Gimmick Diets are a Joke

Every week a wild eyed entrepreneur comes out with a new diet. There are protein diets, carbohydrate diets, liquid diets, and recently I even saw a fatty food diet.

Every one of these wacky diets have legions of people who have successfully lost weight while on the diet. But since the diets are so ridiculous, very few people continue with it for longer than a month, but they are happy to have lost a few pounds during that period. Then a few months later, the weight returns.

Even though these diets are bunk, here is why they work:

• The dieter naturally does not have most of the food they are allowed to eat available so they eat less
• The dieter has to be conscious of every meal and consequently can’t slip into some sort of unconscious eating binge.
• Since the dieter is trying to lose weight and has been given great optimism by their new wacky diet, they are motivated to eat less.

After a few weeks go by, the dieter figures out how to eat more and still obey the rules of the diet, the old habits of undisciplined eating return, the motivation fades, and the diet stops working. If you don’t believe me, try my new diet and I guarantee that you will lose lots of weight in the first two weeks!

1. You can only eat fruit for breakfast (as much as you want) and one bagel or roll.
2. You can eat any fruits or vegetables until lunch. Eat as much as you want!
3. All drinks must be water or juice.
4. From Lunch to dinner, eat only carbohydrates! You can eat as much as you like as long as it doesn’t have too much salt, fat, or sugar. But you can eat all the carbohydrates you like.
5. For dinner you can eat whatever you like as long as it is not more than 750 calories.
6. Don’t eat anything for more than 3 hours before going to bed.

If you follow those rules I guarantee you will lose lots of weight! But I also guarantee that in one month, you will quit and go back to your normal overweight life. If you really want to lose weight, make permanent realistic long term changes to become more active and/or eat less, but don’t follow some gimmick diet for $89.99 and expect it to change your figure.

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