About 127 million Americans, that's over 60% of all adults, are overweight. I'm sure that all these people don't want to be overweight, and a lot of them are probably trying their hardest to get it under control. Yet, for whatever reason, it just doesn't work.
I think they try, and follow diet after diet, only to have none of them work out. That's because there's something essentially wrong with all of these diets. They focus on making you lose as much weight as fast as possible, and give no thought to proper health or nutrition - the result? They work great for a week, and then you gain more weight then ever.
If you want to really lose weight, you need a way to guess whether the diet will work for you, without having to go through the hassle of buying it and spending a month trying it out. Here I'll tell you what to look for in the advertising spiels so you can tell the fake from the functional.
The first thing to check is the guarantee. If there's no money back guarantee, don't bother. If it doesn't help you lose at least a little weight within the first month, it's probably not going to work and you might as well send it back.
Besides that, take a look at how long they say it will take to lose weight. Surprisingly, the longer is better here, because it means the diet is more likely to be real. If they tell you that you can take of 5lb in the first week, then that's believable. 10lb and I'd raise an eyebrow. Anything more then that is very suspicious.
How fast can you safely lose weight? 14lb in 14 days is of course possible, but it's a terrible idea, and it is certainly not possible to maintain it. The best diets will not give you any guarantees of time or weight, because everyone is different, and there is no way to know for sure how fast someone will lose weight, no matter how good the diet may be.
Of course, there are exceptions. For instance, I know one person who was 60lb overweight. She made the effort to go to the gym every day for three hours, and lose 20lb in a week. So I know it can be done, but these diets programs are not telling you to go work out for hours every day, they are telling you to eat, and often to eat more then you normally would. Does that seem smart to you? No, of course not. And it isn't.
Any diet telling you not to worry about the amount you eat is either straight out lying to you, or they want you to eat food so unhealthy that your body can't use any of it, and it just gets passed straight through. You'll certainly lose weight then, but you'll be starving, and if you keep going you'll eventually kill yourself with it.
So if the program promises you will gradually lose weight, then that's a point in their favor. If they give a reasonable timeframe, and make suggestions that don't fly in the face of common sense, then it's probably not a fad. If they give good suggestions, perhaps providing workout routines and recipe guides, then it just might be worth trying. Remember, there's more to dieting then a single fancy trick - stay away from anything that promises quick gains for a small change, or worse yet, tells you to cut out a whole food group. - 14915
I think they try, and follow diet after diet, only to have none of them work out. That's because there's something essentially wrong with all of these diets. They focus on making you lose as much weight as fast as possible, and give no thought to proper health or nutrition - the result? They work great for a week, and then you gain more weight then ever.
If you want to really lose weight, you need a way to guess whether the diet will work for you, without having to go through the hassle of buying it and spending a month trying it out. Here I'll tell you what to look for in the advertising spiels so you can tell the fake from the functional.
The first thing to check is the guarantee. If there's no money back guarantee, don't bother. If it doesn't help you lose at least a little weight within the first month, it's probably not going to work and you might as well send it back.
Besides that, take a look at how long they say it will take to lose weight. Surprisingly, the longer is better here, because it means the diet is more likely to be real. If they tell you that you can take of 5lb in the first week, then that's believable. 10lb and I'd raise an eyebrow. Anything more then that is very suspicious.
How fast can you safely lose weight? 14lb in 14 days is of course possible, but it's a terrible idea, and it is certainly not possible to maintain it. The best diets will not give you any guarantees of time or weight, because everyone is different, and there is no way to know for sure how fast someone will lose weight, no matter how good the diet may be.
Of course, there are exceptions. For instance, I know one person who was 60lb overweight. She made the effort to go to the gym every day for three hours, and lose 20lb in a week. So I know it can be done, but these diets programs are not telling you to go work out for hours every day, they are telling you to eat, and often to eat more then you normally would. Does that seem smart to you? No, of course not. And it isn't.
Any diet telling you not to worry about the amount you eat is either straight out lying to you, or they want you to eat food so unhealthy that your body can't use any of it, and it just gets passed straight through. You'll certainly lose weight then, but you'll be starving, and if you keep going you'll eventually kill yourself with it.
So if the program promises you will gradually lose weight, then that's a point in their favor. If they give a reasonable timeframe, and make suggestions that don't fly in the face of common sense, then it's probably not a fad. If they give good suggestions, perhaps providing workout routines and recipe guides, then it just might be worth trying. Remember, there's more to dieting then a single fancy trick - stay away from anything that promises quick gains for a small change, or worse yet, tells you to cut out a whole food group. - 14915
About the Author:
Johanna Williams is a respected expert in the fields of nutrition and dieting. After learning about a popular but mistaken weight loss tehnique, she decided to put together a site to tell people which fat loss products are actually useful.
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