How many diets or crazy weight loss regimes have you tried in the
past? No doubt countless. In fact, because today's society has more
overweight persons than ever before in the entire history of the human
race, weight loss regimes are among the number one practices that humans
spend so much time, effort and money on. I'm sure you would agree. But
why are so many of us still fat? Clearly these rapid-burn weight loss
regimes (i.e., fad diets) do not work, otherwise we'd all be skinny by
now, and weight problems would be a thing of the past. The following
paragraphs will relate some of the crazy fad diet ideas which clearly
have proved to be faulty and non-fruitful.
Crazy diet fad #1 - The Grapefruit Craze
This
promises rapid weight loss if you eat unlimited amounts of grapefruit
(and little else) during the day. This is based on the belief that
grapefruit speeds up one's metabolism to the point where weight will
magically start to melt away. This diet is not only based on starvation
methods but is also very dangerous and could cause one's body permanent
damage.
Crazy diet fad #2 - The "No-Carbs" Diet
I
honestly don't know who made this diet up, but when you think about it,
it makes little to no sense. Everyone knows that if you have 100g of
fat, 100g of protein, and 100g of carbs all lined up on the table - it
is the fat should be avoided due to the high kilojoule content, not the
protein or the carbs. In fact, carbs by themselves are very low
kilojoule. I've never been able to work this one out!
Crazy diet fad #3 - The Low-fat to No-fat diet
This
also makes no sense. Fat is a highly nutritious and important element
to our daily food intake. In fact, avocado, olive oil, fatty salmon and
walnuts all contain healthy omega 3 fats which are absolutely essential
to a healthy diet. If these fats are omitted or drastically cut back
from one's intake - cravings, low-energy, low-concentration and extreme
bouts of will inevitably occur. Clearly this is not how we are supposed
to eat in the long-run!
Crazy diet fad #4 - The Replacement Shakes
Although
I see no harm in swapping one meal a day with low-calorie diet shakes,
any more and a person is liable to start going crazy. That's right,
literally bonkers! You know why; it's because us humans are born to
enjoy fine food, and most days, we incorporate this into our social
life. If we are not able to sit down and enjoy a meal anymore,
depression and moodiness often take over our 'otherwise' happy or
positive self. Can this type of diet be maintained for very long? You
tell me.
Crazy diet fad #5 - Counting Calories to Lose Weight
Let's
be honest - who of us has not attempted counting our calorie
(kilojoule) intake at some point in the past? I know I have. It can sort
of be fun at first, but after a few days of it you seriously start to
go loony! Keeping this up requires a massive amount of work, not to
mention a lot of time involved in reading food labels and recipe energy
content, recording your energy consumed, and calculating your new daily
total with each consumed addition! If you want to remain reasonably
sane, then counting calories to lose weight is NOT the way to go! I'd
stay clear from this idea altogether.
Clearly, there are no rapid
weight loss diets (i.e., crazy fad diets/ crash diets) that are really
safe or suitable to conform to for very long. Attempting to burn rapid
amounts of weight off is not safe and is liable to damage your body. The
initial weight that comes off from fad diets may excite you, but this
is only water weight that you are losing, not actual fat. Rather than
attempting to lose weight rapidly you should instead undergo a healthy
diet plan and moderate exercise regime that will give you steady results
and will be achievable.
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