BUSTED! Disposable Diets
If you have looked at my site for long, you know how I feel about those diets that “sell” magazines. You know, the ones that say lose 10 pounds in 14 days! These diets are disposable in that they rarely are doable past the 14 days prescribed.
Who could stand to eat carrots and tuna with cottage cheese or peanut butter crackers with celery sticks or chicken breasts with mustard sauce… for more than 14 days!?
No, these diets are designed to sell magazines. You know the kind. You are desperate to lose 9 or 10 pounds so that when you see the latest diet emblazoned in Bold Red Letters on the cover of some women’s magazine, you grab it. You quickly scan the article to determine the food for the menu for a week and set off with a will – THIS time I am going to lose 10 pounds!! uh huh!
Folks, these diets are losers even before they begin. For one thing, they are self limiting! 10 days or 14 days or whatever? Unless all you have to lose is 8 or 10 pounds you will want to stay with it for much longer. And face it, there is no physical way to lose 10 pounds of fat in 10 days. When you lose weight on one of those magazine diets, it is made up of mostly water weight, some minerals and a pound or 2 pound of fat.
To top it off, because you starved yourself for the duration, your body is now saying, “Hey, you starved me. So, now I have to save up energy/fat for the next starvation period.” And there you go, gained all the weight back and more!
No, unless you only have to lose 5 to 10 pounds total, these diets are bound to fail. It is these diets that give weight loss dieting a bad name, too.
If you are serious about losing weight – for good – you have to decide to eat better food choices, exercise regularly, drink plenty of water, get fresh air, de-stress your life. There are no short cuts.
Take a look around this site for sound advice for safe, healthy weight loss.