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The
characteristics of quick weight loss or fad diets
Fad
diets
are quick weight loss diet programs that are
'hot’
or popular at a given time. They generally live to the
meaning
of the word
'fad'. Such quick weight loss diets are characterized by a weak
nutrition basis and usually an unproven belief.
Many such fast weight
loss diets have results but since they are not well founded on healthy
functioning of our bodies the results are not sustainable. Weight loss
achieved is usually regained in 95% of the cases.
Successful weight
loss is described as keeping the weight loss for at least a year.
Considering health risks associated with being overweight successful
weight loss is should really be keeping excess weight away for life.
Such fast diets are a
quest for rapid results. And though rapid
results are possible with healthy diets like
Fat
Loss 4 Idiots (lose 40 lbs with Calorie Shifting )
,
fad diets
unfortunately coerse the body. Also these diets apart from
being fads or weak in nutrition principle. They generally have
seven common denominators that characterize them.
1. Emphasize on some foods
Quick weight-loss diet
tend to promote or discourage particular foods
or even entire food groups. This is ill-advised. Usually this would
include strict eating guidelines.
The food groups in contention are the
macro food groups i.e. Carbohydrates, Proteins and Fats. Promotion of
any particular foods or food groups has the inherent intention to
introduce a calorie deficiency necessary for losing weight.
Remember,
weight loss is naturally hinged on the fact that if you take less
calories than you need in a day, the body will have to use its stored
calorie reserves. However, with the extremity that quick weight-loss
diet introduces calories deficiency, the body ends up reacting
completely in a different way.
In extreme calorie deficiency the body
tends to think it is starving and therefore reacts accordingly. It
lowers it BMR, saves up body fat and instead uses muscle and organ
tissue to provide energy; ketosis. The results are you will quickly
regain weight lost once you start eating a healthy nutritional diet.
You will notice with
Fat
Loss 4 Idiots (lose 40 lbs with Calorie Shifting )
that no particular food group is
sacred or demonised. It is all about how well you arrange your food.
2. Do not include exercising
Exercising is key in weight loss; this may not be what most weight
watchers would want to hear. Probably that is why a rapid weight-loss plan
never mentions it, leave alone include it.
Exercising can be used
to introduce, safely, naturally and in a healthy way, the caloric
deficiency required to lose weight. Furthermore, exerting .i.e. use of
energy by doing some physical work is the natural way your body uses
calories.
Do not get this wrong, exercising alone doesn’t
lead to weight loss. It leads to weight loss if and only if it results
to use of more calories than calories consumed. The good news is that
there are weight
loss exercising regimes that are easily included in
your lifestyle e.g. walking that can use a lot of calories. The main
problem of exercising is hunger.
After heavy use of calories, the body
demands a refill. Control of this eating impulse is central in
achieving weight loss. Otherwise without this control the result is
that your health will improve and you will feel better, lower your
stress levels, but unfortunately still maintain your pounds.
Scheduled
weight loss exercises are in fact identified as one of the top four
reasons for weight loss failure by
Fat
Loss 4 Idiots (lose 40 lbs with Calorie Shifting )
.
3. Based mainly on
unsubstantiated claim
All the macro nutrients .i.e. Carbohydrates, Proteins and Fats can
provide the body with calories. Fast
weight loss diets develop claims
around these macro nutrients without taking into consideration
lifestyles, activity level, food availability and healthy nutrition.
Carbohydrates are widely accepted by experts as the body’s
preference for supplying energy/calories. In the presence of good
nutrition and enough calories, proteins are mainly used for repair of
body tissue and organs.
The good fats are also necessary for optimal
health in supplying some energy and essential fatty acids. The exact
ratios of these macro nutrients will vary with lifestyle, health status
etc. But always remember that the default setting of your body is to
first supply energy with whatever you eat, then repair tissues and
finally store excess calories.
In most developed countries e.g. U.S,
Europe, it is recommended that most of your calories be from
Carbohydrates (55%), then Fats (30%). Proteins (15%) will then be used
by the body for maintenance of tissues and growth.
Drastic changes of
these ratios, for example Proteins at 40%, could have negative effects
like straining the kidneys.
4. Designed expressly for
rapid weight loss
All quick
weight-loss diets entail a weight loss program
designed for a
rapid weight loss. In fact many of them if followed may result to
drastic loss of weight.
Research on the other hand has shown that
weight that has been lost very fast is regained in about a year. Weight
loss of more than half a pound to three pounds on the higher side, in a
week, are not sustainable and are not kept off. A successful weight
loss should be able to keep off the lost weight for at least a year.
Though a pyhsiological possibility fast weight loss
mistakes abound.
5. Quick weight loss diets
are nutritionally unhealthy
With emphasis on some foods, a user of these diets will by default be
eliminating some nutrients from their foods and in some lesser extent
overloads. Likely eliminations are Carbohydrates, Fats, Vitamins and
Phytonutrients. Overloads can be Proteins and Minerals.
For example, a
low fat diet may interfere with absorption of fat soluble vitamins,
Vitamins A, D, E and K. A low Carb diet on the other hand may have
insufficient Vitamins and Phytonutrients found in ‘good
Carbohydrates’ like whole wheat.
Likewise high protein diet
may overload the body with excess proteins. Resulting complications
include Osteoporosis. This may occur because proteins are not stored in
the body. In the absence of any other use, Proteins are eliminated.
Calcium is used to eliminate Proteins, so more Calcium would be used to
eliminate greater quantities of excess Proteins. In the absence of
enough dietary Calcium, the body uses Calcium from bones.
Most of the foods we eat are make important contribution to our bodies.
As the diet
Fat
Loss 4 Idiots (lose 40 lbs with Calorie Shifting )
will show you its all about calorie
shifting.
6. Encourage caloric intake
that is far less than optimal
These weight-loss
diets do this in an attempt to attain quick results.
However the danger is in under fueling your body. Due to lack of enough
energy, you end up being sluggish, and fatigued as well as highly
irritable.
Apart from the unhealthy consequences of low calories, this
feeling can be highly de-motivating. Weight loss requires great
commitment and quick weight-loss diets can be very discouraging.
7. Do not involve lifestyle
changes
Weight loss will always, with rare exceptions, involve adjusting
lifestyle. Most fast weight-loss diets can not be used for a long time.
Apart from being nutritionally unhealthy they are hard to keep. And
once you stop using them your weight bounces back. So weight regain is
usually imminent.
Well then, if quick weight loss diets are less than
ideal, then how come they are so popular? This has been a fascination
of many. Proponents of quick weight loss diets tap into YOUR need to
get results fast. However the truth is, you did not put on those pounds
in 2 weeks, naturally you will not always loose them in two either.
But here is the good news, with the right strategies you can accelerate
how fast you can get sustainable results.
In the next page, you get to learn more about Calorie Shifting.
You will discover;
Weight loss is based on science but you need to execute it
artistically. You need to know when to apply which principle to apply
when. So, in additionyou will learn . . .
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