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“Even if you believe you can succeed, thinking that the diet is cognitively complex can undermine your efforts,” she said.
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Many people think the success of dieting, seemingly a national obsession following the excesses and resolutions of the holiday season, depends mostly on how hard one tries — on willpower and dedication. While this does matter, new research has found that a much more subtle aspect of the diets themselves can also have a big influence on the pounds shed — namely, the perceived complexity of a diet plan’s rules and requirements.
While losing weight initially isn’t rocket science, keeping it off remains a challenge to dieters. It generally is believed that the longer people can adhere to their diet plan, the more successful they will be long-term with their weight loss maintenance. And the more like rocket science one’s diet plan feels, Todd and Mata report, the less likely that long-term adherence and maintenance is to succeed.
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