly successful, productive lives.

Oh I promise you that I’ve lost weight in diets… lots of times. In fact the last post I read from another successful dieter was marvelling at her weight loss on 1200 calories with intermittent fasting AND cutting out sugar. Oh how I 😂 at that. Good luck to you that’s what I say. See you in the queue for Mounjaro in 20 years.

Science states time and a time again it’s calories in vs calories out

Does it @amijumping? Plenty of scientists would take issue with that statement these days.

Well done you for losing the weight. But please don’t assume that other people aren’t doing it ‘properly’. If losing weight was a simple matter, we wouldn’t have such an obesity crisis, would we?

I’m assuming from your OP that a) you’re relatively young and b) this is the first time you’ve had to worry about losing weight.

As PP have said - come back in a year’s time and tell us that you’ve managed to maintain your loss.

I suspect this is going to turn into another weight loss injection bashing thread.

Well of course if you are on a diet permanently then you'll lose weight. But diets aren't meant to be permanent. That's why they don't work.

I don't know what point you're trying to make. Shaming people who use WLI or people who lack 'willpower'? Food addiction is real and connected heavily to emotions for many people.

Slimming clubs like WW or SW have a vested interest in keeping you coming back, so in many ways their diets don't work unless you adhere to it very rigidly. It's a money making industry.

There have been many scientific studies that prove 'diets' don't work long term. I don't see why you'd disregard them?