What are fad diets?

“Fad diets” phrase refers to diets that promote a restircted eating plan which is not healthy at all because it lacks in sufficient calroies. There are also liquid fad diets such as cabbage soup diet and grape fruit diet.

Fad diets are diets that promise you to do miracles in a very short period of time. they promise to make you lose more than 3 pounds per week or even more. We all know that is not true ….come on!!!! but before denying these kinds of diet lets enjoy talking about their silliness. There are some diets that really make me laugh or they make me feel like I am stupid to believe their claims, if you want to laugh, here are some of the silliest fad diets:

• Eat whatever you want and keep losing weight (7 day all you can eat diet) the idea of believing this is really funny
• The (3 day diet) lose your extra weight by the 3 day diet, it’s a miracle isn’t it?

I am sorry if am not helping you lose weight but trust me, there is no combination of special food that will make you lose weight,some fad diets claim to contain special fat-burning, but losing weight has no magic key.. it is a fact, it doesn’t matter which hook the fad diet is using to let you believe them, it just doesn’t make sense to expect any miraculous weight loss that will last through following these kinds of diets.. all what you need is a healthy diet plan that will gaurantee your weight loss for the long-term not only for the short-term, you need an everyday plan to help you maintain your weight and keep the pounds you’ve lost off, you need a diet plan that provides you with the adequate amount of calories and nutrition that your body needs, it’s all about balance.. to lose weight you have to consume calories less than your body burns and you have to increase your activity level. That’s it.. it’s really simple.

But some people may ask : I tried a fad diet and it really worked BUT I GAINED WEIGHT AGAIN AFTER SKIPPING THE DIET.

A fad diet is most of the time a very low calorie diet… so any low calorie diet will make you lose weight but you will put on your lost pounds again as soon as you return back to you normal eating patterns, another thing about fad diets that it promotes fast weight loss which is considered to be unhealthy, and most of the time it is not fat loss it’s mostly water loss.. so that’s why the dieter will regain weight after resuming his normal eating. because it is water and it is easily lost and regained….. the result would be here that fad diets are short term plans.

Now listen to that, fad diets may lead to obesity, how is that?

Fad diets sometimes can lead to weight-cycling or yo-yo dieting which means weight loss followed by weight regain then weight loss and regain again new studies suggets that yo- yo dieting may lead to obesity.

You’ll know it’s a fad diet if it:

• Promises magic or miracle foods that burn fat.
• Requires you to eat unusual quantities of only one food or food type.
• Requires rigid menus of a limited selection of foods to be eaten at a specific time and day.
• Requires you to eat specific food combinations in certain sequences or combinations.
• Promises rapid weight loss of more than two pounds a week.
• Has no warning for those with diabetes or high blood pressure to seek medical advice before starting the diet.
• Does not include increased physical activity as part of the plan.

source: American Heart Association

At last we have a conclusion over here: Avoid fad dieting, instead follow a healthy diet plan based on the food guide pyramid which is the healthiest way to lose weight and keep it away, choose from all the groups the right serving size and you will have the adequate nutrition and calories your body needs.
Eating a balanced calorie-controlled diet is not only more appealing but also more likely to help you develop the sort of good eating habits that lead to permanent weight loss.