Quote Originally Posted by El Horno View Post
Diets don't work. You almost always put the weight back on even if it is successful to begin with. Only a permanent change in eating, drinking and exercise habits can change things.... That... or gallstones!
This is unfortunately true.

I remember a prog on TV ages ago,they used this analogy -
as you eat, the body stores the food types (protein, carbs, fat) in "pockets".
When all the pockets were full, the body creates new fat pockets, but no extra pockets for the other stuff.
So excess food of any type is stored as fat.
But if you lose weight, those extra fat pockets are still there, so it is very easy to put weight back on if you overeat by just a small amount.