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Salon.com Life | The girth of a nation:
Your book points out that the rates of dieting continue to skyrocket even while the country's average weight had risen. Why?
The connection is causal. Dieting makes people heavier than they would be otherwise. There are a lot of studies where if you take two cohorts of people of the same initial weight and compare people who diet and people who don't, in the long term people who diet weigh more than the people who don't.
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I think people who diet tend to overeat in the first place. And those who diet generally don't do it right--and then, of course, they binge all over the place. I'm a full-time dieter. Once at 153 pounds, I am now down to 131. It only took three months. But I didn't do it casually or excessively. I gradually took all sugar out of my diet. I didn't weigh myself except once a week to check my progress. And I didn't let any weight gain during the diet throw me off. I also exercise three or four times a week. My diet is for life. I can't expect to go back to the way I was eating and not gain back every pound I've lost. It doesn't work that way... So dieting is good and can save lives, but it has to be done right--consistently, cautiously, and slowly.
alexa, i'm sorry if i've given the impression that i'm interested in your personal short term success story of dieting. because i'm not. for the record, you started out at a lower weight than i have ever been while at my full height. i currently weigh approximately one hundred pounds more than you did three months ago.
the part of this story where you thought you were fat and needed to lose twenty pounds is the part i'm interested in.
i hope that whatever you choose to do works out and leaves you happy and healthy. and as long as it involves dieting, i'd rather you didn't talk about it here.
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