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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