Take a survey on your weight loss with certain diets to help with my AP Research Project

Essa223
Essa223 Posts: 6 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Hi! I am an AP Research student in Utah and I am researching which diet, a traditional (mediterranean), ketogenic, or sensory (changing plate sizes) diet will lead to the most weight loss for the longest time. I am conduction both a meta-analysis or preexisting data and i'm collecting survey data to help answer my question. If you have followed one of the above diets, please complete my consent form here (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdgSqvN0f2JO0wJRCzHmXesCwD4iKdffGN7zsLdCmaZVqhvdw/viewform?usp=sf_link) (Your name will not be used in my data) and then complete the survey with the link given after the consent form is submitted. Thank you.
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  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,358 Member
    edited January 7
    An idiosyncratic diet that aligns with your preferences and lifestyle while limiting the amount of calories you intake to about the correct amount to reach your goals.

    Depends on you and your own changing preferences and not on a magical formula.

    If any magical formula temporarily (shorter or longer term temporarily) aligns with the above that's no different than discovering a new favorite place or a new favorite pastime: It is fun to follow and explore and benefit from; but it is not the driving force in terms of you being in charge of achieving and maintaining your weight loss by building habits and preferences that promote both the achievement and longer term maintenance of your goal weight.

    You're saying that a contractor is a good contractor because they own DeWalt or Milwaukee or Makita or Bosch or Hitachi or Craftsman or any of the many other brands of quality tools. And by knowing the tools you can know the good contractors.

    Sure, having good tools is useful and one of the things to maybe consider when looking at a contractor.

    But I doubt I would be the man you should choose to put your house together if I go buy Makita or Craftsman instead of the Ryobi tools I already have!
  • totameafox
    totameafox Posts: 17 Member
    the only type of diet that works is calorie deficient. What you eat affects the way you feel. The only thing that is affective is something you can continue. I've failed at that 4 times now. so what you are researching really has no way to verify data. I would recommend changing your topic.
  • tomcustombuilder
    tomcustombuilder Posts: 2,267 Member
    edited January 7
    The only diet that works long term is one that you can stick to permanently after the fat is lost.

    Fat loss is a product of a consistent weekly calorie deficit overtime and nothing more. The type of diet does not matter. It’s the overall weekly and monthly calorie amount that is going to determine whether you lose fat, you maintain your fat level or you gain fat.
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 10,005 Member
    Looks like TO disabled the form. Nothing more to see here. Maybe they're researching this topic a bit better now before designing a questionnaire.
  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,358 Member
    Yeah, right! Don't hold your breath about changing topics or thinking things through!

    Either they got enough of a response, or MFP complained, or it was phishing and they or someone else shut it down! I didn't check out the form initially so.... 🤷‍♂️

    To me the question parallels thoughts I was having during the decades I was obese before finding success during the past 10 years, hence my attempt at a PSA response
  • Essa223
    Essa223 Posts: 6 Member
    Hi! Just a reminder in order to try out my survey you'll have to tap on the blue link, say yes when MFP asks you to redirect to my google form, put your name into the submission box, then take the actual survey with the link that pops up after your submit the consent form. Thank you again for participating!
  • Essa223
    Essa223 Posts: 6 Member
    tomcustombuilder wrote: »
    The only diet that works long term is one that you can stick to permanently after the fat is lost.

    Fat loss is a product of a consistent weekly calorie deficit overtime and nothing more. The type of diet does not matter. It’s the overall weekly and monthly calorie amount that is going to determine whether you lose fat, you maintain your fat level or you gain fat.

    Yes, sticking to a diet is very important. Part of my research is figuring out which diet "sticks" the longest. It'll be subjective towards individuals of course, but I'm trying to figure out what generally works!
  • Essa223
    Essa223 Posts: 6 Member
    totameafox wrote: »
    the only type of diet that works is calorie deficient. What you eat affects the way you feel. The only thing that is affective is something you can continue. I've failed at that 4 times now. so what you are researching really has no way to verify data. I would recommend changing your topic.

    For my research I am conducting both a meta-analysis and a survey. The meta-analysis is looking at people who have lost weight on specific diets. While a calorie deficit is crucial in weight loss, different diets might make it easier. This is essentially what I am investigating. You're question helped me out, ill be sure to clarify that im my actual paper. Thank you!
  • Essa223
    Essa223 Posts: 6 Member
    yirara wrote: »
    Looks like TO disabled the form. Nothing more to see here. Maybe they're researching this topic a bit better now before designing a questionnaire.

    The form still works on my end. Be sure to say yes when My fitness pal asks you to navigate away. If you
    have decided that you don't want to participate in my survey, no sweat! Thank you for checking it out!
  • glassyo
    glassyo Posts: 7,774 Member
    Essa223 wrote: »
    tomcustombuilder wrote: »
    The only diet that works long term is one that you can stick to permanently after the fat is lost.

    Fat loss is a product of a consistent weekly calorie deficit overtime and nothing more. The type of diet does not matter. It’s the overall weekly and monthly calorie amount that is going to determine whether you lose fat, you maintain your fat level or you gain fat.

    Yes, sticking to a diet is very important. Part of my research is figuring out which diet "sticks" the longest. It'll be subjective towards individuals of course, but I'm trying to figure out what generally works!

    *whispers* That question was already answered in this thread.

    It's the one you're going to stick with. NO diet is going to work in the long run if you end up torturing yourself by eating things you don't like or not eating things you do like. Or taking up running when you'd rather be jumping on a trampoline (or whatever).

    Eat less than you burn on whatever schedule works for you, eating whatever foods you prefer (hopefully some of those are healthy).

    Do I get an A? :)

  • Essa223
    Essa223 Posts: 6 Member
    Hi all! Thank you for your comments, I have read and considered all of them. Please put your comments in my survey so that I am able to use them in my research. Thank you!
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,435 Member
    Essa223 wrote: »
    Hi all! Thank you for your comments, I have read and considered all of them. Please put your comments in my survey so that I am able to use them in my research. Thank you!

    As people have said, it's not working, hon:

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  • glassyo
    glassyo Posts: 7,774 Member
    I got the You Need Permission message, too.
  • COGypsy
    COGypsy Posts: 1,380 Member
    You might take a look at some of the research produced by Jim Hill—he’s one of the developers of the National Weight Control Registry that has done a lot of work in studying weight loss maintenance and what successful losers (that sounds weird, lol) have in common as far as weight loss and maintenance go.
  • glassyo
    glassyo Posts: 7,774 Member
    COGypsy wrote: »
    You might take a look at some of the research produced by Jim Hill—he’s one of the developers of the National Weight Control Registry that has done a lot of work in studying weight loss maintenance and what successful losers (that sounds weird, lol) have in common as far as weight loss and maintenance go.

    That's so funny because an ex boss was on Weight Watchers and she and her friend would have dinner at this little French restaurant across the street after the meetings and their regular waitress would always ask, " Are you loosers today?" (Stop that, auto correct!)

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