I thought I would revive this thread with a question to see people’s opinions on a hypothesis I’ve been developing over the past little while ...
A little over a decade ago, when I was 19 years old, I lost (roughly) 90 pounds and I have mostly kept it off since then. At the time I didn’t follow any structured diet program, and my focus was on eating what I thought was a more appropriate portion size and paying attention to the signals my body was telling me about how I should eat. Over the years I have periodically put back on some of the weight and tried a variety of different methods to take it off with varying results.Recently (as in over the past few years) I have had a growing interest in nutrition in general and I decided to return to the root of my weight loss and focus on listening to my body and eating appropriately; and I have achieved a level of success that has always eluded me.
My hypothesis is that conventional diets do not work; and the reason why the dieting is still so heavily promoted is because the weight-loss industry is big business (over $40 Billion per year) and there isn’t much money in telling people to pay more attention to what their body is telling them.
