1 • Reply•Share › Avatar the_spiral ItSmellsLikePee • 7 months ago "Dieting always fails" annoys the crap out of me, because 99% the time they mean crash dieting, yo-yoing and starve/binge cycling which OF COURSE IS DOOMED TO FAIL BECAUSE IT'S UNSUSTAINABLE. But making reasonable, incremental lifestyle adjustments to eat healthier and exercise works for tons of people—they just don't call it "dieting." Many HAES advocates act like your only options are starving yourself to death or eating entire cakes and not giving a shit. There are a whole spectrum of healthy lifestyle habits in between they just pretend don't exist. And at the end of the day they're only fooling themselves, because EVERYONE else on earth can see the connections between morbid obesity, out-of-control PCOS symptoms and walking with a cane when you're barely out of your teens.  That reply is spot on.