How to Know When a Diet is Fake
More then 60% of all adults in the united states are overweight. That's 127 million people, who weigh too much. I know you don't want to be one of them, and probably most people would like to lose some weight, so why don't they do it?
I suspect the real problem is that the vast majority of fad diets, are just that - fads. They may work for the first week or so, but after that you would be better off if you had never started. You can spend years trying hundreds of different fad diets before stumbling on one that really works.
However, there is a solution. A small number of tell-tale signs can let you know whether the diet you're looking at is the real deal, or just another fad. Here, I'm going to show you what to look for, and how to know if a diet will really work - before you spend a penny on it!
The first thing to check is the guarantee. If there's no money back guarantee, don't bother. If it doesn't help you lose at least a little weight within the first month, it's probably not going to work and you might as well send it back.
Besides the guarantee, you should also look at how much time you need to notice the effects. Surprisingly, the longer this time is the more likely the diet is to be real. If they say anything more then 10lb a week, I'd get suspicious. The best diets usually offer 5lb or less weight loss per week.
How fast can you safely lose weight? 14lb in 14 days is of course possible, but it's a terrible idea, and it is certainly not possible to maintain it. The best diets will not give you any guarantees of time or weight, because everyone is different, and there is no way to know for sure how fast someone will lose weight, no matter how good the diet may be.
Of course, there are exceptions. For instance, I know one person who was 60lb overweight. She made the effort to go to the gym every day for three hours, and lose 20lb in a week. So I know it can be done, but these diets programs are not telling you to go work out for hours every day, they are telling you to eat, and often to eat more then you normally would. Does that seem smart to you? No, of course not. And it isn't.
Any diet telling you not to worry about the amount you eat is either straight out lying to you, or they want you to eat food so unhealthy that your body can't use any of it, and it just gets passed straight through. You'll certainly lose weight then, but you'll be starving, and if you keep going you'll eventually kill yourself with it.
Now, how to tell a program that will really work. If they promise you gradual gains, that's good. If they give you real reasons, and not just 'I'm a doctor, believe what I say', that's another one. Workouts are good, recipes are good, any kind of guide is good, and of course motivation is essential. If you can find anything that offers you all of these, and otherwise seems reasonable, then there's a good chance it might actually work.
I suspect the real problem is that the vast majority of fad diets, are just that - fads. They may work for the first week or so, but after that you would be better off if you had never started. You can spend years trying hundreds of different fad diets before stumbling on one that really works.
However, there is a solution. A small number of tell-tale signs can let you know whether the diet you're looking at is the real deal, or just another fad. Here, I'm going to show you what to look for, and how to know if a diet will really work - before you spend a penny on it!
The first thing to check is the guarantee. If there's no money back guarantee, don't bother. If it doesn't help you lose at least a little weight within the first month, it's probably not going to work and you might as well send it back.
Besides the guarantee, you should also look at how much time you need to notice the effects. Surprisingly, the longer this time is the more likely the diet is to be real. If they say anything more then 10lb a week, I'd get suspicious. The best diets usually offer 5lb or less weight loss per week.
How fast can you safely lose weight? 14lb in 14 days is of course possible, but it's a terrible idea, and it is certainly not possible to maintain it. The best diets will not give you any guarantees of time or weight, because everyone is different, and there is no way to know for sure how fast someone will lose weight, no matter how good the diet may be.
Of course, there are exceptions. For instance, I know one person who was 60lb overweight. She made the effort to go to the gym every day for three hours, and lose 20lb in a week. So I know it can be done, but these diets programs are not telling you to go work out for hours every day, they are telling you to eat, and often to eat more then you normally would. Does that seem smart to you? No, of course not. And it isn't.
Any diet telling you not to worry about the amount you eat is either straight out lying to you, or they want you to eat food so unhealthy that your body can't use any of it, and it just gets passed straight through. You'll certainly lose weight then, but you'll be starving, and if you keep going you'll eventually kill yourself with it.
Now, how to tell a program that will really work. If they promise you gradual gains, that's good. If they give you real reasons, and not just 'I'm a doctor, believe what I say', that's another one. Workouts are good, recipes are good, any kind of guide is good, and of course motivation is essential. If you can find anything that offers you all of these, and otherwise seems reasonable, then there's a good chance it might actually work.
About the Author:
Author Johanna Williams is a respected expert in the fields of nutrition and dieting. After learning about a popular but mistaken technique to lose weight, she decided to put together a site telling people which fat loss products really work.
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