The Latest Fad Diets

The only reason why these fad diets work is because of a caloric restriction. The reason why people think no-carb diets work is because they’re literally losing water weight (they lose glycogen stores that hold water)

— ang (@heartives) November 10, 2018

Eating off a blue plate is supposed to make you feel less inclined to carry on eating. I've eaten off blue plates and it's done nothing to stop me finishing my meal! The baby food diet: Believed to give you lots of nutrients in small portions. If it were designed for adult consumption it would be in all your cupboards! Phase two allows more carbohydrates each week selected from a food ladder. The dieter gets an increase of five grams of carbohydrates per week from a different food group each week during this phase. The next phase increases the carbohydrates until weight loss stops. Once the dieter reaches the final weight goal the maintenance phase kicks begins. The Atkins diet shows immediate weight loss but is difficult to stick to because of rigid eating patterns.

• The diet does not include an evaluation of food habits
• Decrease the number of calories you take in
• Chicken soup diet
• The diet provides less than 1200 kcalories per day
• Grapefruit diet
• Total fat consumption is less than 25% essential fatty
• The Liquid Diet

Basically if the diet is based on eating mostly protein and no carbs, carbs and no protein or no fat it is not a healthy diet. It is also a fad diet if it is based on eating only one food such as a grapefruit only diet or fatty foods only diet. You just don't get all of the nutrition that you need eating this way. You need to eat a variety of foods in order to stay healthy. When your body is in starvation mode, it begins to use muscle for energy, not fat. This may cause a drop on the scale, but it's not good. Muscle burns more calories than fat and if you begin to lose muscle, then you'll lower your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR), which is the rate at which your body burns calories just doing nothing. When you begin to eat a higher level of calories, your body is no longer prepared to handle it, and you will gain weight again.

The thing is, sensible diet plans don't seem to be important with many of the fad diets. There are two main reasons that people want to lose weight - to both improve their health and/or to look better. They might lose weight short term on fad diets, but for the long term, the approach isn't always the healthiest.

4. You don't exercise.

3. You lose water weight. The weight that initially comes off during a fad diet is water weight. This is not a true fat loss. When you begin to eat more, you will see the weight come back on. 4. You don't exercise. Many fad diets' claim to fame is that you will lose weight without having to exercise. Most people are always on the lookout for a "magic weight loss pill" so they try new fads hoping they will find it. Decide to make a change in your lifestyle starting today. This is easier said than done, and it will not be smooth sailing all the way! Changing the way we look at food and how we relate to eating, is the fist step in any lasting weight loss plan.

Fad diets come and go. Atkins, South Beach Diet, Grapefruit Diet, Flat Belly Diet, Slim Fast, Cabbage Soup Diet, etc. Do you know what all these diets have in common, You should know about the dangers of fad dieting so you can make an intelligent decision about what eating approach is best for you. Drastically reducing calories is one way of dieting that has been popular for decades. Yes, you can see some results in the beginning, but those results quickly slow down as your metabolism adjusts to the new calorie intake.