How do you feel about diets? Have you ever tried one? Did it work for you or did it backfire?

A “diet” is the combination of the types of foods someone eats and the amount they eat of each type.  Even eating junk food and ice cream is a diet.  It’s a bad one, but it’s still a diet.  Each different diet has a purpose.  There are diets to help someone lose weight—or to gain it—diets to help build muscle, diets that include or eliminate a certain type of food, and diets that only include one type of food.

That said, I have never tried a specific, named diet, like vegetarianism or the Atkins Diet, but I have tried to keep track of an adjust my own generic diet to try and lose some of the extra fat on my body.  It would probably work better if I actually used enough self-discipline to stick to that plan though.