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Are There Such Things As Crash Diets That Work?
By Beth Larson
It's the ultimate weight loss dream - to go on a crash diet that allows you to drop weight fast and keep it off for good, right? Part of the reason that the diet industry makes billions of dollars each year is because they play off our hope that there is a crash diet out there that will allow us to do just that. Although there are a few exceptions, most quick-fix diets not only don't deliver what they promise, but they can actually make it harder for you to lose weight. Let's take a quick look at why crash diets don't work and what can work instead.
The vast majority of fad diets that promise immediate weight loss cut your calories way back...to the point that your body is not getting enough calories to use for energy. Now, initially that leads to weight loss. However, there is a catch. Our metabolisms automatically adjust themselves to run faster or slower based on the number of calories we have been eating over the past few days.
So say, for instance, that you have been eating 2000 calories per day. Your metabolism expects you to keep eating that many calories since it is what you have been doing so it will run at a rate based on 2000 calories. Now let's say you go on a crash diet and cut your calories way back to 1300 calories per day.
At first your metabolism continues to run at a faster rate based on the 2000 calories you were eating. Soon, though, it catches on and realizes that you are now only eating 1300 calories per day and as a result it slows down to compensate. That means that it becomes more difficult to lose weight even when you are eating way fewer calories. Not only that, but when you go off the diet and start eating normally again your metabolism will still run at the slower rate for awhile and it will be very easy to gain back any weight you may have lost.
If you've tried diet after diet without much luck you can probably see that this pattern is true. It is the reason that when you first start a diet you usually lose weight but after awhile your weight loss plateaus. It is also the reason that it is very easy to gain back any weight you lost on the diet when you resume eating normally.
The good news is that there is a way around this problem that allows you to still lose weight very quickly without allowing your metabolism to slow down. It relies on something called the "shifting calories theory" which varies the number of calories you eat each day to keep your metabolism running strong.
There is only one diet that I know of that uses the shifting calories theory and it is Fat Loss for Idiots. On this diet you can lose up to 9 lbs. in 11 days without causing your metabolism to slow down. If you would like to learn more about just how this diet works to trick your metabolism and to help you lose weight quickly, please visit http://www.squidoo.com/fatlossforidiots-review
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