About 127 million Americans, that's over 60% of all adults, are overweight. I'm sure that all these people don't want to be overweight, and a lot of them are probably trying their hardest to get it under control. Yet, for whatever reason, it just doesn't work.
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.
So, if you want to find a real diet that actually works, you need some way of telling which are the fake ones. Here, I'm going to give you the information you need to pick out the diets that can make you lose weight, and keep it off. Before you even buy the book.
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.
You can't be too careful with your health, a dumping a load of fat very quickly will wreak havoc with your system. Besides which, even if you do get the weight off, you need a long term plan to make sure it stays off. It's rare for a diet to keep working months after you've used it to lose weight, and even rarer for someone to want to stick to the diet!
Now, not all diets are like that, and there are ways to lose weight extremely quickly without problems. For instance, I knew a woman who lost 20lbs in a week. How did she do it? Three hours a day, every day, in the gym, working it off. It was very hard work, but she succeeded. These diets aren't saying "Go work out" though, are they? No, the tell you to eat, and often to eat as much or more then you normally do. Does that make sense to you? Because it doesn't to me.
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. - 15995
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.
So, if you want to find a real diet that actually works, you need some way of telling which are the fake ones. Here, I'm going to give you the information you need to pick out the diets that can make you lose weight, and keep it off. Before you even buy the book.
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.
You can't be too careful with your health, a dumping a load of fat very quickly will wreak havoc with your system. Besides which, even if you do get the weight off, you need a long term plan to make sure it stays off. It's rare for a diet to keep working months after you've used it to lose weight, and even rarer for someone to want to stick to the diet!
Now, not all diets are like that, and there are ways to lose weight extremely quickly without problems. For instance, I knew a woman who lost 20lbs in a week. How did she do it? Three hours a day, every day, in the gym, working it off. It was very hard work, but she succeeded. These diets aren't saying "Go work out" though, are they? No, the tell you to eat, and often to eat as much or more then you normally do. Does that make sense to you? Because it doesn't to me.
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. - 15995
About the Author:
Johanna Williams is a respected expert in the fields of dieting and nutrition. After learning about a popular but mistaken weight loss tehnique, she decided to put together a site telling people which fat loss products really work.
