Thinking this way is a trap.

Imagine Zinaida. She loves pizza, buns, and pasta. Zina decided to lose weight. "I'll go on a salad diet," Zina thinks, "it's hard to get fat on salads, and they're healthy."

Zina stocks up on vegetables, olive oil, and various cheeses to make the salads tastier.

She eats salads for a day, two days. At first, she likes it. A pleasant lightness in her digestive tract, her well-being improves. She's bursting with pride.

But by the third or fourth day, she gets hungry. Zina piles on more cheese and croutons in her salad to try to feel full.

Still, there's no feeling of real satiety. Zina starts snacking on treats. "Well, what's one time? It's not a big deal. I'm on a salad diet, and this is practically not even food, so I can have a snack," Zina thinks, and takes a bite of bread.

The result: weight doesn't drop much, she's constantly hungry, low on energy, and buns are tempting. Those sneaky colleagues, the radishes, bring cakes and pizza to the office, literally tormenting Zina with temptations.

Zina breaks down, goes on a bun binge, shames herself, then makes up for it with salads, and the cycle repeats.

Why doesn't Zina figure out how weight loss actually works and how to structure her diet?

Because figuring it out is long, tedious, and confusing. And there are no guarantees.
Zina really wants guarantees, a reliable method. If she's going to suffer, she wants to know it's not for nothing.

Salads seem like a reliable method: they're low in calories, healthy — surely you'll lose weight!

But Zina doesn't realize she's pouring lots of oil and not skimping on cheese in her salad. That's no longer "low calorie" but a fairly calorie-dense dinner. Plus, snacking here and there and coffee with syrup.

In the end, she overeats, but gets little satiety: there's barely any protein, no proper structure, so she's tempted to snack. That won't get you far.

Most importantly: what will she do later, when she loses weight (if she can stick with it)? How will she maintain the weight? Live on salads forever?

Not a great prospect, since Zina loves pizza and buns.

What should Zina do?
Definitely not look for a "proven and reliable" method.
There is no diet that works for everyone. Intermittent fasting is great for some, but for others, hunger drives them crazy.

Zina needs to build her own system. One that allows her to stay in a calorie deficit regularly, but also accounts for her favorite buns and Saturday barbecues.

Then she'll lose weight without having to tear her hair out.

Yes, figuring all this out initially seems complicated and boring. Unlike salads, right?))

But that's only at first, until you take the first clear steps.
You have to start somewhere, if you don't want to spend your whole life testing "reliable methods" that don't deliver results.

I would recommend Zina join the "It Worked Out by Itself" club. That's exactly what we do there: build a system tailored to your life.
There's already a clear roadmap: what to do, in what order, and what to tackle first.

If you're tired of testing yet another "reliable method," come join us :)
Click the link to read about the club and get access.