Should I Try A Fad Diet?
submitted: Jul 10th 2008 |
by: GregSmithers |
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If you do a fad diet and it helps you lose weight fast and get results, what can be wrong with that? Surely you have seen many ads on the internet and in magazines that say that you can get a huge weight loss in only a few days time.
While it is possible to lose weight rapidly on a fad diet, the bad news is that the loss is usually only temporary. Most of the initial loss is related to a loss of water weight. A large percentage of body weight related to water and when your body rehydrates the initial weight loss is put right back on.
What are some of the reasons a fad diet is not good for you?
1. Fad diets typically get you to avoid most foods except a single food type. This can result in missing the nutrition you need which is available from a balanced approach.
Vitamins and supplements are often recommended while on a fad diet. Unfortunately, the diet may be lacking in essential foods which help the body absorb these extra nutrients.
2. Fad diets are often overly restrictive which can result in strong cravings for other foods. This in turn can lead to breaking the diet early and lower your self esteem suggesting that you didn't have the willpower to stick to it.
3. Fad diets are temporary solutions to your weight problems. Even if you do follow through to the end with a fad diet you have not made permanent healthy changes to the way you handle food in your life. So fad dieters tend to be yo-yo dieters that go back and forth between extreme lo-calorie fad diets to periods of bingeing on food groups that were missing from the fad diet. So fad dieters are on a roller coaster of gaining and losing the same darn pounds again and again.
Even though your favourite magazine may rave about the latest fad diet, you should be aware that most of them never work in the long term.
The best way to lose weight and sustain that weight loss (so you never have to diet again) is to eat a variety of healthy foods, avoid overeating, and do regular exercise. This simple formula works every time.
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