If fad diets seem to get results, why are they bad? It’s a question that many people wonder. If you look on the internet, you will see a lot of sites claiming you can achieve significant weight loss in merely a few days. Well, here is the problem. Weight loss of that type is always temporary. Usually, 90% of it is water loss, which will be regained immediately as soon as your body reyhdrates. And you must rehydrate if you are not going to suffer severe health problems or die.

You will also find some fad diets with outrageous claims that are not this sort of water-weight crash diets. These are the well-hyped diet plans that are fashionable for a while and make a great deal of money for the promoter or inventor in associated product sales. When these diets are sound, in the best examples, you will find they are good nutrition plans which will help you lose weight, but which you are available for free from your doctor. In the worst cases they are usually so difficult to follow that you will give up after a week.

The Bad in the Fad

1. When a diet promises easy and quick weight loss, it is usually based on eating more of only one food type and exactly none of another. Obviously, this type of plan does not provide the benefits that you get from a balanced diet. Sometimes to compensate for the lack of balance, they may suggest that the dieter take supplements. But often, the body can’t absorb supplements unless they are taken along with the foods that the diet has prohibited. You may begin to develop nutritional deficiencies after a few weeks, if you stick to it that long.

2. Usually, fad diets are overly restrictive and boring. There is some novelty during the first couple of days, but after that you don’t enjoy your meals. Once you don’t enjoy your meals, you will begin to crave food all the time and will eventually break the diet. Possibly, you may even feel guilty, thinking it is your fault that you did not lose weight.

3. Commonly, fad diets go against the recommendations of the American Heart Association and similar organizations with respect to dietary fat levels. If the diet recommends high fat foods and low carbohydrates and it is followed for the long term, it could cause heart disease. The promoters may warn that you should only follow their diet for a short time, but you probably won’t reach your goal weight in that amount of time. What are you to do then? You would either continue to jeopardize your health with a plan that is not good for you, or stop the plan and probably gain back all of what you lost (and more.)

4. A lot of fad diets do not allow you to get a sufficient number of servings of vegetables and fruits or fail to give you the kind of variety in foods that your body needs.

5. Most fast weight loss diets are only a temporary solution and do not teach or help you to make permanent changes in your eating habits. Once you reach it, you can only remain at your target weight through the permanent changes you have made to your eating habits. Fad diets are unsustainable and further promote yo-yo diet-binge cycles of fast weight loss and equally fast weight gain. Yo-yo dieting is worse for your health and your self-esteem than if you had stayed overweight all the time.

Whatever the promotional materials may say about a fad diet, it will not help you in the long term. Eating a varied and healthy diet without overeating and exercise are the best ways to sustain weight loss. Avoid fad diets.

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