| The second question people often ask when looking to | | | | much controversy because the diets typically consist |
| lose weight is "what IS the best way to lose weight", | | | | of unusually high amounts of meat and cheese, which |
| the first is "what is the QUICKEST way to lose | | | | raises certain questions about the diets heart |
| weight" We've all been there, it's no fun to be walking | | | | healthiness. |
| around carrying more pounds on us than we probably | | | | 2. Macrobiotic Diets. Macrobiotic diets are basically |
| should. While balanced and healthy diet combined with | | | | dietary regiments consisting largely of natural and |
| exercise is always the best and safest approach for | | | | staple foods such as whole grains, fruits and |
| you bodies overall health, the fact still remains that | | | | vegetables with the emphasis being on avoiding all |
| losing weight quickly is important to people. And so for | | | | processed foods. The macrobiotic diet is a very |
| that reason I am providing you with a quick breakdown | | | | healthy and beneficial long term diet. While I highly |
| of some of the top dieting approaches, how they | | | | recommend it for anyone seeking a healthier life, it is |
| work, and what you need to know if you are looking | | | | not necessary the quickest way to lose weight. |
| to lose weight quickly. | | | | 3. The Hollywood Diet. The Hollywood diet is a dietary |
| 1. Low Carb Diets. Low carb diets can be one of the | | | | regiment that basically involves drinking nothing but a |
| quickest ways to lose weight. I once lost 25 pounds in | | | | supposed miracle juice over a 48 hour period. The |
| a mere 5 weeks with a low carb diet and I was not | | | | claim is that you can lose as much as 10 pounds in that |
| very heavy to begin with. The low carb diet is based | | | | short amount of time. I have tried the Hollywood diet |
| around the idea that if you cut out carbohydrates - | | | | and it is true that it is a very quick way to lose weight, |
| your bodies primary source of energy - that once | | | | however, unfortunately the only significant weight you |
| deprived, your metabolism will flip from a carb burning | | | | are losing is water weight. It would be physiologically |
| metabolism to a fat burning metabolism. While low carb | | | | impossible to lose anywhere near that amount of fat in |
| diets do certainly work, they are also the source of | | | | such a short amount of time. |