You can't "jump start" or "kick start" a diet, or your metabolism

drachfit

Every second thread is asking how to kick start a diet. This is not a thing.

What do people even mean by this meaningless phrase?

Ready2Rock206

It means they want instant results with as little effort as possible.

Alatariel75

People have been bombarded for years with articles, so called health experts and products which seek to make money by convincing them that their body is a finicky, fallible thing which requires trickery and coddling to do its job.

They've also been conditioned to believe that losing weight means "dieting", which is often synonymous with restrictions, fad, weird ways of eating and unsustainable methods to get results, and that in order to succeed they need to somehow modify the way their body works.

It's really just a sad indictment on the way the diet industry works, and how it has worked for decades.

lemurcat12

Ready2Rock206 wrote: »

It means they want instant results with as little effort as possible.

This.

Plus I think some people assume that if they do something super extreme they will no longer be attracted to the foods they tend to overeat.

And some seem to superstitiously think you have to shock your body to make it lose weight (no idea why).

Mostly it's just irritating dieting jargon people pick up from dieting sites and women's/health mags, like "journey" and foods being "packed with" stuff and superfoods and "detoxing" and "eating clean." Words that bug because they don't really mean anything and people use them without thought so often.

AnvilHead

Ready2Rock206 wrote: »

It means they want instant results with as little effort as possible.

^ This.

Alatariel75 wrote: »

People have been bombarded for years with articles, so called health experts and products which seek to make money by convincing them that their body is a finicky, fallible thing which requires trickery and coddling to do its job.

They've also been conditioned to believe that losing weight means "dieting", which is often synonymous with restrictions, fad, weird ways of eating and unsustainable methods to get results, and that in order to succeed they need to somehow modify the way their body works.

It's really just a sad indictment on the way the diet industry works, and how it has worked for decades.

^ And this.


The diet/nutrition industry is a multi-billion dollar fraud machine. They spend a lot of money and effort on advertising and it obviously does its job - just read all the threads on MFP about "jump starting", "kick starting", "detoxing/cleansing", "superfoods", "fat burners", bla bla bla. Demonize this food. Demonize that food. Eating low carb will make you lose weight faster. Eating low fat will make you lose weight faster. Excluding sugar will make you lose weight faster. All bogus woo. The industry preys upon desperate and gullible/under-educated people who believe in miracles and are willing to try anything as a shortcut to weight loss. Unfortunately, the truth is that no shortcuts exist.