How many times have you gone on a diet so far?

MyChocolateDiet

4 times, they all worked.

1) H.S.: how could it not work, I was a teenager and already in shape. It was that crazy broccoli and hot dogs diet for a week, I didn't even need it, but my friends mom gave my mom the photocopy so my friend and I did it from the fridge just trying to be cool. It was silly. I did it learned a bunch of new cool food combos like cantaloupe and vanilla ice cream, and toast with peanut butter. New to me. And I learned to make and love broccoli (just not with hot dogs, lol).

2) Pregnancy: after my first child I did slim-fast lost 30 lbs stayed slim for over a decade on regular eating.

3) Injury: somersized while injured to lose weight put on while bedridden from an injury but still eating for the first several months at the level I had been immediately prior which was for a person working out/biking/swimming/rollerblading 5 times a week. On a bedridden person those cals added up fast. Within a year I looked like I had aged 10. Lost 51 lbs on that plan and stayed thin for over 5 years.

4) Surgeries: needed 3 surgeries in a row, each one adding a little more weight; the surgery to correct the injury, a c-section to deliver the subsequent pregnancy, and then a hernia/tummy tuck surgery after the pregnancy. I'm losing that now and have high hopes for success with MFP using slim fasts for ease of cal counting and fitting into my erratic SAHM schedule plus I do paleo at dinnertime with my husband who likes paleo. Yeah I'm like a superhero, slim fast by day/paleo by night. I also have high hopes for maintenance again since it seems to be something that comes naturally to me.

I don't think there's anything wrong at all with dieting for people who already know how to eat well, naturally or taught, and just need to sometimes get their weight back to normal after something knocks it out of whack.