Some time ago a study showed that you can lose weight with any diet , you just need to be motivated. In years that I have been writing about diets I cannot deny this statement: in fact you will find people in shape whether they do the paleo or the Mediterranean diet, whether they eat high carb or low carb, who have abandoned sugars in favor of fats or the other way around, that count calories or have eliminated gluten. Clearly there are better diets, diets that come close to good nutrition, but even a quick diet can lead to weight loss and even a diet of junk foods, as in the case of a teacher who would have lost over fifteen pounds by eating fast food.. In short: it is not so much the diet we choose, but the motivation to make a certain diet and follow it to make us lose weight. This is the problem, not the diet itself. What to do to avoid giving up the diet? How to find a diet that we like so much that it almost doesn’t feel like a diet?
This question was answered by the BBC broadcaster with a documentary, entitled “What’s The Right Diet For You”, in which a group of scientists struggling with a sample of people with peso tried to establish a series of eating behaviors that could invalidate the diets or decree their success. So the problem is to make a diet that suits us, depending on what kind of people we are. If we suffer, for example, from nervous hunger, it is useless and harmful to focus on the diet of intermittent fasting, because we will be defeated, and with a double desire to overeat. Also, there are several reasons why we gain weight, and we don’t all lose it in the same way. An example reported by the documentary is for us. Let’s think how we go wrong : we are the type of Nutella jar and a packet of biscuits in front of the TV, or comfort food types, are we people who love to nibble all day, are we people who manage to stay hours without eating but then lose all brakes at dinner? In the first two cases, an ideal diet is one that allows frequent low-calorie snacks: