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 very first thing to take a look at is the guarantee they provide. If there isn't any guarantee, or they only offer you a very short one, don't take it. However long they promise it will take for you to notice the effects, I suggest you make sure the guarantee is for double that long. You don't want to have the diet fail you right after the guarantee expires.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If any dieting scheme promises slow constant weight loss, with a reasonable timeframe, then it's probably real. If they offer a good mix of workouts and recipes, then it just might be worth giving a try. Just make sure you stay clear of anything telling you to avoid a food group, no god can come of that. There's no magic bullet for weight loss. - 16492
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 very first thing to take a look at is the guarantee they provide. If there isn't any guarantee, or they only offer you a very short one, don't take it. However long they promise it will take for you to notice the effects, I suggest you make sure the guarantee is for double that long. You don't want to have the diet fail you right after the guarantee expires.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If any dieting scheme promises slow constant weight loss, with a reasonable timeframe, then it's probably real. If they offer a good mix of workouts and recipes, then it just might be worth giving a try. Just make sure you stay clear of anything telling you to avoid a food group, no god can come of that. There's no magic bullet for weight loss. - 16492
About the Author:
Author Johanna Williams is a respected expert in the fields of dieting and nutrition. After hearing about a popular but mistaken technique to lose weight, she decided to put together a site to tell people which fat loss products really work.
