How can diet plans be effective for some but not all individuals?
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because stress. we are all fat due to stress. some people are more stressed. some people are less stressed. the cabbage diet works on less stressed people. more stressed people want punch you in the face when they get to the ‘now you can have one plain boiled potatoes and two bananas’ part. Stress explains everything about everything.
Because “dieting” is a shitty concept that usually involves severe restrictions on your nutrients, which causes suffering, is unsustainable long-term, people give up and go back to overeating and becoming fat.
The proper concept is “nutrition”. You simply figure out how to eat at or slightly below your maintenance calories level – not just for a month or two, but for your whole life.
The problem is that most people are extremely ignorant about nutrition. They might not realize that a large cola or a fancy Starbucks frapuccinno may have as many calories as a whole meal. They might grab snacks here and there every day. They don’t realize that supplementing protein isn’t just for bodybuilders, ideally everyone should take those powders, because it’s a simple way to feel “full” while not adding much to the “fat” tally (it’s quite hard for the body to turn protein calories into fat), and it helps maintain muscle when losing weight (the body tries to eat its own muscles before fat when not getting enough calories, and you need hard resistance training and lots of extra protein to resist that).
“You can’t outrun a bad diet” – exercise is great for overall health, but the calories it burns for any normal person are negligible. A workout may make you more hungry, you grab an extra donut, and this donut has more calories than you spent running for an hour. Also, after a hard workout, your tired body might enter “power saving mode”, trying to avoid any extra activities, things like twitching your leg while sitting, fiddling with something, walking around – and throughout the day, these small activities can add up to a full workout in terms of calories burnt.
Overall, it’s all about people experiencing hunger in different ways, and having different levels of self-control.
People aren’t identical, and their bodies process things slightly differently. We have different digestive gut floras, that handle food differently.
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Although the realistic answer is that most dieting is just about self-control. And when people say it didn’t work for them, it generally means they weren’t able to stick with it.
Answer:
The diet has nothing to do with it being effective. Its the peoples willingness to stick to it that matters.
The only thing that makes it effective is the willpower of the user to not stray from the plan.
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