Some of the crazy diets out there might be harmful to your health, this article looks at how to choose a diet which will get you long term results and teach you to eat healthier at the same time.
When most people want to lose weight then they want to do it with as little effort as possible, so they blindly trust anyone or any pill or contraption that says it will help them do that. That means there is a steady stream of people willing to try the newest pills or fad diets like the lemonade diet or grapefruit diet, in a desperate attempt to lose weight.
When looking at what diet they are going to follow then unfortunately most people go straight for how much weight it promises they will lose in the first 2 weeks, that is like choosing a new car based just on colour! There is no point in being sucked in by promises of huge weight loss figures as it could be totally useless afterwards and might even get you to do things which are harmful to lose that amount of weight
Dieting should be about the long term, the first few weeks are when your body can adapt to the diet and when you're most motivated to follow it, but really that is just the tip of the iceberg and you need to be prepared to stick with it for much longer than that. Your diet should really encourage gentle and consistent weight loss as well as at the same time teaching you how to make healthier food choices so that when you come off the diet you can continue eating properly and keep the weight off.
If your diet does not do that then you will just get some false hope at the start as you lose some weight (which will probably be muscle and water loss as well as some fat), then once you realise you don't know how to carry on or it changes and you don't lose anywhere near as much weight from then on, then you get discouraged and quit. So take care to thoroughly research what a diet asks you to do and what results other people are getting before you invest any time or money into it, some diets sound great in the flashy advertising, but when you dig deeper you realise they are just a gimmick. Be sure the program it gets you to follow is balanced as well and doesn't force you to eat one thing all the time like the cabbage soup diet, otherwise you might miss out on important nutrients.
When you have found a diet which gives you everything you need for long term success then make sure you set small goals to achieve, most people have one big goal which means they only get rewarded right at the end. Have a reward for every 5lbs you lose, or maybe 10% of your overall target or something like that. That will be much more motivating so you don't quit when you come to the rough spots that every diet will have over time, when you are stressed and run down and just want to go back to how you used to eat.
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