Fad Diets Are Bad Diets

April Fool’s Day seems like an excellent time to review fad diets!

If you’re a professional dieter like I was before weight loss surgery, you tried every bizarre, weird, and downright ridiculous diet possible.  All in the hopes of finding the magic diet that would work permanently.  I had success with some of the diets, however, it was temporary at best.  I would eventually regain the weight I’d lost plus a bonus few extra pounds from following some crazy diet plan.  I believe one of the reasons we have such a sense of failure in our lives is because of all these fad diets.  We did NOT fail at the diets, they failed us because they were not healthy and not designed for long-lasting weight loss. 

When you’re considering a diet plan, beware of the Top 10 Signs of Fad Diets:

1.  Promises rapid weight loss with little or no changes in your life.

2.  Implies calories don’t count or has unsafe limitations on calories.

3.  Eliminates entire food groups. 

4.  Defines certain foods as “good” or “bad” or promotes specific foods in excessively large amounts.

5.  Recommends a magic cookie, pill, bar, wafer, powder, oil, vitamin, mineral, enzyme or other supplement that they happen to sell.

6.  Restricts foods to certain types of people with blood type, sign of the Zodiac, body type.

7.  Is not supported by solid scientific evidence or research.

8.  Overly pushes one source or study to support their product and diet plan. 

9.  Features a celebrity as the exclusive spokesperson for the diet plan or product.

10.  Based on weight loss by following an unbalance nutritional plan and without exercise or other lifestyle changes.

Weight loss surgery and other healthy weight loss programs are the only way to change your life, combined with support such as weight loss coaching.  Weight loss and maintenance occur when we replace the old habits that made us heavy for new healthy habits.  Fad diets are bad diets!! 

Believe In Yourself,
Cathy