Why Fad Diets and Diet Pills Don't Work and Actually Make You Fatter

Why Fad Diets and Diet Pills Don't Work and Actually Make You Fatter

Millions of dollars are spent every month by people looking for that quick fix for removing unwanted fat from their body. The truth is, while these methods work in the short term, in the long term you'll actually be heavier than you have ever been. This is because of the effect these methods of weight loss have on your body and its metabolism.

Fad diets

Fad diets like the low carb diets that have hit the news in recent years are an excellent way for you to put on more weight then you ever have. A low carb diet has absolutely no health benefits to your body what so ever, and in the end they slow down your metabolism, and leave you with no energy because energy comes from carbohydrates.

Carbohydrates not only give you energy but they feed your muscles as well. Although muscles are built mainly with protein, without carbohydrates your muscles will waste away. When your muscles waist away your body then has a higher fat percentage, and your metabolism slows down. When your metabolism slows down your body burns less calories during the day.

With a slower metabolism, and your body burning less calories your weight will eventually stay the same. This means that you'll be eating less every day, but your body is also burning less so your weight loss reaches a plateau.

While this may not seem a bad thing because you have your weight stabilized, you can't stay on your fad, low carb diet forever. It just isn't healthy, so eventually you have to start eating normally again. This means adding more protein, carbs and fat to your diet which increases your daily calorie intake.

Now you have managed to slow your metabolism down with the diet you just finished all the extra calories that you're now eating will be stored as fat. And as your body stores more fat your metabolism slows down even more because of your body's fat content.

The higher your fat content is compared to your muscle mass slows your metabolism down. This means that more of the calories that you eat will get stored as more fat.

At this point people start what they call yo-yo dieting, and that's when they keep starting a new diet to cancel out the effects of the diet they've just finished. In the end all that happens is the dieter goes into later life at the heaviest they've ever been, and the older you get the harder it is to become motivated to actually lose weight properly.

No one needs fad diets, and no one should be going into later life at a weight they're not happy with.