The first search we make to lose weight is surely one of the miraculous diets that eliminates the excess pounds in record time. Is this possible?
Personally, talking about "diet" as a temporary process seems to me a mistake. If we want to lose weight and improve our quality of life, we must focus our goal on changing the style of diet and exercise .
It is useless to spend three months eating in a restricted way and eliminating food groups, to return to eating in an unhealthy way having reached our weight goal. Because you also fear the rebound effect, right?
Miraculous diets
Miracle diets not only do not exist, but are harmful to our body. I would like to name some of the miracle diets that promise benefits while subjecting your body to the extreme.
- Atkins diet: it is a hyperfat and hyperprotein diet. It loses weight very quickly because only fats are burned instead of carbohydrates , since they are not ingested; But this comes at a price called ketosis: vitamin deficiencies, headaches, fatigue, and long-term negative effects.
- Blood group diet : Depending on your blood group, you can take certain foods or not. For example, people with blood group A should follow a vegetarian diet and avoid dairy products; as well as people in group 0, they must consume mostly meat (hyperproteic diet). A real madness!
- Dukan diet or method : the most fashionable miracle diet in recent years. Sadly, these types of diets become known for being the eating method of famous people and proclaiming it among their followers.
It is divided into 4 stages: attack stage, cruise stage, consolidation stage and final stabilization. The attack stage is based on the consumption of only protein. And you have to be very alert because an excessive consumption of protein and a lack of carbohydrates can cause bone decalcification and kidney damage . Furthermore, these diets can cause dehydration due to the great loss of liquids and minerals.
What are miracle diets based on?
All of them usually radically prohibit any specific food or food group. I take this opportunity to remind you that you should always consume the three main food groups (carbohydrates, proteins and fats), whether you are on a "diet" or not. In addition, these diets offer you a list of good foods and bad foods . Is it really bad to keep bread in your diet and is it good to eat only artichoke?
His promises are very quick ffects and slimming, but subtly you advise a dietary product with effects '' extraordinary '' for health and weight loss.
To all this we must add countless photos of people who have physically changed following their steps.
So what would be a good diet to lose weight?
We have to carry out a diet that seeks to reduce body fat while maintaining lean mass, that is effective in the long term, that instills new nutritional values and eliminates incorrect ones, that we can maintain in a long period of time and, above all, that improve our self-esteem without damaging health.
