why do people continue to use fad diets when it is known that fad diets do not work?
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3 Responses to “why do people continue to use fad diets when it is known that fad diets do not work?”
Here’s the thing – fad diets do work, in short term. People today are all about fast results. That means that if they can lose weight quickly, they’ll do it without caring about the long term. That’s just how people are.
Because they want to believe that it can work. It’s optimism in it’s simplest form; people like to think that they *can* do it. Sometimes, just the feeling that you’re working successfully towards something is enough of a reward for some people, even if, objectively, they’re accomplishing nothing.
It’s very similar to a religion in some senses. It’s not the results that count so much as it is the ritual of and the feeling that you get out of it.
December 21st, 2009 at 9:36 am
Here’s the thing – fad diets do work, in short term. People today are all about fast results. That means that if they can lose weight quickly, they’ll do it without caring about the long term. That’s just how people are.
December 21st, 2009 at 9:36 am
because they live on a fantasy that it might work for them
December 21st, 2009 at 9:36 am
Because they want to believe that it can work. It’s optimism in it’s simplest form; people like to think that they *can* do it. Sometimes, just the feeling that you’re working successfully towards something is enough of a reward for some people, even if, objectively, they’re accomplishing nothing.
It’s very similar to a religion in some senses. It’s not the results that count so much as it is the ritual of and the feeling that you get out of it.