Something that I have written about extensively is fad dieting. Fad dieting involves going on a highly restrictive diet for a short period of time in order to achieve massive amounts of weight loss.
Fad diets come in all shapes and sizes. There are protein shake diets, vegetable diets, soup diets, straw diets, liquid diets, fruit diets, “straw” diets and so on. A fad diet is basically something that gives a quick result for minimal effort. Well, so it seems.
If you have ever been guilty of yo-yo dieting, then you will know that fad dieting just doesn’t work. You may lose some initial weight, but, because the diet is not sustainable (or even healthy for that matter), you stop the diet, revert back to your old eating habits and gain all the weight back.
By approaching weight loss in this fashion, you are effectively aiming to achieve the end result without learning new lifestyle habits. In most cases, this frankly doesn’t work, because one’s ability to sustain these weight loss results is developed in the “journey” toward weight loss. This journey is where you learn how to establish healthy eating and exercise habits that can be sustained in the long-term.
In essence, fad dieting is the long road to weight loss because the vast majority of people embarking on a fad diet fail. What may initially seem like a quick fix, often turns out to be wasted time, money and effort. Whilst it’s human nature to opt for the quick and easy way out, achieving phenomenal and sustainable results require much more than this.
Ultimately, there is no shortcut. You and only you can put in the work to change your life in the long-term. Put bluntly, the sooner you realise this first-hand, the quicker you will achieve your goals and stop wasting your time with the latest diet craze.
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