Fad Diets: A Quick Fix
Why do I lose weight quickly on a fad diet?
Usually you lose weight very quickly on a fad diet, because its very restrictive in calories, from the very beginning and that causes you to lose a lot of water weight, because you're using your stored carbohydrate that's in your body that provides energy to the brain and that stored carbohydrate is called glycogen and glycogen is mainly water. So, once you deplete your body of that glycogen, you lose a lot of that water you also start to lose lean muscle tissue because your body in not getting enough calories from outside it kind of starts to eat itself so that weight loss in the very beginning is water weight loss an lean muscle tissue, not fat loss.
Why do I gain weight back so fast after a fad diet?
People gain weight back quickly after a fad diet for a couple of reasons: 1. Because of auto body's water weight. And there's really no way to get around that. Your body is always going to store that certain amount of carbohydrate for later use. So think of, think of a glycogen as a sponge. When you use of all that carbohydrate and that glycogen, you're basically squeezing out the water from the sponge. When you start eating again, that sponge comes back up again. So there's really no way around that. That's going to happen, and it always going to happen. And also, when you are on some fad diet, when your calorie so low, your metabolism slows down. And so you gain weight. So now you start eating again, your metabolism slows down so your body is going to store the calorie that you finally eating as fat.
How can I lose fat instead of water weight?
Can I stay on a fad diet forever?
These fad diets are not designed to be followed forever. The healthy way to lose weight is to adopt a balanced eating lifestyle that you can live with for the rest of your life. If you can't, it's not going to work.
Is it safe to go on a fad diet for a short time?
When you go on a fad diet, you gain the weight back again, and go on another one, so you start doing this yo-yo dieting. What happens is, your metabolism is slowing down, you're starting to store more of your calories as fat and you have less muscle. So over time, you are going to have more fat, less muscle and a slower metabolism. So after a fad diet, horrible things don't happen right away, but over time we can find that such detrimental effects occur.
