"Very few people can achieve permanent weight loss," says Golda, who's writing an anti-dieting book titled Stop Dieting Now: 25 Reasons To Stop, 25 Ways To Heal.
The campaign's tagline, "Stop Dieting.
Visit www.bps.org.uk. 3. Stop dieting After years in thrall to diets, we're finally realising that they don't work.
Today is International No Diet Day – the day when, erm, we stop dieting for 24 hours if we are dieting, and if not, carry on as normal?
However, in the case of obesity, the mechanism may work against the person by leaving them liable to put weight back on rapidly once they stop dieting.
Diets tended to give sustained weight-loss for a period of around six-months, according to research, but after this many people stop losing weight and may even recover it once they stop dieting.
Over the years, a few alternative titles have sprung up, including Ms., in the seventies, and Sassy, which was founded in 1988 and featured articles like "Thirteen Reasons to Stop Dieting".
1. Stop dieting: Diets don't work.
Sam the Stomach says to stop dieting and start chewing more.
And I realize if you stop dieting you're also risking weight gain.
