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Two Major Reasons Why Fad Diets Do Not Work
February 4th, 2009 | 
Author: Fad Diets
Two Major Reasons Why Fad Diets
Do Not Work
Have you ever seen popular magazines on a newstands? Majority of them
have some well thought headline on their cover - “Skinny And Toned For This Summer” or “How To Lose 35Lbs With This Nutrition Bar” or “Get Ripped, Show Your Six Pack And Say Goodbye To Your Love-Handels” etc, etc…
All these are just brainwashing you, the general public, about some new
fad diet craze.
Now I have promised myself to take an action step, that will help you spot
Fad Diets in a second. That will prevent you from yo-yo-dieting or frustration many of these fad diets put on your shoulders.
Reason No. 1 Why Fad Diets Do Not Work:
This one is just common sense. Look around you! Do you see fat people walking around? Now look at how many fad diets are out there – Zone, Atkins, South Beach Diet, Nutra-System, La Diet, Jenny Craig Diet and thousands of others.
Now, if there are thousands of fad diets on todays market place, don’t you think that you should see less and less fat people around?
It would make sense, but the opposite is true. For which my common sense responds, that fad diets do not work! If they would, you would see skinny people all day long.
Reason No. 2 Why Fad Diets Do Not Work:
This reason is more science based. Many fad diets will want you to drastically cut down on calories, will remove certain food groups from your list and let you starve!
That is not healthy way of eating. Why? Well, if you starve yourself, your body naturally responds and your inside mechanism switch to a fat storage mode.
It’s unconscious and you can not do anything about it when it happens. Basically your brain thinks that you do not have extra food, like from the times of famine and to protect itself it starts to collect as much fat as possible. This fat is supposed to keep you going a bit.
You see, your brain doesn’t know that you live right next to the supermarket, it does not recognize that you starve yourself “willingly” based on a fad diet.
So what is your goal?
First, you really do not want to follow any fad diet out there, and I do not care what the “diet guru” who came up with that fad diet says.
Second, you want to make sure that you never put your body into that “unconscious starvation mode” switch.
And when you combine that with a regular exercise, like walking, swimming, weight-lifting or what ever exercise you like, you will start seeing dramatic results in terms of healthy fat loss.
Remember: stop looking for a fad diets and change your lifestyle habits to become healthier you again.
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How An Entire Year Could Go By With No Results
How an Entire Year Could Go By With No Results
By Tom Venuto
www.BurnTheFat.com
QUESTION: Dear Tom: I’ve been going to the gym for the past year now, but I have only lost 2 pounds. I eat about 1800 calories a day and I do 3 cardio and 3 weight training sessions a week. I am 5 feet 5 inches and 128 lbs. I would like to be at 120 lbs.
To lose 8 more lbs isn’t a lot to ask, but I’m really frustrated. I’ve been VERY persistent, and I rarely cheat except once each weekend, but at this rate, it will take me another 4 years for me to reach my goal! Please help!
Vicky
ANSWER:
First, it’s important that you understand how a year could go by with almost no progress.
Have you been doing the same nutrition, same calories, same cardio, same weight training and the same intensity for the entire past year with no changes?
If so, then you shouldn’t be suprised if you’ve continued to get the SAME results (very little).
If you do more of the same, you usually get more of the same.
Calories have to be calculated and customized for each individual in the beginning and then adjusted continuously in “real time” during the course of a fat loss program, based on actual results.
Just because you start at 1800 doesn’t mean your caloric intake should stay there.
Calories may need to be increased or decreased depending on whether your goals, your body weight and your activity levels change and based on your weekly progress (or lack of).
Which brings me to another point. I am a huge fan of using progress charts. There is a saying in business management and sports coaching:
“What gets measured gets done.”
When you start “keeping score” and tracking performance right down to the numbers, it’s almost miraculous how this awareness of how you’re doing translates into improved results.
When you track your body composition results every week, if a week or two goes by with no results, then you don’t continue with more of what got you no results, you change some variable in your program immediately!
An old Turkish proverb that says,
“No matter how far you’ve traveled down the wrong road, always turn back!”
Of course, you don’t have to throw out your entire program, you can simply “tweak” ONE or maybe two variables within the same program.
