Fad diets are like a nice summer day. They're great at the time, but you know at some point the sunshine ends.
Some of us find success in fad diets though. For some of us, fad diets jumpstart our weight loss goals. But do they do more harm than good?
According to this article, fad diets are a "waste of time and energy" and that while they do help many people lose weight rapidly, once we settle back in to our "real lives" we cannot continue to maintain the quick weight loss.
Sometimes, the article says, fad diets mask the real issues behind our overweight-ness in the first place, and give us a quick solution to something that otherwise should be more closely examined. Why we overeat, for example, remains a question left unanswered, and if the reason is emotional and something we could learn to control with other means, we can kill the problem without having to go on a radical diet.
I've definitely been tempted into almost trying a few fad diets. One, for example, is the cottage cheese diet. This one I definitely would have tried...if I could, at all, tolerate eating cottage cheese let alone only eating cottage cheese for the duration of the diet.
I've also been tempted by The Cookie Diet, The Ice Cube Diet, and The Burrito Diet. But I usually seem to talk myself out by convincing myself it would be impossible to live the rest of my life eating only cookies, ice cubes (ha) or burritos, so why try for even a period of time to make it the only thing I eat?
What do YOU think? Do fad diets work?
posted @ Wednesday, July 14, 2010 10:08 PM