Two Major Reasons Why Fad Diets Do Not Work
February 4, 2009 
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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.
Thanks for the good read. Guess who’s a fan of your now?
I’ll be back to read more!
Keep up the good work.
Nando
Thank you Nando…I will do all the best I can, so you will come back
Brett
Hi there,
Interesting blog, I just found it and I’m already a subscriber
I hope it’s not against netiquette but I have just begun writing
my own weight loss(I lost 30 pounds in a month, so not bad
, and I was curious if you could share
my diet for your blog readers.
My latest blog post is
rapid weight loss diet
If you want to do a link trade
that would be amazing since I want to share my weight loss success
with your readers. If I can lose that much weight then
anyone else can too. Whatever you do, never give up and you WILL
meet all your weight loss goals!
with kind regards,
Joan