India, Dec. 12 -- If you're hoping to lose weight and your first instinct is to go on a diet, you may want to pause - because while dieting can shift the scale quickly, it rarely leads to results that last. Restrictive plans overhaul everything at once: what you eat, when you eat, even how you eat. The real question is, can you keep up with all those changes for months or years? If long-term, sustainable weight loss is your goal - the kind you won't gain back by next season - there's a far simpler, more effective approach.

With 18 years of experience, fitness trainer Raj Ganpath - founder of the Slow Burn Method, co-founder and head coach at Quad Fitness, and author of Simple, Not Easy - has explained why dieting isn't the answer if you ...