Quick Weight Loss

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 diets are characterized by a weak nutrition basis and usually an unproven belief.

Many such quick 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.

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Such fast diets are a quest for rapid results. And though rapid results are possible with healthy diets (see   "Go Beyond Calories" (And Lose Belly Fat Permanetly)  ) 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. 

Usually this would include strict eating guidelines. This is ill-advised.

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.



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 reasons for weight loss failure (See  "Go Beyond Calories" (And Lose Belly Fat Permanetly)  ).


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   "Go Beyond Calories" (And Lose Belly Fat Permanetly)  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 quick 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 such 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.

This is especilally true when it comes to losing belly fat. If you want to lose belly fat and get a flat stomach or even six pack abs you will need to Go Beyond Calories. You need to go beyond the usual weight loss strategies. To do this you will need two things, just two things. These two are...

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