go on a diet

基本解釋

If you have the mentality of “I need to go on a diet,” stop it. Diets don't work, only lifestyle changes do.
如果你持有這種心態(tài)“我要節(jié)食”，停下來，節(jié)食是沒有作用的，衹有生活方式的改變才能起作用。
As summer closes in, the number of people who are eager to go on a diet increases drastically, but in three months most of them give up this idea, for they notice no measurable results.
隨著夏天的來臨，想通過節(jié)食減肥的人數(shù)在急速上陞。但是他們大多數(shù)在三個月內(nèi)就放棄這個想法，原因是他們看不到結(jié)果。
In order to make themselves pretty-looking, they try many different ways of losing weight. Some go on a diet, some take exercise,some eat medicine ,others even turn to operation for help.
減肥的方法層出不窮，有的採用節(jié)食減肥，有的進(jìn)行運(yùn)動減肥，有的利用葯物減肥，有的甚至進(jìn)行手術(shù)減肥。

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