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Do you think that if you lose weight quickly you are more likely to put it on quickly again afterwards?
I know losing it fast probably means that you don't address whatever issues have made you put on weight to start with. I get into a bubble where I can block out all normal eating and stick to a diet well. Obviously then when I stop I'm just back to my old ways.
I'm trying a new approach which involves the bubble ( I'm doing Jane Plan) for one month but during that time I'm having a few meals off and more importantly I'm thinking through what my issues are and ways to address them. I will want to lose more weight than I can in a month but I want to do it slowly and carefully after a kick-start.
My question is: will something happen to my body during the month that means that it will be very hard to lose if I start eating more at the end of that month, even if I'm still in a calorie deficit?

I don't think there is any scientifically proven physiological reason why 'crash' dieting leads to increased weight loss, although I agree with you that there probably are psychological and practical reasons why this tends to be the case (and indeed with some more traditional longer term diets like SW and WW).

I think in fact the NHS is now revising its position on 'crash diets' as things like the Fast 800 are showing a good impact on things like T2 diabetes.

So if your approach works for you then why not? My opinion is that the only thing that 'works' long term for weight maintenance is a 'forever' change in eating and attitude to food which it sounds like you are working on anyway and if a kick start helps you then knock yourself out!

Thank you maxelly. I hope you're right. I'll look up that 800 diet you mention i don't know that one.

I find it much harder to change attitudes to food than to diet like so many. That's really where I need to focus my efforts. I've been a yo-yo dieter for40 years and I'm bored sick of it.

I think quick losses usually mean you are changing something drastic and typically isn't sustainable long term.

It's only since reading books on why dieting doesn't work and recognising why I yo-yo from diet to diet did it all make sense.

Can you recommend any books WhoAteMyNuts?

Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole is good and I had several light bulb moments when I read about what type of dieter I was and how it usually fails.

I’m sure you’ll be absolutely fine doing things this way. But for successful long term weight loss you do need something that is sustainable and that is where many of these diets fail.

I’ve been calorie counting for five months now. It’s boring, but it works. It’s made me very aware of how many calories there are in different foods and helped me tweak my diet so that it’s now much more healthy, tasty and filling.

I think it’s much harder to build up those kind of “skills” with more extreme diets. So I guess it’s harder to keep the weight off as it’s a diet, rather than a change in lifestyle, so people just revert back to what they used to do once the diet is completed 🤔