How to Tell a Fad Diet from a Real One
Did you know that over half of America is overweight, and a quarter are obese? That’s right, 65% or 127 million people in the US are overweight. That’s a lot of fat people, most of whom are probably working searching hard to find a real way to lose weight. So are they not trying hard enough, or do the diets not work?
I believe that no matter how many diets they follow, they never find one that works well in the long term. It’s nice to have quick results, but if you can’t keep them up, you may as well not start to begin with. A lot of the quick loss diets do worse then that though, they actually make you gain weight a few weeks after losing it.
However, there is a solution. A small number of tell-tale signs can let you know whether the diet you’re looking at is the real deal, or just another fad. Here, I’m going to show you what to look for, and how to know if a diet will really work - before you spend a penny on it!
The first secret is the timing. Make sure your product has a money back guarantee, so if it doesn’t work you won’t be out of pocket. 30 days is plenty of time to notice some benefit, so if it doesn’t help you within that time, send it back!
Besides that, take a look at how long they say it will take to lose weight. Surprisingly, the longer is better here, because it means the diet is more likely to be real. If they tell you that you can take of 5lb in the first week, then that’s believable. 10lb and I’d raise an eyebrow. Anything more then that is very suspicious.
It’s just not safe to lose weight fast, and even if you did manage to drop, say, 20 pounds in a week you could never hold yourself there. The very methods that got rid of all that weight would either cause you to put it all on again afterwards, or make you very sick. But hey, as long as that happens after you’ve bought their product, what do they care? They can just sell you a new book on how to get healthy again after dieting, which will probably work just as well.
Of course, there are exceptions. For instance, I know one person who was 60lb overweight. She made the effort to go to the gym every day for three hours, and lose 20lb in a week. So I know it can be done, but these diets programs are not telling you to go work out for hours every day, they are telling you to eat, and often to eat more then you normally would. Does that seem smart to you? No, of course not. And it isn’t.
If they say you don’t need to worry about the amount of food you eat, then it’s either a scam, or they want you to gorge on completely non-nutritious foods so that you feel full, while getting absolutely no benefit. that is incredibly unhealthy, and can often cause serious permanent health problems, much worse then just being overweight.
If any dieting scheme promises slow constant weight loss, with a reasonable timeframe, then it’s probably real. If they offer a good mix of workouts and recipes, then it just might be worth giving a try. Just make sure you stay clear of anything telling you to avoid a food group, no god can come of that. There’s no magic bullet for weight loss.
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