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 believe that no matter how many diets they follow, they never find one that works well in the long term. It's nice to have quick results, but if you can't keep them up, you may as well not start to begin with. A lot of the quick loss diets do worse then that though, they actually make you gain weight a few weeks after losing it.
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 the guarantee, you should also look at how much time you need to notice the effects. Surprisingly, the longer this time is the more likely the diet is to be real. If they say anything more then 10lb a week, I'd get suspicious. The best diets usually offer 5lb or less weight loss per week.
You can't be too careful with your health, a dumping a load of fat very quickly will wreak havoc with your system. Besides which, even if you do get the weight off, you need a long term plan to make sure it stays off. It's rare for a diet to keep working months after you've used it to lose weight, and even rarer for someone to want to stick to the diet!
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.
If they say you don't need to worry about the amount of food you eat, then it's either a scam, or they want you to gorge on completely non-nutritious foods so that you feel full, while getting absolutely no benefit. that is incredibly unhealthy, and can often cause serious permanent health problems, much worse then just being overweight.
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. - 16083
I believe that no matter how many diets they follow, they never find one that works well in the long term. It's nice to have quick results, but if you can't keep them up, you may as well not start to begin with. A lot of the quick loss diets do worse then that though, they actually make you gain weight a few weeks after losing it.
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 the guarantee, you should also look at how much time you need to notice the effects. Surprisingly, the longer this time is the more likely the diet is to be real. If they say anything more then 10lb a week, I'd get suspicious. The best diets usually offer 5lb or less weight loss per week.
You can't be too careful with your health, a dumping a load of fat very quickly will wreak havoc with your system. Besides which, even if you do get the weight off, you need a long term plan to make sure it stays off. It's rare for a diet to keep working months after you've used it to lose weight, and even rarer for someone to want to stick to the diet!
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.
If they say you don't need to worry about the amount of food you eat, then it's either a scam, or they want you to gorge on completely non-nutritious foods so that you feel full, while getting absolutely no benefit. that is incredibly unhealthy, and can often cause serious permanent health problems, much worse then just being overweight.
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. - 16083
About the Author:
Johanna Williams is a respected expert in the fields of nutrition and dieting. After learning about a popular but mistaken technique to lose weight, she decided to put together a site to tell people which fat loss products are actually useful.
