3 Reasons Why Most Diet Plans Don’t Work

3 Reasons Why Most Diet Plans Don’t Work

If you have ever followed the so-called ‘fad diets’, you know that most of them don’t work as far as permanent weight loss is concerned. Sure, you will lose some pounds when you follow that diet, but those pounds will come back as soon as you stop following that diet plan. Strange as it may sound to you, it is true. There are actually three reasons why it happens:

1. Those diet plans really don’t help you lose fat: When you are on a diet, all you lose is watery weight and valuable muscles. You don’t lose FAT, the thing you need to do lose in order to get rid of fat belly and flabby arms! Therefore, as soon as you get back to your normal eating habits, the muscles and water come back, and you regain weight!

2. They are too strict for the average individual: Often, when on a diet, you have surely felt cravings for your old, favorite foods. Such cravings are only natural! After all, how long can you forget about those tasty fried foods which used to be your friends even till a few days ago? After a few days of strict diet, you soon feel bored of it and want to eat fried foods. If you eat fried foods, you will gain weight! But if you don’t eat that, you will gain even more weight!

When you deprive yourself of your favorite foods for too long, you suffer from stress. When you’re stressed out, you eat more than your appetite in order to ward off stress. This causes an unnatural weight gain. Ultimately the diet proves to be a waste of time and effort!

3. They slow down your metabolism: This is especially true for the low-calorie, low-fat, and low-carb diets. I don’t know if you are aware of the fact that the higher your metabolic rate is, the faster you are able to burn fat and lose weight. But to keep your metabolic rate high, you must supply your body with enough fat, carbs and calories. If you eat those ‘low’ diet plans, your metabolic rate will also be low.

When your body notices that you have reduced your food intake to an abnormal level, it assumes that you are going to kill it by fasting! It will therefore take steps to save itself from untimely death, and the major step it takes is that of energy conservation in the form of fat! Instead of burning your fat deposits as you would like it to be, your body stores them instead so that it can survive present and future famines. If that happens, will you lose or gain weight?

Life, however, doesn’t have to be as hard as you think. When you are following a ‘diet’, you are basically forcing yourself to eat something that you don’t enjoy eating! Realistically speaking, while it is not possible for you to stop eating your favorite foods altogether, you can surely reduce their intake!

No one said that you need to eat only natural and healthy foods in order to lose weight; it is also not very realistic. Natural foods can help you with weight loss but of what use are they if you cannot eat them for long? A good approach is to have a diet plan where 70% will contain “good” foods and the rest 30% will contain the “bad”, junk foods. This way, you not only satisfy your food cravings but also make sure that you don’t eat too much of the “bad” foods. As such, there is very little danger of an abnormal weight gain.

Also, try not to eat at odd times, such as after 7 p.m., or before going to bed. If you eat at those times your body won’t be able to burn off all the calories that you consume, and the unburned calories will get deposited in your body as fat!