Diet: Don't Undermine Your Diet

Let's start this article off right. You are not 'going on a diet'.
Our concept of 'a diet' implies a temporary change that will work
miracles - if we're only strong enough to stick to it. That way of
thinking is encouraged by decades of 'fad diets' that promised us
quick, low-effort weight loss, if we just ate this one miracle food.
I still remember the Cabbage diet, the No-Carb diet and the Banana
diet, among others. Over and over throughout the last 40 years,
diets that advocated eating by a strictly enforced menu have been
proven ineffective, or worse, dangerous.

Going on a diet also implies that you will eventually go off your
diet - whether you 'fall off' it, or return to 'normal eating'.