Weight loss and perseverance
Yep. No wonder fad diets and instant weight loss supplements still find followers willing to spend their money on them.
Of course, it isn’t new...it has been like that since the mid 70s with Pritikin, Atkin, grapefruit, South Beach, Keto and a dozen other diet plans...all of which only achieve results by changing energy balance despite what they claim otherwise.
The equation remains simple, just like it always has.
People just seem to be drawn to magical claims...and choose to ignore basic science along the way.
Great job on the weight loss!
Not all of these diets that you have listed are NOT science based NOR ineffective. To throw them altogether as magical is misleading, incorrect, and ignorant.
Although I will admit KETOSIS/ATKINS really is a slooow way to kill your self, I have seen sailors combine that diet with exercise and lose 64 pounds in a three month deployment. Meat and vegetables, no bread, no sugar, nearly two gallons of water a day, 3000-5000 calories burned on stationary bike/elliptical/treadmill (we were on a submarine, deployed) his friend lost 50, I lost 26 pounds.
You have to be monitored by a doctor, but scientifically proven to burn your own body fat.
This is one of the most effective diets for females in their late fifties or older. It has also been known to moderate the symptoms of children with refractory epilepsy. For obese or significantly overweight people ketosis has been found safe in several studies.
Vitamins and lots of water required, and there is a transition day or three where you feel like you have the flu. During that transition the individual feels fatigue. There are drawbacks like the individual must exercise to fend off muscle loss, quantity of fats in that are increased in the arteries, and this diet is hard on the kidneys and liver.
Ketosis is designed for for significant, initial weight loss, and is considered short term.
This information comes from YEARS of SCIENTIFIC study-not magic nor fad.
Even dieting and keto do not work effectively on a few type of people whose ancestors survived in harsh climates (?Pima Indians of New Mexico/Arizona, indigenous people of northern Russia {Siberia}) where fat deposits saved people through years of famine. Those people’s metabolisms genetically changed significantly from the general population.