Wow, two years of eating Taco Bell’s Al Fresco menu and one woman losses 54 pounds? I would be amazed if my stomach didn’t feel like revolting against me. How can one person be content to choose one of seven options, every day, for two years? Everyday? Two years? Maybe she was able to stick to the diet because her only food options became so unappetizing that she completely lost sensation in her taste buds, and only ate enough to survive. Now I am being melodramatic, but really, this diet sounds awful. After I searched the www.drivethrudiet.com site, I learned a little more about Christie’s lifestyle change. She restricted herself to 1,200 calories a day, which would make most people lose weight no matter what they are eating. She said she wanted to make sure that fast food was still a part of her life (ummm, why?) but doesn’t talk about any other actions she took to loose the weight. This concerns me because I have seen a number of crazy diets and they simply don’t make sense in the long term. My aunt ate only oatmeal, ice cream bars and unsalted popcorn for one year, and though she lost 60 pounds during her year of dieting, she binged on bacon, cream cheese, cookies and French Toast during Christmas and had gained back five pounds in less than two weeks! Fad diets can work in the short term, but over a period of years they tend to fizzle out, and most people pack on the pounds if they are not careful. Healthy living and eating may be confusing, but it is worth learning about when you are still young and figuring out what types of behaviors are best for your body. For more information on healthy eating and living, check out My Pyramid , Exercise Guide for Teens , and Live Strong Diets for Teens . If you truly want to lose weight, you must combine healthy eating habits with regular exercise. And surprisingly enough, most doctors, dieticians and people with logic would tell you that a drive thru fast food diet is not on the path towards healthy living.