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In basic nutrition, we need water, fats, carbohydrates, protein, minerals and vitamins. In my opinion, fad diets don't provide a balanced nutrition. If it is your goal to lose weight, talk with your physician to help you find the right path. It's been tried and true that monitoring caloric intake and exercising to burn fat will help shed the pounds.
The latest fad is the Human Chorionic Gonadotropin diet, best known as the HCG diet and it blows my mind. I've never given it a thought but recently someone asked my opinion of it. HCG is a hormone produced by pregnant women to help grow the placenta which provides nutrition to the fetus, eliminates waste and respiratory gases.
In order to lose weight, HCG dieters consume only 500 calories and get injections of the hormone. These dieters can lose about one to three pounds per day. What I know for sure is that this isn't healthy. It's better to shed about that much weight in a month but not in a day.
The healthiest way to lose weight requires hard work and it's slow and steady. Fad diets are quick fixes. Who can live on only 500 calories for a lifetime? I can't even imagine the emotional and physical tole. I know that I'll be cranky if I had to starve myself in order to lose weight. And chances are, I'd lose friends in addition to the pounds.
If fad diets worked, the first fad diet would have been the last. Say no to fad diets, and to the best of your ability, eat healthy and exercise and the weight will come off. Here's to your health!
Do you think doing a diet like this to get things jump started is a good idea? I know for me personally my food intake (what I am actually putting into my body) is easiest for me to figure out than my "work out plan." I did a low carb-diet (not Atkins per se, but like it) and it helped me loose almost 30lbs over 8 months with minimal exercise. Shedding the lbs slowly helped me feel more in control and motivated to work out and once I felt like I had my diet "nailed down" I started adding exercise to my routine (bought a treadmill and everything). Then I got pregnant and doing a low-carb diet didn't make sense, but I kept up the walking for about 4 months, and then switched to lower impact stuff (Pilates & yoga). I know someone that did the HCG diet twice now to loose weight (offered by her naturo-path) and she lost a lot of weight. A nurse I know told me the HCG diet is literally supervised starvation ... that seems no good for sure.
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