subject: Can You Trust Your Diet? [print this page] When most people want to lose weight then they want to do it with as little effort as possible, so they blindly trust anyone or any pill or contraption that says it will help them do that. That means there is a steady stream of people willing to try the newest pills or fad diets like the lemonade diet or grapefruit diet, in a desperate attempt to lose weight.
Unfortunately when most people look for a diet then the first thing they check for is how much it says they will lose in the first week or two, that is like choosing a new house based on the colour the front door! The diets which promise those huge losses in the first few weeks usually get you to do things which are unpleasant and may even be dangerous just to get to those kind of figures, and after that initial drop the rest of the diet could be useless
The first few weeks are when you are most motivated and if you don't get good results then some people lose interest, but dieting should really be about the long term results if you want to succeed. A good diet will give you slow but consistent weight loss, as well as teaching you at the same time how to make healthier choices when you come to eat, this means when you reach your target weight you will be able to keep eating healthy and nutritious food and maintain your weight.
If your diet does not do that then you will just get some false hope at the start as you lose some weight (which will probably be muscle and water loss as well as some fat), then once you realise you don't know how to carry on or it changes and you don't lose anywhere near as much weight from then on, then you get discouraged and quit. Really sit down and think about what a diet is asking you to do before you start anything, if it sounds too good to be true it probably is, losing 10lbs of fat in a week is just not possible, it will be the amount of weight you lose, not fat, which means you lose water and muscle in that figure too. Be sure the program it gets you to follow is balanced as well and doesn't force you to eat one thing all the time like the cabbage soup diet, otherwise you might miss out on important nutrients.
Once you find a diet which looks good then set up small goals to motivate yourself, most people give themselves one big goal which means they only get a reward right at the end. You can set up goals for every 10% of your overall target or just go for every half a stone etc. That helps to keep you motivated so you stick to it through the rough spots (which there will be) where you really want to quit.
by: Katie Weston
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