Title: Why Diets Don't Work... and What Does | Psychology Today
Headings: Why Diets Don't Work... and What Does
Meg Selig
Why Diets Don't Work... and What Does
For lifelong weight loss, lose the diet.

Content: There's no reason to be a sacrificial lamb, so to speak, to lose weight. 4. Dieting, along with the frequent and compulsive weighing that accompanies it, can lead to eating disorders. According to one source, people who diet are 8 times as likely to develop an eating disorder as people who don't. 5. Unscrupulous people can peddle "magic weight-loss potions," such as special powders and pills, to desperate people, costing them their money and time at best, and fatal health consequences at worst (think "fen-phen," the diet drug that caused often fatal heart valve problems). And have you ever noticed that every diet product claims it will be wondrously effective "if used simultaneously with a healthy diet and regular exercise program?" Skip the magic potions—it's the healthy eating and exercise that are actually the effective ingredients. Finally, there is this reason: 6.