Also, when you measure, track and analyze muscle versus fat (body composition), instead of just scale weight, you might even discover you’ve gained some lean body mass and this offsets the drop on the scale (which means it’s possible you made more progress than you thought).
Now, back to the calories. To break a plateau, you can take a reduction in calories, or an increase in activity, either of which will create a deficit if you are currently in energy balance, or increase your existing caloric deficit.
1800 calories may not provide a large enough deficit for some women, and in fact, the majority of women your height, weight and activity level usually are losing fat safely and successfully on 1500-1600 calories per day. (for men about 2200-2500 calories, avg.)
At the end of the day, fat loss boils down to calories in versus calories out, so if you plateau, you may need a simple calorie reduction, provided you don’t restrict too low for too long (which tends to trigger your body’s “starvation response.”)
As for your cardio program, 3 days a week of cardio works for many people, but usually, I would consider three weekly cardio sesssions a maintenenance workout or at best a starting point for beginners, NOT a “maximum fat loss” program.
Example: this week, you could increase your cardio from 3 sessions to 4 sessions. If you combine the decrease in food intake with an increase in calories burned through activity, that will almost certainly get you burning fat again.
If it does, then stay with 4 days a week of cardio. If not, the next week go up to 5 days a week. Repeat this simple “feedback loop” process as many times and for as long as necessary.
Also remember that more (often) is not always better. You can also increase the intensity and get more calories burned in same amount of time. This feedback loop process can be used to make decisions about your training intensity, duration and type, as well as frequency.
Whichever strategy you choose to break the plateau, remember Albert Einstein’s definition of insanity:
“Insanity is to keep doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.”
Although this seems like common sense to some people, what happened to you is really quite common because it does appear that you’re doing everything you’re “supposed to be doing” with perfectly good intentions.
You have have all the key elements there:
You’re exercising (weights and cardio). You’re watching your nutrition, and you’ve been disciplined and consistent in following it.
The trouble with many popular programs – even good ones – is that they are too dogmatic. Their entire program may revolve around “X” number of calories, “X” days per week of cardio and “X” days a week of weights….
And you’re not allowed to “tamper” with that “holy grail” formula.
I can understand the rationale for a simple diet and exercise prescription for a beginner in order to not confuse them with too many choices, but what if it doesnt work after a month, three months, six months, A WHOLE YEAR? What if there are no options, what then?
In NLP, there’s a principle, (borrowed from cybernetics), called The Law of Requisite Variety, which says,
“The person with the most flexibility is the person with the most power and the greatest chance for success.”
You need to know what to do when you’re not getting results… you need options and choices for breaking plateaus, and that’s important because plateaus happen to everyone – including me.
Some people think that hitting a fat loss plateau means there’s something wrong with them. But plateaus are natural and normal.
In fact, you could look at it this way:
Exercise is a stress. Dieting is a stress. It’s natural for your body to adapt to them. When you adapt, you must place a new “positive stress” on the body if you want continued improvement.
If you want to learn more details about how to change your program to break plateaus and make continuous progress as fast as safely possible, then I recommend you take a look at Burn the Fat, Feed The Muscle (BFFM).
BFFM has flexibility, feedback and performance tracking built right into it. Chapter 4 in BFFM teaches the “BFFM feedback loop method”, and shows you how to chart progress and adjust your diet and workouts on a weekly basis, to keep you making progress or get you back on track if your progress stalls out.
There is no reason to allow even a few weeks, let alone an entire year to go by without results. But you can’t expect to get different results if you continue doing more of what’s not working.
Keep after it! Be persistent… but also be flexible!
Tom Venuto, CSCS, NSCA-CPT
www.BurnTheFat.com
About the Author:
Tom Venuto is a natural bodybuilder, certified strength and conditioning specialist (CSCS) and a certified personal trainer (CPT). Tom is the author of “Burn the Fat, Feed The Muscle,” which teaches you how to get lean without drugs or supplements using methods of the world’s best bodybuilders and fitness models. Learn how to get rid of stubborn fat and increase your metabolism by visiting: BurnTheFat.com
Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle
Burn The Fat Feed The Muscle
Why Is Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle The Best Selling E-Book In Internet History, With Thousands Of Satisfied (And Now Fat-Free) Users In 133 Countries from Algeria to Zimbabwe?
