Here come the new year diets — which can you stay on?

The beginning of every year is normally when people talk about dieting and losing weight. Yet few stay true to that goal by year’s end. Still, we keep trying and now the calorie-tracking app LoseIt is offering some help with this list of most sustainable diets.

The familiar Mediterranean Diet is number one but then come some surprises, like Hara Hachi Bu from Okinawa. Those words translate into 80% full, roughly, and that’s what the diet advocates, only eat until you are 80% full.

Coincidently I just saw this discussed on a Netflix series about places around the world where people live into their 90s and 100s,

I’ve long been fascinated by Okinawa. My dad built airfields for the U.S. Army Air Corps there during World War II. He wished he could have seen it without the destruction of war all around, saying it seemed a naturally beautiful place.

He never did get to see it again. I had hoped to make that journey for him but the more time passes, the less likely I think that trip will be for me, an old man with heart issues.

Getting back to the diets, another is the Add, Don’t Subtract Diet that advocates adding healthy items rather than just subtracting unhealthy ones.

This might work if you like healthy items. If not?

And on the 80% diet, how do you know when you reach 80% full? I think the key there is simply not to always stuff yourself like a character in a Monty Python movie.

Good luck with all your 20024 food pursuits!