Today is a new day, plump to the point of bursting with opportunity. A whole world of positive life changes are dangling precariously from the edge of the horizon, just waiting for you to grab hold of them and pull them in for a bear hug made out of personal development. Now comes the hard part: picking which self-actualization row to hoe.

With so many sure-fire ways to go from dad bod to rad bod, it can be difficult to decide which fad diet is going to permanently and irrevocably transform your body into a monument to Atlas, so here’s the good news: you can at least narrow the field through the process of elimination. This week, U.S. News and World Report posted their annual list of the best and worst diets making the rounds, and the “keto diet” came in dead last.

The list takes several factors into account, including “nutritional completeness” and the long and short term potential for weight loss. High-fat/low-carb combinations like the keto diet had a decent score for short-term weight loss, but ate it in other categories, especially on account of the difficulties of continuing them over long periods of time.

The key to your diet woes may not be keto

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