Crash Diets...Do They Work?

What I am about to tell you, ya may not want to hear, but it is my duty to share with you the known facts of dieting. This article addresses a simple, unavoidable, and in cases of extreme resistance painful fact, that being: why crash diets don’t work. Oh we try and we try...and there are so, so many diets that suck us all in. For me it was the grapefruit diet, which btw, now the smell of this fruit makes me want to hurl. then there was the cabbage soup diet...now this one didn't change my thoughts about cabbage,...I still LOVE cabbage, BUT it isn't something that you want to eat a lot of and then go out in public. Do they work...these crash diets? For a short time yes, sure they do, but in a few months, you'll see the weight creeping back up on you again. There are a ton of fad diets and crazy crash diets that I see every day in tabloid magazines with celebrities (of course) whom, hey for them it might certainly work because they have thousands of dollars for a personal trainer...I don't. Despite what bright, loud, attention-grabbing ads from the TV to the magazine racks tout about so many pounds lost in so many days, the weight lost usually comes back in no time at all.

Weight lost quickly is most often water and carbohydrate (glycogen) loss, not fat. The body’s interpretation of this water and carbohydrate loss is that you are starving, and therefore it slows down its metabolic rate, in effect to help you live longer on less energy. You have to drink WATER! Keep stocked up on the h20. When you do ultimately start eating again (as, by definition, all crash diets end) the body believes the food emergency is over and determines its next best way to serve your longevity is to store this food you’re putting into it in case such a food emergency should arise again. 

To put it another way, the effect of a crash diet is to keep the body always in a crisis management mode, rather than help sustain a healthy body weight. This in itself is bad enough, but it gets worse. Glycogen loss is muscle loss, and since muscles are a critical part of maintaining an active metabolism, with less muscle, our bodies burn less calories. And when we burn less calories, we gain more weight. To lose weight for good, lose weight slowly. Try to keep it down to only a pound or two each week. It may not feed your need for immediate gratification, but you can keep yourself excited and committed to the process by knowing that the results you achieve will be lasting and you'll keep the pounds off for good!

 Did you know that in order to lose 1 pound of weight..., you have to cut out 3,500 calories!It amazes me how so many people don't know that. My advice, (unprofessionally that is)...Take it slow, weigh your food and count your calories! If you do this, you’ll notice the program you set for yourself is actually quite reasonable and easy to stick to. Discipline isn’t hard when the steps you’re disciplining yourself to take are practical and realistic. Take the concept of the crash diet out of your vocabulary and replace it with a far easier, more enjoyable, and more enduringly effective form of weight loss: behavior modification. Simple shifts in one or two behaviors can have dramatic and lasting effects on your weight. Drop the pounds and feel sexy, especially if you are buying sexy matching sets and affordable lingerie at Simply Delicious Lingerie!

Yes...crash diets achieve false and fleeting results. They lead to frustration, disappointment, despair and more weight gain for many people. Stay away from them, for your own good, and the good of your body! Do what's right...take it slow, eat the right foods, drink plenty of water and exercise.

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