"Fad" Weight Loss Diet

Obesity is a physical state that refers to excessive body fat. Chances are you have experienced the frustrations of dieting at least once in your life, if you have problems with your weight. Close to a hundred million Americans go on a weight loss diet in any given year and up to ninety-five percent of them regain the weight they lose within five years. Worse, a third will gain back more weight than they lost, in danger of "yo-yoing" from one popular diet to another. The conventional approach to weight problems, focusing on fad weight loss diets or weight loss drugs, may leave you with just as much weight and the additional burden of ill health. The misery it causes in this society that is so weight conscrious is just extrodinary. I have had a weight problem and know how people can hurt you with their careless remarks.  They always assume people who have weight problems overeat and are inactive. Now I know some like that but most overweight people I know are super active and even go regularily to the gym. What is the problem then?

Today, an estimated sixty-five percent of all American adults are obese or overweight. Our culture obsesses about staying thin even as we grow fatter, but this isn’t about appearances. Obesity is known to be a precursor to many debilitating health conditions such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, osteoarthritis, and gallbladder disease. Obesity contributes to as many as 375,000 deaths every year. In addition, the public health costs for obesity are staggering. According to researchers at Harvard University, obesity is a factor in 19% of all cases of heart disease with annual health costs estimated at 30 billion dollars; it’s also a factor in 57% of diabetes cases, with health costs of $9 billion per year.  However fad diets don't cut it.  When I was heavy though I would of done most anything to lose weight with little thoughts to my health or what fad diets, gaining and losing and that whole cycle did to my body. I finally found another way.  Finding things that made it fun to move and pleasant to live in my body.  Eating more vegetables and less meat.  I am not vegetarian but I never eat more meat than the size of my hand.  Using fruit for dessert. Cutting the fats and only eating the good fats. Hydrate, hydrate, every day drink at least 8 glasses of water but I put a gallon in the fridge every morning and drink it all by bedtime.   Surround yourself with supportive friends, build a buddy weight loss, have a really good support group.


Set Realistic Goals:

No doubt you have fallen for one or more of the weight loss diet schemes over the years, promising quick and painless weight loss. Many of these quick weight loss diet programs undermine your health, cause physical discomfort, flatulence, and ultimately lead to disappointment when you start regaining weight, shortly after losing it. Fad or quick weight loss diet programs generally overstress one type of food. They contravene the fundamental principle of good nutrition - to remain healthy one must consume a balanced diet, which includes a variety of foods. Safe, healthy, and permanent weight reduction is what’s truly lost among the thousands of popular diet schemes. This is a personal confession of sorts but I saw this photo I have never been able to find it again but it went something like this: Why eat this if you can have this for the same amount of calories. I know we have all seen this saying but I was ready not to be heavy anymore.

Which would you choose?  They say a photo is worth a 1000 words. Well, it was for me. I chosse the fruits and vegetable.

Some of the weight loss diet schemes reign supreme briefly, only to fade out. Then they may become a fad again. Like the Cabbage soup diet. While some wane from popularity due to being unproductive or unsafe, some simply lose the public's curiosity. Examples of such fad diets include the South Beach Diet, Atkins diet, the Grapefruit diet, the boot camp diet,  the Rotation diet, Beverly Hills diet, Breatharian, Ornish Plan – the list goes on and on. These fad diets advocate a specific technique (such as eliminating a certain food, or eating only certain combinations of foods) in conjunction with the basic idea that the body makes up the difference in energy by breaking down and utilizing some part of itself, essentially converting matter into energy. This self-cannibalism, or catabolism as it is referred, typically starts with breakdown of stored body fat.

Which would you choose??

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