When it comes to nutrition, the most important thing is making sure that we can make lifelong positive changes. Often times, fad diets are effective for a short period of time, but what happens once you get bored of it? It is just not a sustainable lifestyle. Let's get rid of the diet, and focus on our nutrition. We want to avoid the negative long-term consequences of diets: strictness that takes away the joy we have from food as fuel, boredom eating, and many other psychological problems that can stem from limitation dieting.