Dieting has become a national passtime. There are practically more fad diets than there are dieters these days.
Here is how these 'fad diets' are suppose to work: For a short period of time (10 days to 1 month), your diet is restricted to a select collection of bad-tasting health foods or recipes. Also, you're told to minimize your eating in this period. The diets vary a lot but generally fats are completely avoided in these diets.
Unfortunately, your body reacts badly to this treatment. As a reaction of this 'starvation diet', initially your body cells lose water and there is a rapid apparent loss of weight (due to water loss). After the initial water loss period, as you continue to starve, your body starts to burn your muscle mass in order to keep up with the energy needs.
As you avoid fats in your diet in this period, your body will try to preserve every pound of fat that it has in its store. If you keep this up for about a month then your body will finally run out of muscle to burn and will eventually start burning fat. For most dieters, most of the time, this is just too long. They get discouraged and either start something new or just give up and then all they have accomplished is to lose muscle.
This is how fad diets fail, almost 100% of the time. When the dieter gives up and starts feed the body once again, once again the body reacts badly. It stores most of the incoming food as fat. People who go on fad diets usually end up heavier than they started. This is where the term 'yo-yo' diet comes from. It's best just to stick to a reasonable low calorie diet over a long period of time while at the same time sticking to a moderate exercise plan. Just make sure that you check with your doctor before you start any exercise or weight loss plan.
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