You can not diet and keep the weight off. You have to change your life style. Most experts say, if you can maintain a healthy diet and exercise for 3 months, it will become habit.
Simply eating less calories or going no carb or what ever is only a short term solution to a life long problem.
Very true.
Diet sometimes means learning a better way to eat. Eating to live rather than living to eat.
I'm scaling way back from normal because my normal was obscenely too much. I want to cut calories and cut excessive carbs to promote burning fat stores for fuel. At the same time I'm starting to exercise.
Y'all have seen my routine eating. That's just not healthy, even if it is tasty. I'm changing the FREQUENCY of my cheeseburgers and cutting down on the bad foods I eat. That's my "diet" plan for long term. Short term, I'm doing a melt down and really getting the weight off fast, then will adjust.