I hear these anecdotes in many forms, and in my experience the real shared causative factor is making a decision to change, and acting on it. I don't know if it matters what that change is, as long as it's healthy and changes the math of caloriesin - caloriesout. In other words, I wonder if it's the decision and willingness to make hard changes, rather than the specific nature of those changes, which is the real active ingredient in weight loss; I suspect so.
Examples:
Started walking.
Started cycling.
Cut out processed foods.
Switched to a specific lifestyle diet.
Took up some kind of sport.
Cut out sugar/went Atkins/Keto/Paleo.
I don't think there's a wrong way to break a series of bad habits and build new ones, and I think the hardest part is deciding to do it, and sticking with it.
Examples:
Started walking.
Started cycling.
Cut out processed foods.
Switched to a specific lifestyle diet.
Took up some kind of sport.
Cut out sugar/went Atkins/Keto/Paleo.
I don't think there's a wrong way to break a series of bad habits and build new ones, and I think the hardest part is deciding to do it, and sticking with it.