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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don't do any fad diets and name-brand diets. You will just gain the weight back. Did you see the cover article of the New York Times magazine yesterday? The best thing to do is just cut back your calireis a little, not enough to throw your body into starvation mode where it lowers your metabolism and makes you mentally food-obsessed to make you gain weight.

I know this because I was a 120-pounder who for years tried to be a 110-pounder by dieting. I yo-yo'ed between near-110-pounds and well upwards of that, up to 140 pounds at one point, as my body fought back against what it perceived as starvation.

For the last three years I have stayed at 120 pounds, my body's natural weight, by eating when hungry and stopping when slightly full. I get to enjoy a lot more food than I ever thought possible. It used to be that I would be starving and gaining the weight back at 1500 calories a day, but now I can eat 2000 calories a day and my body stays the same weight. It is astonishing to me that this can be true, but that's the beauty of the human body.[/quote]

I appreciate your advice but someone who has been dieting to go from 120 to 110 doesnt really know anything about struggling with weight loss. Even at 140, you were never really overweight - unless you are 4'8".[/quote]

Same principles apply, whether you are trying to lose 10 or 100 pounds. The science that the human body cannot escape is that dieting causes physiological changes that lead to rebound weight-gain. Ask yourself: how many times have I gone on a diet, and why am I still dieting when it has not worked for me?[/quote]

This is actually not true - did you see the recent NYTimes article about how obesity changes your brain?[/quote]

The article to which you refer does not refute anything in the just-published article that I cite. No simplisitc reading will do.[/quote]

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