Yes, you may see that you take down rapidly for that first little time, but be sure you just losing water, you will pick all those weight up again, the minute you stop this unhealthy slimming diet method.
Another distressing side of these impossible promise diets is that you tend to regain all the weight you have lost in record time and usually take up to several kilogram more. This type of slimming diet can easily trap you. Some people call this effect ‘Yo-Yo dieting’ and set you on the way of continuous dieting.
Be careful of Fad Diets. This tell you to eat only one category of food, e.g. only protein or only fruit. Let’s have a look at the latter type of diet. Fruit and vegetables are full of antioxidants, vitamins, bioflavonoids, dietary fiber, and protective nutrients, but if you are told to only eat fruit and vegetables to lose weight, you will be doing yourself harm in the long run. This is not the natural and healthy way of slimming diet.
A two to three days cleansing diet based on fresh, raw fruit and/or vegetables, is perfectly acceptable provided you don’t try and carry on with this type of eating for weeks on end. If you do, you may lose weight, but will be in danger of raising all kinds of deficiencies. Fruit and vegetables are full with goodness, but are poor in protein, iron, calcium and many other minerals, vitamin B12, and omega-fatty acids.
To remain healthy and lose weight, you need to eat a mix of foods, not just one type. So if you hear of a sliming diet that tells you to cut out ‘all protein’ or ‘all carbohydrate’ or ‘all fat’ then you know it is not balanced and can lead to all kinds of troubles.
Even a low-fat diet, which is one of the most successful diets for losing weight, still contains some fat to provide the essential fatty acids your body requires to stay healthy.
Starvation diets
Very-low-energy diets are sometimes used to treat people suffering from gross obesity. In general, this type of diet should only be used under the strict supervision of a therapeutic doctor and a clinical dietitian.
If you are given a slimming diet which restricts your food intake to a few lettuce leaves and the odd tomato, and you get so hungry that your head spins and you feel faint all the time, then you know that this is a wrong diet method. You may lose weight on this kind of diet, but you won’t be able to keep it up and once you stop, your body goes into overdrive to try and restore its normal balance. Having received the message ‘Food supply cut off’, the body will try and conserve energy and slow down weight-loss processes and restart storing fat.
Believe it or not, most people lose weight most efficiently when they are not starving, but eating a balanced, low-fat, high-fibre diet which lets them feel comfortably satiated and ‘normal’.
So if you are walking around in a daze and craving food all day, you will know that the slimming diet you are using is a wrong diet method (fad diet) and will not help you to reach your goal of stable weight-loss.