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Are Fat Loss Diets Worth Pursuing Or Are They All Fads?

Everybody wants to lose their fat.
Whether you're flabby on your stomach, or you are skinny, the impression is just the same: you need to go on various fat loss diets; else you won't look like the next Hollywood star featured on the latest trendy magazine.
This idea about fat loss diets has been ingrained in us by the media.
TV is all about it.
Just look at all the advertising between the movies.
Magazines and newspapers are full of it as well.
And don't forget about those internet ads.
All this really makes one feel ugly and unworthy to even live fully unless one has gone through at least 3 fat loss diets a year.
So what is it with the fat loss diets anyway and why are they so important nowadays? They all promise 3 things that we all crave as human beings: fast weight loss (think of weight loss in 3 days or a week tops!), permanent weight loss (once you lose it, it's gone forever), and effortless weight loss.
Let's analyze them for a second: Most fat loss diets promote starvation to get you to the optimal (think skinny, anorexic) weight of the superstars.
Would you really go on a starvation binge just to lose your fat fast? Permanent weight loss is not truly achievable with most fat loss diets, because of the way they are working on and in your body.
To achieve permanent weight loss you need much more than a fat loss diet.
Effortless...
to lose weight, you need to combine a healthy diet with some exercise which does take a bit of effort.
So do not trust any diet that promises you effortless weight loss, because they only tell you half the truth! You should pay then half the price for such a program! So how good are fat loss diets then, and can you still trust them? Well, if you know which ones to go after, then yes.
If you go blindly in, you'll miss the gems between the weeds out there.
Go beyond commercial products.
Here are some tips that will help you in your fat loss diets: -eat smaller meals and eat them more often -drink lots of water (8 glasses of water at least per day) -fruits, vegetables anyone? Yes, they should be in your regular everyday diet -exercise, even if just a little everyday but keep your body busy to burn that fat -you need a healthy doze of sleep per night, so make sure you go to be early.
If you have to wake up at 7, be in the bed by 11, latest midnight.
If your body is tired, and you're forcing a strong diet as well, you won't be able to cope with stuff in the long run, and you'll burn out.
Fat loss diets can definitely work and they are worth pursuing, but not blindly.
Make sure you do your research, and you also follow some common sense rules of everyday life, as in the examples I just gave you above.
Once you do that, you will soon start to see some great results.

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