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[W375]What Are Fad Diets
by Ben Needles, Ben
The bottom line is that you gain weight because you consume more calories than your body is able to use and no diet is a substitute for good eating habits.

Your body requires a certain number of calories in order to function properly. If you truly wish to lose weight, you must burn off more calories than your body requires. In this guide you will learn ways to reduce the number of calories you ingest as well as tips and techniques to help you burn off unnecessary calories.

Before we begin, however, its important that you fill your arsenal with every possible tool available to insure your success. The most important tool in your weight loss program does not include diet or exercise.

There is no special equipment you need to purchase. You dont need to join a gym or health club. And, you already have every component you need to put this tool to work for you and begin a successful weight loss program. What is it? Its your mind. Having said that, lets get started, shall we?

The bottom line is that you gain weight because you consume more calories than your body is able to use and no diet is a substitute for good eating habits.

Your body requires a certain number of calories in order to function properly. If you truly wish to lose weight, you must burn off more calories than your body requires. In this guide you will learn ways to reduce the number of calories you ingest as well as tips and techniques to help you burn off unnecessary calories.

Before we begin, however, its important that you fill your arsenal with every possible tool available to insure your success. The most important tool in your weight loss program does not include diet or exercise.

There is no special equipment you need to purchase. You dont need to join a gym or health club. And, you already have every component you need to put this tool to work for you and begin a successful weight loss program. What is it? Its your mind. Having said that, lets get started, shall we?



When you’re trying to lose weight, there are bookshelves, websites and TV shows full of people trying to sell you a dream. They say that you can lose weight quickly and easily, without any hard work, because of their new discovery. If a few people try it and it works for them, the press report it, and before anyone’s had time to investigate the health implications or the long-term effects, we’ve got a fad diet on our hands.

Fad diets, basically, are diets that attempt to help you lose weight by making drastic changes to what you eat or some other element of your lifestyle, often telling you to only eat one thing or to avoid certain kinds of food completely. Now, I’m not saying that they can’t help you lose weight, as many of them can – people on Atkins-like diets, for example, really do lose weight very quickly. But what people don’t think about is the long-term.

So you’ve lost all those pounds on a fad diet, great. What next? You have a choice: either go back to your normal diet, or keep eating in a completely crazy way. If you don’t want to keep on eating lettuce (or whatever) for the rest of your life, then you’re stuck, and you’ll just have to go back to your bad old ways – and a few months down the line, all those pounds have come back, and you go on the next fad diet. This is known as yo-yo dieting, and is even unhealthier than just being fat, as it increases your risk of heart disease and all sorts of other conditions besides.

In the end, if you want to lose weight, you should work out a diet that works for you – it doesn’t have to completely traditional; as long as it’s something you can stick to for the rest of your life.

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