A change for good

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It’s the age-old problem: You go on a diet then the kilos come back, plus some. We take a look at a new weight-loss approach that doesn’t put the focus on food.

You’ve done paleo, Atkins and raw food. You’ve quit sugar, farted up a storm on cabbage soup and chomped on carrots until your palms turned an eerie shade of orange. You’ve fasted, attended soul- destroying weigh-ins and knocked back expensive juices like your life depended on it. Sometimes you got good results, other times just tiny successes, but before long the weight piled back on – and then some.

It’s a scenario that plays out in homes across the country time after time – and little wonder, given that nearly 65% of dieters return to their pre-dieting weight within three years, according to the Weight and Eating Disorders program at the University of Pennsylvania in the US. Which begs the question: even if you find a diet you can stick with, if you gain back the weight later, can it really be considered a success?

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