What does work
The message is simple: eat less calories and you will lose weight.
BUT the change in intake needs to be at least a 25% reduction to overcome the body’s tendency to maintain a steady weight by reducing metabolic rate.
What sort of diet?
The one you will stick to and something pretty different from what you are doing now [what you are doing now is making you fat].
A recent US study [The Pounds Lost Study] is the most comprehensive comparison of different diets to date. They measured body fat precisely using DEXA scans and followed up for 2 years.
There was no difference between diets of different types.
The one thing that made a really important difference was that those who ate more fibre lost more weight. However as time progressed, people slackened off – they didn’t maintain eg the high protein load they had chosen
