{"id":2449,"date":"2013-05-13T05:12:53","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T12:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/?p=2449"},"modified":"2024-02-01T23:31:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T07:31:09","slug":"fad-diets-never-last-long-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/fad-diets-never-last-long-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Fad Diets Never Last Long Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another cookie? Don&#39;t mind if I do, but you can keep your cabbage soup, liver-cleansing concoctions, pallets of grapefruit and slabs of beef.<\/p>\n<p>Hi, my name is Brandon, and I&#39;m a fad dieter.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, I&#39;m in recovery, but I&#39;ve tried it all. Any quick fix diet that has every graced the cover of Woman&#39;s Day magazine, I&#39;ve tried.<\/p>\n<p>I know what you&#39;re thinking, and yes, I said Woman&#39;s Day magazine. You see, when you&#39;re a guy and you&#39;ve been overweight your entire life, you&#39;ll try anything. And I have.<\/p>\n<p>It started during my freshman year of college, when I realized that I was better endowed than pretty much every girl in my dorm. I could have blamed the notorious &quot;freshman 15,&quot; but I knew coming in that I was about a &quot;D&quot; cup. The extra 15 pounds I packed on brought me up to a &quot;DD.&quot; Just saying.<\/p>\n<p>So my sophomore year, when I moved into an apartment just off campus, my roommate Lauren and I decided to lose the weight&#8211;fast.<\/p>\n<p>She&#39;d come back to the apartment after a weekend at her parents&#39; house with the latest Woman&#39;s Day and we&#39;d head down to the grocery store to stock up on food or liquids that were necessary to complete whatever fad diet was popular at the time.<\/p>\n<p>We drank nothing but a terrible mix of honey, vinegar and water for a week. We choked down copious amounts cabbage soup for about 16 days. And we suffered through spoonful after spoonful of grapefruit for two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing worked, but that didn&#39;t stop me from trying everything else for the next 10 years&#8211;Atkins, South Beach and even that &quot;cookie diet&quot; scam.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I faced the facts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I was overweight.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/liver-cleansing-concoctions1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2486\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/liver-cleansing-concoctions1.jpg\" title=\"Fad Diets Never Last Long Enough\" width=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>I didn&#39;t have the skills to eat healthy every day.<\/li>\n<li>Fad diets don&#39;t work.<\/li>\n<li>It was time for me to try gastric sleeve surgery.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Gastric sleeve surgery <\/strong>may sound like quite a leap, but you&#39;ve got to understand&#8211;I&#39;d tried everything. In addition to what I&#39;ve listed above, I tried Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig and even fasting for days at a time.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing worked.<\/p>\n<p>So I had the surgery two years ago. I&#39;ve lost 80 pounds. I spent time with a dietitian I now have the skills and determination to eat right&#8211;mostly because gastric sleeve surgery actually works.<\/p>\n<p>But also because I have pecks now&#8211;and all those girls from the dorm are loving them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another cookie? Don&#39;t mind if I do, but you can keep your cabbage soup, liver-cleansing concoctions, pallets of grapefruit and slabs of beef. Hi, my name is Brandon, and I&#39;m a fad dieter. Actually, I&#39;m in recovery, but I&#39;ve tried it all. 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