Free Weight Loss Tips - Fad Diets
If you only need to lose a few pounds, you may be tempted to try a 'fad' diet for reducing your calorie consumption. These diets can work, but you should be aware of their associated problems:
- Studies have shown that the majority of people who use these diets, will gain the weight back. Often times, they will gain back more than they lost. This is a consequence that most people do not consider. They drink a weight loss shake, or eat a special food for a few months and lose a large amount of weight, but what happens when it's time to go back to regular food? Most people usually start gaining weight again.
- Without effective behaviour modification, after completing a diet, you will most likely go back to your old eating habits. You cannot remain on fad diets forever, and sooner or later you have to face real food again.
- Any successful weight loss will require a permanent change in eating habits. A good program should not only help you lose fat, it should also help you to develop the correct eating habits necessary to maintain your new body.
- You will lose more muscle mass than body fat. Muscle burns more calories than fat - this helps to keep your metabolism elevated. Muscle also gives you a shapely, firm and more defined physique.
- If you end up with less muscle than when you started, you can bet that your metabolism has been slowed a great deal, which, in the long run, means your body will be burning fewer calories and storing more fat.
- Although you may get down to the weight that you desire, you will have more body fat, less muscle mass and no muscle tone. People who have a history of dieting off and on (yo-yo dieting), will lose weight and look thinner, but still remain very soft or "jiggly". This type of dieting is notorious for weakening the immune system.
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