Actually the main thing isn't technical adherence. The main thing is an alteration in our eating/thinking patterns that leads us to a healthy lifestyle. Not a diet mentality which everyone leaves, or falls off of, but a change in our relationship to food that we maintain forever.

The more we eat mimic foods, foods that artificially represent those from our past, like baking mix, artificial sweeteners, low carb candy bars etc..., the less we are breaking away. It's like a heroin addict doing methadone. He's substituting one drug for another. He's still an addict. The only way to break the addiction is to give up those foods that are poison to us.