Why Diets Don't Work (...And How Diets Can Make You Put On Even More Weight!)

Stop!  

Before you start on your next diet, you really must read on to find out how diets can actually do you more harm than good...

But first let me share with you a story.

"I just don't understand it!", screamed Jennifer.  

"This latest diet of mine seemed to be going so well.  I lost a couple of pounds within the first 3 days alone, and another couple more during the next week or so..."

"...but then it's like I hit a brick wall.  The weight loss just stopped all of a sudden!  I stuck to the diet but I still hit a weight loss plateau, and I can't overcome it!"

"And that wasn't even the worst part!  Anyway, I figured after hitting the plateau that the diet can't help me to lose any more weight so I stopped and took myself off the diet."

"A few weeks went by and then I nearly got the shock of my life.  I jumped onto the scales again and found that not only had I put back on all the weight I had lost during the diet, I had piled on another 3 more pounds on top of that!  And I wasn't even overeating during this period after the diet!", sighed an exasperated Jennifer.

Do you find the story familiar?  Have you heard a similar one before?  Or worse still, do you have the same story as Jennifer?

It's time you learn the truth about diets, so here it is... 

Diets do NOT work.

Well actually, it wouldn't be so bad if that's all there is to it.  

But here's the frightening part: Not only do diets fail to help you to lose weight, they can even cause you to put on even more weight after you get off the diet!

Here's why...

When most people think of the word "diet", they think that it means a short-term program where one eats a special kind of meal in order to lose weight.  

More often than not, diets have you eating low-calorie meals or meal replacements.  So what do a lot of women do?  They end up avoiding all the fatty foods, carbohydrates and desserts (basically all the stuff we all love), and munch on a couple of carrots and celery sticks, steamed vegetables and other fruits (i.e. stuff we can just barely tolerate).  

And the portions are tiny!

Now here's the problem: Your body is really smart.  It knows how to take care of itself.  And at its most basic level, that means doing its best to keep you alive.  

But what does all that have to do with dieting?

You see, if you cut down drastically on the amount of food you take, your body's natural defense mechanism will kick in.  Your body thinks there's a famine and that you're going to starve soon, so it'll lower your body's metabolism to make better use of the fewer calories being consumed.  

That's why a lot of people who go on diets find that after a while, they stop losing weight even though they are still on the same low-calorie diet.  Your body has gotten used to the decreased amount of calories being consumed, and this is when you hit the dreaded "weight loss plateau". 

And the worst thing is, once you go off the diet and eat your "normal" food, your body is still in starvation mode and it'll store as much of the extra calories as fat as it can.  

What happens is your body's defense mechanism looks at the increased amount of calories being consumed and it thinks to itself that this is only temporary and that the current "good times" can't last.  Sooner or later the calories will get reduced again, so it had better store away the "extra" calories as fat around your body to ensure it'll have a reserve of energy to tide you through the next "famine".

That's why once they get off their diets, many people put on all the weight they had lost, and more!

So please, don't even think of going on any of these fad low-calorie diets.  We all know that we should control our meal portions.  But just because we shouldn't OVEReat doesn't mean we should UNDEReat, right?  

And the next time you see the word "diet", remember that it simply means "what you eat".  To lose weight permanently, we definitely need to watch what we eat.  And just as importantly, we need to make sure that we don't starve ourselves by eating too little.  That's just not an effective way for permanent weight loss.

So please, do not go on any "diets".  You'll probably lose more weight this way!

 

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