Why You Don’t Really Need Fast Weight Loss Programs
With obesity expected to affect 50% of the population in the next fifty years, the time of “celebrity diets” and “fast weight loss programs” has become more popular than ever predicted. From the cabbage soup diet to the Quantum Wellness to the 48 Hour Miracle diet, each of these weight loss programmes all claim to quicken weight loss and experience increased rejuvenation.
Do they work?
Unfortunately not. Apart from helping you to achieve instant water weight loss, 90% of dieters have reported small weight loss reduction of just one to four pounds before hitting a plateau.
More worryingly, once slimmers stopped following these fad diets they quickly regained all the weight they lost.
What are the long term complications of these diets?
Whilst these can help dieters to benefit from instant weight loss, many are not healthy for long term use.
Limiting the amount of key nutrients needed to ensure your body is working at maximum levels, many involve lowering your calorie consumption to less than 1,000 calories a day – less than 50% of your nutritional allowance.
Supported by extreme workouts and constant calorie counting, most of these diets run the risk of causing you to feel quezy, fatiqued, unable to think straight and more worryingly stop you from functioning efficiently – None of which are good for your health.
How can you recognize a fad diet?
Fad diets are easier to spot than you imagine. Promoting an immediate solution to your body concerns, you can often tell a celebrity diet by their:
- Too good to be true claims – Lack of clinical case studies – Elimination of one if not more of the five food groups – Recommendations from studies without reviews from other researchers
With a weight loss program or herbal supplement, it is always important to thoroughly analyse their benefits first before incorporating them into your eating habits. If there are no clinical studies or proof that they can promote quality weight loss, then these celebrity diets are too good to be true.