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Article #6: Why Fast Weight Loss Diets Should Be Avoided

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With the countless fad diets on the due to the extremely restrictive nature
market pushing misleading and deceptive of low-carb diets which can result in
claims it's no surprise that nearly cravings and subsequent binges as you
everyone who wants to lose weight is fall back into your old way of eating,
looking for a fast weight loss diet plan and is also due to the muscle loss which
or program. An example of fast weight slows down your metabolism.
loss diets include low carb diets which On top of all this you also have fast
instruct you to limit how many weight loss diet programs which tell you
carbohydrate foods you eat. to pay for monthly supplies of
In fact, fast weight loss diets, such as "necessary" shakes, bars and other
the Atkins Diet and the South Beach Diet, supplements while making huge weight loss
often have phases instructing you to put claims in return. Since 9 out of 10
your body in a a state called "ketosis" dieters return to dieting after putting
where it switches from using carbohydrate the weight they lost back on imagine how
for energy to using fat by eliminating many customers are sucked into the hype,
carbohydrate from your diet. Not only invested hundreds of dollars on fast
will you lack many vital nutrients by weight loss diets, only to find that
doing this, it is very extreme and despite all that money they invested
unnecessary, and very difficult to follow they're back where they started!
through. The key to successfully and permanently
What no-one tells you is that it's only losing the fat is not to drastically
realistic for your body to lose two lower calories, nor to label carbs as
pounds a week of fat and anything else evil and avoid them like the plague, as
you lose on a fast weight loss diet will many fast weight loss diets advocate.
be either muscle or water loss. Not only Instead, you will get more effective
is this very bad for your health but your results by changing your eating habits
body uses up fewer calories as you lose and eating smaller, but more frequent
muscle. Water loss also causes you to meals and cutting way back on processed,
become dehydrated, since your body is 75% fatty and high-sugar foods.
water. Fast weight loss diet plans and programs
Another side effect of fast weight loss should be avoided if you want to lose the
diets is that sudden changes in your diet fat safely. The only solution to
where you eat a lot less than normal permanent weight loss is to make healthy
could trigger your body's natural eating part of your lifestyle by
starvation response. Your body will then replacing your negative habits, and
conserve its energy and won't let go of incorporate regular exercise into your
your body fat, which is why often dieters routine. This should include both aerobic
find their fat loss stalling despite how exercise which helps melt the fat off and
low their calories are. strength/resistance training which will
Something else to consider is that it is build muscle to speed up your metabolism
very likely that you will re-gain any and avoid muscle loss, something many
weight you lost on a fast weight loss fast weight loss diets are guilty of.
diet when you complete your diet. This is






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