What Diet and Weight Loss Plans Will Work Best for Me?

Article by Dale Hearn

With all the diet plans available these days, it’s hard to know which ones live up to their hype and will work for you. Many don’t work and can actually be detrimental to your health. Many work as advertised, but how do you know which one to choose?

There are lots of fad diets out there and most should be avoided. Often you see celebrities offer weight loss programs via infomercials. Just because a person who stars in your favorite TV show advertises a program doesn’t mean that it’s a good one. While some of these plans can be effective for short term, rapid weight loss, you should not continue on these programs longer than recommended, since your health could be compromised. Another thing to consider before choosing one of these fad diets is that 95% of people who lose weight will gain all of it back – or more!

With many of these calorie-restricted fad diets, there is an initial rapid weight loss during the first 1 to 2 weeks, but this loss is largely fluid. The initial rapid loss of fluid also is regained rapidly when you return to a normal-calorie diet.

Weight loss is impossible without a calorie restriction, so a good diet has to provide fewer calories than your body needs to maintain your weight. Any diet that claims otherwise can end up causing weight gain. Weight loss means ‘light’ eating! Successful weight loss requires life-long weight management and commitment beyond cutting calories. Good diet plans offer not only calorie management so that you can lose weight, but life style changing habits you must follow if you want to keep the weight off.

When dieting, we often try to eliminate sources of fat and cholesterol, such as beef and pork, eggs and cheese, but these are important sources of protein. A good weight loss program will limit fats and cholesterol, but won’t attempt to eliminate them. Your body needs these proteins, as well as carbohydrates to maintain optimal health, so it is unrealistic and patently unhealthy for a diet to advocate eliminating or severely restricting them.

Some diet plans will tell you that if any low calorie food is replacing another food high in calories then it can be considered good for losing weight. In the broadest sense this is true, but only if you replace like type calories such as a food high in fat with a food lower in fat or a carbohydrate with a similar food with a lower carb rating. Again, you want to maintain a proper balance of foods to maintain your health.

In summary, diet and weight loss plans that advocate sensible eating are plans worth your consideration. You are looking to lose weight and keep it off for the rest of your life, not to lose some weight quickly only to put it back on once you quit the diet. A diet plan with this kind of sensible, rest-of-your-life approach is the type of plan you should look for.

About the Author

There is a lot of hype out there about weight loss, and some flat out misinformation. When it comes to dieting, what you don’t know can hurt your health, your self-esteem, and your wallet. Dieting Facts and Myths cuts through the hype and flim flam and delivers straight talk about dieting and weight loss.

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