More then 60% of all adults in the united states are overweight. That's 127 million people, who weigh too much. I know you don't want to be one of them, and probably most people would like to lose some weight, so why don't they do it?
I believe that no matter how many diets they follow, they never find one that works well in the long term. It's nice to have quick results, but if you can't keep them up, you may as well not start to begin with. A lot of the quick loss diets do worse then that though, they actually make you gain weight a few weeks after losing it.
If you want to really lose weight, you need a way to guess whether the diet will work for you, without having to go through the hassle of buying it and spending a month trying it out. Here I'll tell you what to look for in the advertising spiels so you can tell the fake from the functional.
The very first thing to take a look at is the guarantee they provide. If there isn't any guarantee, or they only offer you a very short one, don't take it. However long they promise it will take for you to notice the effects, I suggest you make sure the guarantee is for double that long. You don't want to have the diet fail you right after the guarantee expires.
Besides that, take a look at how long they say it will take to lose weight. Surprisingly, the longer is better here, because it means the diet is more likely to be real. If they tell you that you can take of 5lb in the first week, then that's believable. 10lb and I'd raise an eyebrow. Anything more then that is very suspicious.
It's just not safe to lose weight fast, and even if you did manage to drop, say, 20 pounds in a week you could never hold yourself there. The very methods that got rid of all that weight would either cause you to put it all on again afterwards, or make you very sick. But hey, as long as that happens after you've bought their product, what do they care? They can just sell you a new book on how to get healthy again after dieting, which will probably work just as well.
Of course, not every diet is like this. Sometimes, you can lose weight very quickly. For instance, I knew a woman who wanted to lose 60 pounds. She started going to the gym every day, and working out hard for three hours. At the end of the first week, she had dropped 20lb. Now, that's rather a special case, but it shows what can be done. these diets aren't telling you to work out though, they're telling you to sit at home and eat. To me, that seems like a bad idea. It's just common sense - food goes in, you never use it, what happens?
Any diet telling you not to worry about the amount you eat is either straight out lying to you, or they want you to eat food so unhealthy that your body can't use any of it, and it just gets passed straight through. You'll certainly lose weight then, but you'll be starving, and if you keep going you'll eventually kill yourself with it.
Now, how to tell a program that will really work. If they promise you gradual gains, that's good. If they give you real reasons, and not just 'I'm a doctor, believe what I say', that's another one. Workouts are good, recipes are good, any kind of guide is good, and of course motivation is essential. If you can find anything that offers you all of these, and otherwise seems reasonable, then there's a good chance it might actually work.
I believe that no matter how many diets they follow, they never find one that works well in the long term. It's nice to have quick results, but if you can't keep them up, you may as well not start to begin with. A lot of the quick loss diets do worse then that though, they actually make you gain weight a few weeks after losing it.
If you want to really lose weight, you need a way to guess whether the diet will work for you, without having to go through the hassle of buying it and spending a month trying it out. Here I'll tell you what to look for in the advertising spiels so you can tell the fake from the functional.
The very first thing to take a look at is the guarantee they provide. If there isn't any guarantee, or they only offer you a very short one, don't take it. However long they promise it will take for you to notice the effects, I suggest you make sure the guarantee is for double that long. You don't want to have the diet fail you right after the guarantee expires.
Besides that, take a look at how long they say it will take to lose weight. Surprisingly, the longer is better here, because it means the diet is more likely to be real. If they tell you that you can take of 5lb in the first week, then that's believable. 10lb and I'd raise an eyebrow. Anything more then that is very suspicious.
It's just not safe to lose weight fast, and even if you did manage to drop, say, 20 pounds in a week you could never hold yourself there. The very methods that got rid of all that weight would either cause you to put it all on again afterwards, or make you very sick. But hey, as long as that happens after you've bought their product, what do they care? They can just sell you a new book on how to get healthy again after dieting, which will probably work just as well.
Of course, not every diet is like this. Sometimes, you can lose weight very quickly. For instance, I knew a woman who wanted to lose 60 pounds. She started going to the gym every day, and working out hard for three hours. At the end of the first week, she had dropped 20lb. Now, that's rather a special case, but it shows what can be done. these diets aren't telling you to work out though, they're telling you to sit at home and eat. To me, that seems like a bad idea. It's just common sense - food goes in, you never use it, what happens?
Any diet telling you not to worry about the amount you eat is either straight out lying to you, or they want you to eat food so unhealthy that your body can't use any of it, and it just gets passed straight through. You'll certainly lose weight then, but you'll be starving, and if you keep going you'll eventually kill yourself with it.
Now, how to tell a program that will really work. If they promise you gradual gains, that's good. If they give you real reasons, and not just 'I'm a doctor, believe what I say', that's another one. Workouts are good, recipes are good, any kind of guide is good, and of course motivation is essential. If you can find anything that offers you all of these, and otherwise seems reasonable, then there's a good chance it might actually work.
About the Author:
Author Johanna Williams is a respected expert in the fields of dieting and nutrition. After hearing about a popular but mistaken quick weight loss tehnique, she decided to put together a site to tell people which fat loss products are actually useful.
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