Hello, you are listening to the ESG Fitness podcast with me.

ESG Fitness.

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Was that a better intro?

So professional now.

Today I want to talk about that statistic, you know, the one that says 95% of diets fail?

It's actually quite hard to find a source for that statistic.

And I'm not saying that it's wrong, and unfortunately, most people do regain the weight that they lose on a diet after the diet.

But people usually hear this statistic or newspapers write about this statistic as a way to prove

that diets don't work.

And what is usually the case is that the diet has failed someone, not that they haven't failed the diet.

So I think often people try a diet, it doesn't work, and they internalize that failure.

And that obviously leads to them potentially going into the next diet that they try with

almost like this belief that it won't work anyway,

which is then enforced by messages like 95% of diets fail,

which I think is at best an unuseful message and at worst a really freaking dangerous message.

It's actually laughable that we attribute the failure

of dieting or of a diet to an individual when it is quite clearly the god awful piece of shit

diet that they've been trying to sick to, which is completely unrealistic.

And these kind of messages like that mays diets fail and 95% of diets fail, of course they

make people think, well, why bother trying? And then you're coming in with this negative

mindset of it's not going to work anyway. And you never fully invest in it because you always think, well, negative mindset of it's not going to work anyway and you never fully invest in

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