Weight Loss With The 3-Day Diet
Weight Loss With The 3-Day Diet
It seems that everyone is trying strange fads or ingesting crazy concoctions these days to induce weight loss or improve their health. They want to get a slim quick fix, or an easy elixir of youth, or something else equally absurd, instead of putting in the time and effort required to improve their health.
The latest fad is called the 3 day diet. It claims that, by consuming what it tells you to, you can lose ten pounds in three days. This is absurd, and unhealthy as well. It tells you to eat saltine crackers, toast, eggs, tuna, coffee, tea, apples and cheese. All regular stuff, nothing magical or “high tech” in any of it, and in 3 days, you’re supposed to lose all of that weight. I have trouble believing it.
If it is true, it is probably because of the small amount you eat on the 3 day diet, and it probably is mostly “water weight.” Water weight means that what you lose is mostly water flushing out of your system, and very little body fat is actually reduced. Losing water weight is actually pretty pointless since it just means getting dehydrated. This can be dangerous, and is certainly unhealthy.
The best way to lose weight is the old, traditional way. You exercise regularly, eat lots of green leafy vegetables, fruits in moderation, cut out processed and fatty foods, and don’t snack between meals. Also, very high carbohydrate food is not really good for your diet either as it will fill you up with calories. This is not a 3 day diet, or even a 30 day diet, but nonetheless, within a couple of months, you will be slimmer and healthier, and happier too.
There are diets that are outright dangerous. The Atkins diet, for example, works by throwing your liver into ketosis by eating nothing but lots of protein. This can cause liver damage, and in some cases, death. Nonetheless, it does make you lose weight at a high rate of speed, but once you get off it, you will probably gain the weight right back.
So stay away from fads like the 3 day diet. If you want to succeed with your weight loss program and keep it off, you have to make permanent lifestyle changes. There are no quick fixes.
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Bill Brine
Tags: diet, obesity, Weight Loss