Diets.....Why I hate them.

Diets and dieting has been around forever, and undoubtedly have helped people around the world to lose weight. Today there have been all kinds of new "break through" that can make you lose weight without changing your diet or activity levels, all of these new pills and supplements are making their way onto the shelves, claiming to be the next weight loss miracle.

The dieting industry takes in about a billion plus dollars every year from people that are trying to lose weight. That is a lot of money, and a lot of products that are being sold. Its just kind of doesn't add up that all of these diets and dieting products are being used and yet the overall obesity rate is climbing. It just doesn't make sense.

You see a lot of diets these days are trying to come out with magical pills or supplement formulas that are miraculously suppose to take your fat away, without making a change to your diet or activity level. I’m sorry but in my opinion this is just not going to work; sure you may lose weight, but in the end when the diet is up, if you haven’t changed a thing to your lifestyle then would it not make sense that you would return to your original state.

You see this is the biggest flaws when it comes to most dieting systems. You lose the weight you want then you stop dieting and go right back to the same way of eating and the same activity levels that got you overweight to begin with, I mean what sense does that make. The dieting industry uses these diets as a marketing ploy in order to lure in these individuals who don’t know any better. And the best part is that they pay for all this marketing from the money they make from people like you. The biggest flaw that I have found in diets is that they are only meant to be temporary.

Look again I’m not saying that these diets don’t make you lose weight because they do, if they didn’t you wouldn’t buy them. However; because these diets are temporary and because your not actually changing the habits in your lifestyle that are making you overweight, you will not effectively lose the weight. When you lose weight effectively it means that you lose it and then keep it off even after the diet is over.

The only way to do that is that you have to scrap the dieting idea and simply make changes in your diet to healthier choices, portion these correctly, and exercise regularly. That’s it; it is a very simplistic and logical approach to losing weight that not only works but because it is your lifestyle that you have changed it is now like a permanent diet and you will be able to keep the weight off.

As a side note I would just also like to point out that a lot of these new herbal weight loss supplements, and pills that are coming out have not had the testing and proper amount of experimentation done with them. Therefore you cannot be sure of the negative effects they will have both short term and long term on the body. We all remember the “miracle supplement” made from Ephedrine (ma huang), they were very popular as they did help with weight loss, however; it was a short time later that Ephedrine containing supplements were shown to have very harmful side effects such as increased blood pressure, heart attacks, and even death. I say that to say this; the only real safe and effective way to lose weight and keep it off is to change your lifestyle eating and exercising habits.

Eat Healthy + Exercise regularly = Weight Loss