Burn The Fat Feed The Muscle
Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle is the #1 best selling diet and fitness ebook in the history of the Internet. In fact, it’s one of the best selling e-books on ANY subject in the history of the Internet -… And there’s a reason why…
It’s because thousands of women and men of every age are burning off BODY FAT – not muscle or water weight – and they’re doing it naturally, without supplements, pills or “magic potions,” simply by using the proven, scientifically-accurate and common-sense advice found inside this amazing diet and fitness guidebook.
Tom Venuto, a respected fat loss expert, natural bodybuilder, and personal trainer, has not just pumped out yet another “diet program” into an already over-saturated market. Tom’s Burn the Fat can be more accurately described as a “Fat Loss Bible.” It is quite simply one of the most complete, detailed, and precise guides to fat loss you will ever read.
What makes it so much different than other weight loss publications on the market?
Well first of all, it’s not a “weight loss” program, it’s a “fat” loss program. This may seem like semantics or wordplay at first, but once you’ve read just the first three chapters, there will be no doubt in your mind that pursuing “weight loss” is not only the wrong goal, it may be the reason that you’ve failed to reach and maintain your ideal body weight.
Burn The Fat shows you exactly why it’s fat you must lose, not “weight” (which includes muscle, water and other lean tissue) and then goes on to show you exactly how to do it.
Secondly, what makes Burn The Fat different is the amount of attention that is paid to each and every element of successful, healthy, permanent fat loss.
Burn The Fat not only thoroughly dispels the lies, myths and fallacies surrounding a very confusing subject, it is simply the most detailed book about fat loss ever written.
By reading Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle, (or better yet, “studying it”), you will learn more about fat loss than you could from an entire semester of nutrition classes or from an entire shelf of maintstream diet publications at your local bookstore.
You may be wondering, “Is this a low carb diet? A high protein diet? A high fat diet? what type of program IS it???”
The truth is that Burn the Fat is neither a high protein diet, or a low carb diet. That’s because with the information in this book, you will be able to easily determine your own ideal protein, carbs and fats ratio.
You will be able to analyze your body type (are you an endomorph, ectomorph, or mesomorph?), you will determine your BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate, or the amount of “maintenance” calories your body requires every day), and you will find out whether you are carb tolerant or carb intolerant.
This personalized approach makes perfect sense because each of us is a unique individual and no two people are exactly alike in terms of body physiology and personal goals.
One of the most powerful chapters in the book is the first one called, “How To Set Powerful, Compelling Goals That Will Propel You Forward and Charge You Up with Unstoppable Motivation.” In this chapter, you will learn what is probably the ultimate secret to burning fat and getting in shape… and it has nothing to do with diets, supplements or training programs.
There’s also a great quote in this chapter from the legendary Green Bay Packers coach, Vince Lombardi…
“The dictionary is the only place success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must all pay for success.” That line does a nice job of expressing the “no quick fix” philosophy behind the entire book.
In the rest of the book, you’ll learn the complete and exact mechanics of fat loss – explained on both a scientific and a practical level (which you can easily apply in your own daily life in terms of what to eat and how to exercise to burn fat).
If there is any drawback to the Burn The Fat ebook, it’s that it contains so much information, that some readers may find it a bit overwhelming. Those who are looking for a “cliff’s Note’s” quick start type of fat loss program, might be a bit intimated at first.
The good part however, is that even these types of readers can feel confident and assured that it will be worth the effort because this will literally be the last book they ever have to buy on the subject.
Who will benefit most from Burn the Fat, Feed The Muscle?
In the broadest sense, anyone and everyone who needs to lose weight will benefit from Burn The Fat. Men, women, bodybuilders, fitness enthusiasts, and especially motivated individuals and avid readers will love this book. Although it was written by a bodybuilder, this book is certainly NOT just for bodybuilders.
You will find no “30 lbs. in 30 days” miracles at work here. It’s all about intelligent eating choices, planning, hard work and lifestyle change. As Burn The Fat author Tom Venuto says,…
“Burn the Fat is simple, but it’s not easy.”
