What Makes a Diet Easy to Follow? New U.S. News rankings rate how easy 25 diets are to follow. How much weight should you give this?

“It’s always going to be hard at first, but you’re more likely to be able to live with some diets than you are others,” says registered dietitian Andrea Giancoli…

By Angela Haupt

January 3, 2012

Losing weight is never going to be a piece of cake. But obstacles like bland food, a rigid eating schedule, and hours-long meal prep make sticking to a diet—and seeing the number on the scale steadily decline—much less likely. That’s why it’s smart to look for a plan or approach that’s relatively easy to follow.

“It’s always going to be hard at first, but you’re more likely to be able to live with some diets than you are others,” says registered dietitian Andrea Giancoli, who serves on U.S. News’s Best Diets panel of 22 experts in nutrition and diet. “You don’t want something that’s immediately setting you up for failure.”

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