Not surprisingly, many people wonder why fad diets are bad when they seem to work. You will find many sites on the Internet claiming significant weight loss in just a few days. This type of weight loss is always temporary. It is usually 90% water that will be put back on immediately as soon as your body rehydrates, which it should do if you don't suffer from serious health problems or die.
Other fad diets are not so obviously accidental diets with outrageous claims, but they are about fad diets that tend to be in fashion for a while and usually bring in a lot of money to the inventor in sales of associated products. At best, these are good nutritional plans that will help you lose weight, but which you probably could have gotten for free from your doctor. In the worst case, they will prove so difficult to follow that you will give up after a week.
1. Diets that promise quick and easy weight loss are usually based on eating several types of foods and none of the others. These do not provide the benefits you would get from a balanced diet. They may suggest that you take supplements, but many supplements are not absorbed by the body unless they are taken with foods that are prohibited by the diet. After a few weeks, if you stick with it for that long, you may begin to develop nutritional deficiencies.
2. Fad diets are often boring and too restrictive. After the novelty of the first day or two, you won't enjoy your meals. You will then begin to constantly crave food and break the diet. You may even feel guilty thinking that it's your fault that you haven't lost weight.
3. Most fad diets do not follow the recommendations of the American Heart Association and other similar organizations for fat levels in the diet. Often, the diet will recommend high-fat, low-carbohydrate foods that, if taken over the long term, could lead to heart disease. Sponsors may tell you that the diet is only intended to be followed for a short period of time. But you probably won't reach your weight goal during that time, so what? Either you continue with a plan that is not good for your health, or you stop and probably regain what you have lost.
4. Many fad diets don't help you incorporate enough servings of fruits and vegetables into your weight loss program, or give you the variety of foods your body needs.
5. Quick weight loss diets are only a temporary solution and do not help you make permanent changes to your eating habits. Permanent changes are the only way to stay at your target weight once you reach it. Fad diets encourage yo-yo diet cycles of rapid weight loss and equally rapid weight gain. This is worse for your health and self-esteem than if you were constantly overweight.
No matter what the advertising says, these diets will not help you in the long run. The best way to maintain weight loss is to eat a varied and healthy diet, not overeat, exercise regularly and avoid fad diets.
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