A guide to flexible dieting : how being less strict with your diet can make it work better

When most people diet, they take a fairly all or nothing approach. They expect 100% perfection and any slip up, no matter how minor, tends to derail their dieting efforts. Of course, the statistics show that most people will fail on a diet, regaining all of the lost weight and frequently more. That alone suggests that the type of extreme (let's call it rigid) approach to dieting does more harm than good. But research also suggests that flexible d...