Crash Diets and What You Need To Know About Them

The key to a successful weight loss program is finding the right diet that suits your lifestyle and your budget. Crash diets are popular among weight loss enthusiasts because of the fast results they claim to produce. However, crash diets only fulfill short term goals. Oftentimes, they alter your eating pattern to a great extent causing problems such as weakness and low energy. Before you take on any kind of weight loss diets, it is recommended to visit your health care provider or nutritionist. This will help you ensure you stay healthy even when dieting.

Listed below are some of the most popular weight loss diets.

1. Cabbage Soup Diet – It is designed to lose about 10 lbs in a week by heavy consumption of low calorie cabbage soup.  Beverages are limited to water and unsweetened fruit juices on days where fruits are allowed according to the diet plan.

Day 1 – Cabbage Soup, fruits as many as desired except bananas

Day 2 – Cabbage Soup, vegetables including baked potato with a little butter

Day 3 – Cabbage Soup, fruits and vegetables except potatoes and bananas

Day 4 – Cabbage Soup, eight bananas, as much skimmed milk as desired

Day 5 – Cabbage Soup, beef of up to 10 ounces and six tomatoes

Day 6 – Cabbage Soup, as much beef and vegetables as desired except potatoes

Day 7 – Cabbage Soup, brown rice, vegetables except potatoes, unsweetened fruit juice

1. Low Carbohydrate Diets or Low Carb diets – It is a weight loss diet designed to restrict carbohydrate consumption. Foods that are high in digestible carbohydrates are limited or replaced with high protein foods, fats and high fiber foods such as vegetables.
2. Negative Calorie Diets – this type of diet is highly controversial because of its unsound scientific basis. It gained popularity on the idea that some foods require burning calories in order to digest. Thus the name negative calorie. However, the weight loss comes primarily from the loss of muscles rather than the loss of fats. It claims that when you eat certain food that is rich in vitamins and minerals such as orange, you will 25 calories.

Effective weight loss programs do not revolve around diets. If you want to lose and maintain weight effectively, it is still best to couple any kind of diets with exercise. Success requires change in lifestyle.