Yeah I was also thinking about how the word &quot;diet&quot; is used. If it&#x27;s one of those weird things like &quot;you can eat as many eggs as you want as long as you don&#x27;t eat anything else&quot; then I think it&#x27;s utter bullshit. I see the effects of such diets on my sister. Yo-yo effect all the way.<p>However like you said if you think about your diet like e.g. banning soda, processed food and other unhealthy food, it works wonders. I know the book title sounds cliche but I&#x27;m reading &quot;The 6-Pack Checklist: A Step-by-Step Guide to Shredded Abs&quot; by Nate Miyaki and he writes that even if you exercise a lot you cannot or shouldn&#x27;t eat anything you like.<p>This wasn&#x27;t clear to me up until recently because I thought only about calories but not the quality of food like if you are taking enough omega 3 fatty acids etc. I thought as long as I exercise and burn enough calories it doesn&#x27;t matter what kind of food I eat which is not true.