This Ham's understanding of diets. Backstory: I work with a fatty.  He will fluctuate his weight quite a bit over the course of just a few months and it is noticeable.  Fatty probably weighs anywhere from 375-425.  We sit near each other and we often talk. The other day he came up to me and asked me how often I went on a diet.  I told him that a diet is not something that I "went on" but a lifestyle that I am always doing.  I am always eating right.  I have never seen someone so confused in my life.  It occurred to me that this is how fatties think.  "I'll just go on a diet for a few months and then I can go back to normal."  Listen fatty lurkers, if you want to lose weight, it is a lifestyle.  If you completely change what you're eating forever, then you will be healthy.  Now then, I have days where I don't care.  Just this fourth of July I ate a full pizza after the bars and drank wayyy too much beer.  And that's fine.  But I am not going to do that everyday, or even every week.  There is no end date on your diet.  Sorry for the rant, but that one question and lack of understanding pissed me off.  Have a nice day FPH!!