More then 60% of all adults in the united states are overweight. That's 127 million people, who weigh too much. I know you don't want to be one of them, and probably most people would like to lose some weight, so why don't they do it?
I suspect the real problem is that the vast majority of fad diets, are just that - fads. They may work for the first week or so, but after that you would be better off if you had never started. You can spend years trying hundreds of different fad diets before stumbling on one that really works.
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 secret is the timing. Make sure your product has a money back guarantee, so if it doesn't work you won't be out of pocket. 30 days is plenty of time to notice some benefit, so if it doesn't help you within that time, send it back!
Besides the guarantee, you should also look at how much time you need to notice the effects. Surprisingly, the longer this time is the more likely the diet is to be real. If they say anything more then 10lb a week, I'd get suspicious. The best diets usually offer 5lb or less weight loss per week.
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.
Any diet telling you not to worry about the amount you eat is either straight out lying to you, or they want you to eat food so unhealthy that your body can't use any of it, and it just gets passed straight through. You'll certainly lose weight then, but you'll be starving, and if you keep going you'll eventually kill yourself with it.
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. - 15255
I suspect the real problem is that the vast majority of fad diets, are just that - fads. They may work for the first week or so, but after that you would be better off if you had never started. You can spend years trying hundreds of different fad diets before stumbling on one that really works.
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 secret is the timing. Make sure your product has a money back guarantee, so if it doesn't work you won't be out of pocket. 30 days is plenty of time to notice some benefit, so if it doesn't help you within that time, send it back!
Besides the guarantee, you should also look at how much time you need to notice the effects. Surprisingly, the longer this time is the more likely the diet is to be real. If they say anything more then 10lb a week, I'd get suspicious. The best diets usually offer 5lb or less weight loss per week.
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.
Any diet telling you not to worry about the amount you eat is either straight out lying to you, or they want you to eat food so unhealthy that your body can't use any of it, and it just gets passed straight through. You'll certainly lose weight then, but you'll be starving, and if you keep going you'll eventually kill yourself with it.
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. - 15255
About the Author:
Johanna Williams is a respected expert in the fields of nutrition and dieting. After learning about a popular but mistaken quick weight loss tehnique, she decided to put together a site telling people which fat loss products really work.
