| What exactly is a FAD Diet. Simply put a fad diet | | | | lasted 6 months or longer? Your answer is |
| is a diet in which you eliminate 100% of a certain | | | | probably very few. This is because people are |
| food(s) and focus primarily on another(s). For | | | | addicted to food (I am) very few people have |
| instance; the Atkins diet tells you to eliminate all | | | | the self control to fight their body's temptations. |
| carbs from your diet. Fad diets come and go. You | | | | Many of these programs boast that you can take |
| will hear of the new diet which boats that you | | | | the weight off and keep it off. No way! If you |
| could lose 20 pounds in 5 days. Fad diets is a huge | | | | are able to sustain a fad diet for some time and |
| business. Millions and Millions of people world wide | | | | decide to come off it your body will react very |
| buy into these on a daily basis. The truth is all Fad | | | | unbalanced. When you begin to consume the |
| diets are crap. | | | | foods which you were not eating in the past your |
| Can you lose 20 pounds in 5 days on a fad diet, | | | | body will not react to them the same way it did |
| yes, I have. Can you go down 6 dress sizes in a | | | | before you dieted. Many people gain the weight |
| month on a fad diet, YES. There are a couple big | | | | back quicker than they took it off, and often |
| problems which exist with fad diets. First it is un | | | | they gain back more weight than they lost. |
| healthy to starve your self from any particular | | | | Point blank avoid fad diets. Focus on a healthy well |
| food source. Your body was created to support | | | | balanced diet. If you have cravings for ice cream |
| healthy living eating all types of foods, carbs, | | | | instead of eating it every night, first back down |
| protein, fats, sugars, etc. Your body expects | | | | to every other night, than once a week, than |
| these foods, and by starving yourself and | | | | once a month as a treat. You don't have to |
| believing that you don't need this or that you are | | | | eliminate 100% of junk food from your diet to |
| setting up possible future health issues. | | | | lose weight. A well balanced diet is much easier to |
| Another big problem with fad dieting is there is | | | | sustain than a fad diet and at the same time your |
| little to no sustainability. How many people do you | | | | not starving yourself. |
| know who have tried the Atkins diet and faithfully | | | | |