On average, women will start a new diet twice a year but it will only last four and half weeks
WOMEN go on 130 diets in a lifetime, a study has revealed.
They start one twice a year on average but it will last for just four weeks and three days.
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The most popular diet is fat-free, which is used by 21 per cent, vegetarian was named by 15 per cent, and a carb-free plan followed with 13 per cent.
Other diet plans regularly embraced by our nations women include dairy free, juicing and even wheat free.
The study was completed by hospitality firm Fourth who surveyed 1,500 women.
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When it comes to reasons why the diets are packed in, a third of the women said it was down to love of food.
Poor willpower was the second most popular answer and a further twenty per cent said they lack patience.
A tenth admitted to just being baffled by what is banned on a plan.
Of the total women asked, a massive thirty-one per cent admitted that chocolate was the single thing they missed the most and a Friday night take-away came in at second.
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Five per cent say an active social life scuppers new food regimes.
But a similar number still dine out.
Director at Fourth, Catherine Marshall, said: Eating out and enjoying food and drinks with friends should not stop anybody from continuing a healthy eating plan.
Eating out and enjoying food and drinks with friends should not stop anybody from continuing a healthy eating plan.
Adults have a tendency to panic when in a restaurant and automatically assume nothing will cater for their latest health fix, but more often than not there will be options on the menu that are suitable for any diet or lifestyle choice.
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