In terms of graphic design, Burn the Fat is a clean and professionally formatted PDF e-book. It’s a little on the plain side, being just text, but that makes it ideal for printing and reading in the comfort of a favorite chair. Because of it’s size, it does require a robust printer and a good stack of paper.
Initially, some people thought that Burn the Fat was priced a little on the high side because $39 might seem like a fair chunk of money for an ebook download. However, after they saw the amount of information contained within Burn The Fat’s 340 pages, along with the special bonus ebooks and reports that come with it, they said it was not only worth the $39, but many times that amount.
As with any how-to publication, you’re not really paying for the materials used to compile the document, but for what the information can do for you, and clearly, this publication has changed many lives and the hundreds of testimonials and success stories found on the Burn The Fat website are proof of that (I recommend you take a look at that “testimonials” page on the Burn The Fat website because some of the before and after transformations are simply incredible – as well as inspiring).
The Bottom line?
Anyone looking for a quick fix solution to fat loss, anyone looking to be told fairy-tales, and anyone looking for a “magic bullet” offered by the likes of body wraps, fat burning pills, diet shakes, or “fat-burning” creams and gels might be best advised to steer clear of Burn the Fat.
On the other hand, anyone tired of “spinning their wheels” going nowhere, who wants the truth about fat loss and who is ready and willing to put in the hard work and discipline and make the lifestyle changes necessary to get a fat free body, will find Burn The fat to be one of the best investments they ever made in their lives. Click here to learn more about Tom Venuto’s Burn the Fat
Tom Venuto
I really think that Tom Venuto is as close to my “healthy weight loss without dieting” philosophy as possible. Therefore I recommend to read his Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle book to all my clients and now to all readers of my stopdietingbotcamp.com blog. Of course, if you still want to yo-yo-diet and spend hundreds of dollars per year on fad diets, you really do not need to read this awesome book.
I wish you good luck to your dream body,
Brett Slansky
Your Healthy Weight Management Coach
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Healthy Eating
Healthy Eating
Do You Still Think That Diet Is The Same Thing
As A Healthy Eating?
Do you? Well I hope that information on this page will change your mind very quickly. Because diet and healthy eating habits are just two completely different things.
So what is a diet?
Diet is a simply stated a way of eating! Diet is not something you go to lose weight as many people believe. And I do not blame them. The media used the word “Diet” and made it as a synonymum for “losing weight” - and I am here to challenge the media, expert authors or whoever tries to convince you that you will lose weight on a diet.
Now, what is your diet? Well, take a pen and paper right now! Go and take a look inside your fridge and write down what do you see.
Do you see fresh fruits, vegetables, lean chicken breasts, fish etc…? Or
do you see cans of fruits, frozen vegetables, burgers, sausages and a piece of McDonald Cheeseburger from your last lunch?
Think about what you have just done for a moment.
Now. Conclude your own resolution. Is it healthy eating what you are doing? Or is it not healthy eating, based on what you saw in your refridgerator?
Now, which one is a diet? Clue: Both!
One is good diet, or “healthy eating diet”. The second one is what I call “junk diet” and it is not healthy, but it is a form of a diet!
So all you have to do is change your healthy eating habits! And your own body will do all the rest by itself. No need to count your calories, remove certain foods from your diet or taking some “miracle weight loss pill”.
What Is Healthy Eating?
I am glad you asked!
Healthy eating is a simply balanced diet which includes all the nutrients necessary for your body to function at your maximum best potential.
Healthy eating will consist of consuming protein, healthy carbs, fiber and pytonutrient rich fruits or vegetables. When all mixed together, your plate will look nice and fresh. The best part of this healthy eating habits is that you will be eating foods you normally eat anyway. But this time we will change it a bit.
I hope you got the basic idea I am trying to get inside your head. It is a “secret” many gurus will not tell you (because they will be not able to sell you on somethig, losing your money…psssst I did not tell you this, ok?)…
Inside this blog, you will get many ideas about healthy eating, what are the good carbs and bad carbs, healthy recipes etc…
So if you really want to change you eating habits, burn fat like never before – I urge you to visit this Stop Dieting Bootcamp very often. The easiest way would be to submit to my RSS feeds…Just a suggestion
To Your Healthy Eating Habits Change,
Brett Slansky
Your Healthy Weight Management Coach
