Fad Diets are the Biggest Mistake You’ll Ever Make
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It’s not surprising that many people wonder why fad diets are bad when they seem to get results. You’ll find many sites on the internet claiming significant weight loss in just a few days.
Fad diets, yes, will help us lose weight. However, it’s 90% water. The water you’ve lost needs to be replenished or you’ll face serious health issues. One of them is irreversible, death.
Other fad diets are not so obviously crash diets but they’re over hyped diet plans that tend to be fashionable for a while and usually make a lot of money for the inventor in associated product sales.
At best, these are good nutrition plans which will help you lose weight, but which you could probably have gotten for free from your doctor. At worst, they prove too difficult to follow that you will give up after a week.
The bad of fad diets
1. If a diet program promises you quick and easy weight loss, it’s often based on eating certain types of food. However, consuming only some kinds of food will prevent you from getting a balanced diet.
These programs usually recommend supplements. The problem here is most of the times, the supplements they offer can’t be absorbed into the body unless you eat foods that are not allowed by the programs themselves. If you’re faithful enough to stick to your diet for several weeks, you may notice some changes, feel tired and weak due to nutritional deficiency.
2. Many fad diets are boring or ultra-strict. Fad diets that you can’t enjoy will put you back to your old habits. For example, you diet for 2 days, can’t stand what you have to eat, crave something else and, wallah, you have fallen off the train to weight loss. Then lots of people blame themselves for not losing weight.
3. Most fad diets do not follow recommendations of the American Heart Association and similar bodies. The promoters may argue that you’ll just follow the diet for a short time. But if you do not reach your desired weight in that time, then what? You either continue with a plan that is not good for your health, or stop and probably gain back what you’ve lost.
4. Your body needs a wide variety of foods. However, fad diet programs do not always provide you with sufficient intake of fruits and vegetables.
5. Fad diets are nothing but a temporary solution which does not produce permanent results. Permanent results need a permanent solution.
Yo-yo fad diets only make your weight fluctuate. And in some cases, you may end up gaining more weight than you’ve lost. The up-and-down weight issue hurts not only your health but also your self-esteem.
Whatever the publicity materials may say, these diets will not help you in the long term. The best way to sustain weight loss is to eat a varied and healthy diet, do not overeat, exercise regularly and avoid fad diets.
Thong M. Dao has been lifting weights since 2005. He loves fitness and can help you lose weight. You can find fat loss advice and weight loss information on his homepage.
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