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Whether it’s crash diets, detoxes, no-carb or low-carb plans, many seeking to lose weight are faced with a litany of purported cure-alls. And yet, while many will enjoy some short-term results on these plans, most will eventually wind up right back where they started.

Dieting, of course, is highly individualized. There is no single weight-loss plan that will work for everyone, and each person will approach it differently and with varying degrees of success. But failure is all too common. And if it happens often enough, it can be devastating to one’s self-esteem and overall happiness.

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Dr. Yoni Freedhoff is no stranger to the failed diet. The Ottawa-based family doctor has headed up the Bariatric Medical Institute for over a decade, where he has helped find non-surgical weight-loss solutions for thousands of patients. He sees a host of commonalities in our failed weight-loss attempts – enough, as it turns out, to form the basis for his book, The Diet Fix (Random House Canada, 2015).