You try to figure out what quick weight loss diet would work best for you in order to shed those excess pounds.
There are a lot of diets to choose from. The South Beach Diet, the Atkins Diet, the Zone Diet, the Ornish diet.
They all require you to change the way that you normally eat, and to eat in a way that is not really natural and to eat foods that often don’t taste that great and may be inconvenient for you to prepare.
And chances are good that you pick a diet, any diet, and you follow it for a little while, and you lose a little weight or a lot of weight, and then you gain it back.
So you either try the same diet again - hey, it sort of worked before, right? Or you pick a new kind of diet, and again, odds are pretty good that you lose some weight.
Odds are also pretty good that you gain the weight back, and more.
How can we say this with such certainty? Because studies have repeatedly shown this. In fact, a UCLA Associate Professor of Psychology analyzed 31 long term studies of dieters and found out a disheartening fact.
The good news was that by looking at all those different studies of dieters, they found that it was not hard for people to lose five to ten percent of their body weight in six months.
These people went on all different types of diets, restricting their food intake and altering their eating patterns in numerous ways.
However at least one third to two third of people in the various dieting studies regained all of their weight AND MORE within four or five years.
This actually led Professor Traci Mann to come to this incredibly depressing conclusion: those people would have been better off if they had not gone on a diet at all!
There are other long term studies which show that repeated weight loss and weight gain can cause high cholesterol, heart disease, and can have other negative health consequences.
And the majority of these people ended up weighing MORE then when they started.
Professor Mann felt that all of that dieting was hard on the body and that, given that these people ended up heavier than before, they would have been better off never putting their bodies through the stress of dieting.
Does this tell us that everyone’s efforts to lose weight quickly are doomed to failure? Not at all, because some people are succeeding in losing weight and keeping the weight off.
Some weight loss methods simply work easier than others and are easier to stick with.
Any diet that lowers calories so much that you are constantly craving food is doomed to failure.
Any diet that requires you to drastically change your eating habits, to eat foods that you hate, to give up all of the foods that you love...is doomed to failure.
But fortunately, not all diets are so drastic or impossible to stick with. There are legitimate, effective weight loss programs that actually will work to help you to safely, effectively and permanently lose weight.
