Stop Wasting Your Money, Fad Diets Are a Scam

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Shortcuts are awesome. Who doesn’t appreciate a nice back road that slices a commute in half? I’ve been known to skip ironing because the wrinkles usually fall out in a couple of hours, anyway. Sometimes, steps can be skipped or shortened without compromising the result too much. Unfortunately for dieters, weight loss is generally not something that can be rushed along... at least, not if you want long-term success. Then you’re right back where you started.
Before you buy out your local produce section’s entire stock of grapefruit, consider the following reasons why quick-fix diets are not the answer to your waistline woes:
But... I always see good results with quickie diets. It’s true that quick-fix diets can help you get the pounds off, but most of the time they come back with a vengeance. The smartest over at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) insist that people who make real, sustainable lifestyle changes are better-equipped to keep weight off. They recommend a loss of one to two pounds per week to be healthy and realistic. Why you might ask. I'll be glad to tell you. First, ask yourself how much weight was I gaining every month? I'll bet you gained your weight slowly, over a few years. When you gain your weight over time then that's how you have to lose it.
But... quick fix diets aren’t bad for me. According to Weight-control Information Network, the recurrent loss and regain of weight is known as “weight cycling.” Although much more study needs to happen on the subject, many experts agree that yo-yo dieting can affect mental health, cholesterol and blood pressure, at the very least.
But... I don’t have time to waste on a conventional diet. Think about it this way: The more time you spend indulging in quick-fix diets that don’t work for the long-term, the longer it takes to lose weight and keep it off. I know CDC’s one-to-two-pound-per-week weight loss limit seems excruciatingly slow, but doing it the healthy way will give you the waistline you want for good.
But... I need a diet that's easy to follow. Plenty of people turn to quickie diets because they have clear-cut rules: Don’t eat carbs. Don’t eat meat. Don’t eat anything but salmon and cashews. All that's fine if it works for you. However, a lot of us have trouble sticking with these strict diet plans, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Resources provides guidelines that are pretty easy to digest (pun totally intended). For example, Control portion sizes, replace sugary drinks with water, eat fresh fruits and veggies, read labels, choose products with lower sodium numbers and switch to low-fat dairy products.
It's the fad diets you don't have time for. You don't have to diet like that. You just have to stop eating junk and don't drink anything with sweeteners. No matter how little, don't drink anything with calories. Just stop eating junk, and stop drinking calories. What is junk? you might ask. Junk is manufactured food.
"I eat meat and potatoes, what's manufactured about that? Nothing, but do you put butter on your potato, no good, use salt and pepper, that's all. If you don't like it like that, don't eat potatoes. If you can't eat meat without gravy, then maybe you shouldn't eat meat. I season my food, but I don't use any sauces, gravies or condiments. Don't add calories to your foods. And if you're not eating vegetables you can't lose weight. Half of every meal should be vegetables.
And what is manufactured food? Any food that is man-made. Bread, why bread? All bakery goods today is made with processed flour and a type of processed sugar. If flour contained any nutrition before, after it's processed by man all the nutrition is stripped out. Processed flour or enriched flour is just as bad for your blood sugar as eating a bag of sugar.
You can get healthy and slim down just by changing the foods you eat. You can eat foods that add fat to your body or you can eat foods to reduce the fat on your body, it's that simple. Eat fresh foods and be careful what you eat in restaurants. Restaurant food is made to taste good, that doesn't mean it's good for you.

If you stick to eating poultry, seafood, non-fat yogurt, fruits and vegetables and drinks that have no calories, you'll lose weight. And if you increase your physical activity you can lose faster. A couch potato will not lose weight. In fact, sitting too much will stop your body from burning calories. A common mistake that a newbie makes when losing weight is that they overestimate their calorie burn. "Sure I can cheat a little because I burned the extra calories in the gym this afternoon." A one-hour workout can't make up for 8 hours of sitting. And a one-hour workout can't make up for a bad diet.
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There are two e-books. “How Bad Do You Want To Lose Weight?” is available at all the online bookstores selling for $1.99. Go to any of the websites below and search the title to find my Ebook. This book gives you all you need to lose weight without spending money on gym memberships, diet plans or meal plans. Look for my book. at Amazon.com, B&N.com, iBooks, Kobo.com, Scribd.com, or Gardner Books in the U.K.
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