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This suggests that the important factor in weight loss has nothing to do with any specific diet. Rather the key is the sudden shock to the endocrinological system that goes along with starting a new diet. Given any stable diet, your system will adapt to keep you at a certain weight. But if you constantly change your diet, your system will never be able to adapt.
Proposal: the meta-diet. Get 12 wonder diet books. Mark each month with a corresponding diet (Jan. is Atkin's, Feb is Shangri-La, ...) Every month, ditch the previous diet without a second thought and scrupulously adhere to the new one.
I've seen this seriously suggested by dietary experts, but can't find the citation. Compare to similar strategies in defeating infections.
Or just invent new "diets". e.g., "This month I will only eat foods that start with the letter P."
I hereby officially declare October a Pizza Month! :D
Coincidence?
I can just feel the pounds dropping away!
The problem with that strategy is that the more diets you try, the more likely it is that at least one of them is seriously harmful.
Provided you aren't already malnourished, NO diet, even starvation, is going to be harmful over the course of one month.
100% not true. Ignoring actual poisons, overemphasis in some foods might make you ill, underemphasis might make you ill, too little X might affect your ability to process Y, and just plain starving for a month will leave you with organ damage.
You need to check your references more closely. I checked the last and what it actually said was:
prolonged starvation (in excess of 1–2 months) causes permanent organ damage[citation needed]
Notice it was in excess of 1-2 months, and it gave no citation.
I did realize another exception after I posted - if you have a problem like diabetes or several nutritional or metabolic disorders, you would also have problems.
Refusing to eat for a month isn't harmful? I'm not a nutritionist, but I find that claim absurd.