Everyone is looking for the key to successful weight loss. Many people are just not able to fathom why they can be so unsuccessful with their diets. For the majority of us it is just too complicated to work it all out. This is all despite us trying to do our best to make dieting a success.
At best we all have lost weight on some fad diet or another. I think the correct term is yoyo diets. Anyway, all that most diets recommend is a restriction to the food that we eat for a period of time and then we are allowed to resume our normal habits once again. What a recipe for disaster.
Many years ago diets were prescribed for us and we saw the rise of the cabbage diet, the pumpkin diet and many strange manner of diets. Recently diets have popped up that have suggested removing entire food groups altogether. The Atkins diet being one of them. Atkins suggests that we should only eat protein, especially meat and remove all forms of carbohydrates from our daily food intake.
I watched an experiment on TV that reviewed all the latest fads, Atkins being one of them. Although the human guinea pigs lost weight, there seemed to be some significant and unpleasant side effects. Their bodies went into withdrawal from a lack of carbohydrates and they tended to display similar aggressive behavior as smokers exhibit when trying to quit nicotine. The most dramatic side effect in my opinion was that they developed extremely bad breath. They could not do anything to mask it at all. Can you imagine that? A thinner body and a foul smelling mouth!
It seems then that the key to successful weight loss is not to follow diet fads. The best solution is to follow a healthy eating plan combined with exercise. The best way to prevent failure is not to exclude whole food groups but rather to eat small balanced and nutritious meals throughout the day. Contrary to popular belief and past experiences included, it is actually possible to achieve perfect weight loss and still eat most of the foods that you love.
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