Did you know that over half of America is overweight, and a quarter are obese? That's right, 65% or 127 million people in the US are overweight. That's a lot of fat people, most of whom are probably working searching hard to find a real way to lose weight. So are they not trying hard enough, or do the diets not 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 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.
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. - 16955
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 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.
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. - 16955
About the Author:
Johanna Williams is a respected expert in the fields of dieting and nutrition. 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 really work.
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