SkyHighWhy - thanks very interesting. I'm glad you went to that seminar, it sounds like some good information was presented.
All diets advocate not to eat sugar and have fatty foods in moderation. Who ever said all diets are the same, I'm coming to that conclusion. I also understand that the diet industry is worth billions of pounds every year, yet every year people get fatter.
I read a newspaper article recently about a bloke who tried 10 diets in fifty days. Cabbage soup diet, Atkins etc etc. Overall he lost 33lbs. He says the diet he lost the most weight on was the NHS website - no calorie counting just moderation in what he ate.
I feel dieters get conned, well with regard to commercial diets anyway. This is because unfortunately, some overweight people believe in magic when it comes to weight loss.
No commercial diet will tell you that dieting, exercise and weight loss is a hard slog and you need inner reserves of strength to continue for long enough to lose weight and keep it off.
Anyone else think that people who lose weight successfully i.e. get to their goal weight just get abandoned by the diet organisation ? There's just not the motivation once they get to goal. There's maintenance weight plans but the excitement is about losing weight.
Being cynical, do the diet organisations just wait for people to relapse and come back to a commercial diet plan when the weight inevitably comes off. Once you've shown yourself up for being human.