Diet and exercise generally do not cause substantial long term weight loss.
"Healthy diet" and dieting are often two different things.
Healthy diet might mean increasing the amount of vegetables in your diet. That's simply good.
Reducing your calorie consumption for a few months and then increasing it in what's commonly called the jo-jo effect on the other hand is not healthy.
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