Fast Diet Fixes Ditch Fad Diets

You see them all the time: the latest, greatest diet that promises a new way – the only way – to lose weight.

Problem is, many of these fad diets are actively bad for you.

Not only that – they are unlikely to work in the long term based, as they are, on restricting certain foods rather than incorporating healthier foods into your everyday diet.

Low Fat Diets

These diets are very popular because the thinking goes that if you consume less fat, you will inevitably lose fat from your body.

Makes sense doesn’t it? After all, fat is very calorie dense.

But fat is also essential in our everyday diets.

Fat promotes normal brain cell function, regulates hormones and your immune system operation.

Fat coats your nerves cells and protects them from deterioration.

Fat is also involved in your body’s important biochemical reactions so having some fat in your diet is vital so long as you keep it within healthy, reasonable limits.

Not all fats are bad, there are good fats and bad fats.

Bad fats include saturated fat and trans fats. These types of fat lower the amount of healthy cholesterol in your body, throwing your system out of balance by increasing the amount of bad cholesterol present.

Good fats are those that, in their basic building block form, are known as monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats. They play several important roles in hormone production and help to aid in proper cell function.

These types of fats contain Omega-3 fatty acids. Omega-3 is known to reduce the risk of heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure and stroke.

 

Low Carb Diets

Your body will always turn food into sugar.

The body needs to convert it to this form so that it can be burned as fuel.

When you limit your carb intake, your body does not have enough sugar to burn so instead of burning sugar, it burns fat.

You will drop weight initially on a low carb diet but you may not want to live without your favorite foods for the long haul.

That is why it is so difficult to stick to these types of diets.

Eliminating carbohydrates also restricts the vitamins and minerals you get from good carbs such as:

Brown riceWhole wheatWhole grainsVegetables, etc.

These carbs give a slow release of sugar into the bloodstream which keeps your energy levels stable.

Not only are these restrictive diets bad for your health, they lack variety which means you are far more likely to stray.

Choose instead a lifestyle based diet which includes a wide choice of foods that boosts your health and energy rather than depleting it.

In this way, you are far more likely to lose weight and keep it off in the long term.