I love playing armchair psychologist as much as the next Kiwi, but I genuinely don't think this is even mania. It's a cry for attention. AL knows she'll get praise just for claiming she's making life changes, regardless of whether or not she follows through. I don't think she ever intends to stick to her diets, or at least that she doesn't believe she'll actually be able to. She makes the claim so she can get asspats, and then she continues to do what she always does. At this point, she has a large enough audience that she still gets a handful of people who will praise these false claims whenever they're made, and that's why she makes them. If we're craving an armchair diagnosis, AL displays signs of a personality disorder, along the lines of narcissistic personality or histrionic personality, more than anything.
