Types of Weight-Loss Diet

There are so many types of weight loss diets on offer, it's easy to become overwhelmed with the choices available to you.

I feel that most loss diets for losing weight are mere fads. They are rolled out by some high-profile author or other personality, they achieve publicity and gain a following for a while. And eventually they become just another diet plan.

The problem with any diet plan is our own mentality - our expectations. When we go on a diet., we all do the diet plan, fully expecting that we'll be allowed to go off that diet after a fixed number days or weeks.

A diet isn't a prison sentence, folks. If you go off the diet, the chances are that you're going to want to reward yourself for all the hard work and deprivation you feel you've undergone to be good... to lose a few inches and shed a few pounds or kilos.

The moment you reward yourself with those snacks or naughty foods that you crave, your body is going to put back all the weight you just lost. And what's more, it usually adds a few more inches and pounds than when you started.

Why does your body do this? It's a survival mechanism built in by Mother Nature, whether we like it or not.

While we were being oh so good and losing weight on the crash diet, our body was going into a starvation/survival mode because it thinks there's no food available. It acts like you are experiencing a famine, just like those starving kids in Africa or other 3rd World countries that we see on the news.

So our bodies burn up some fat as fuel to provide us with the energy to get through our days of low-calorie or low-carb eating. Then, the minute we jump back on the food wagon and eat the goodies we crave, our bodies say "Whoopee!" and store away as much fat as they can -- as insurance -- to try and keep us alive through the next "famine" that comes along.

You and I gained those extra pounds slowly, over a matter of months or years. If we can lose them slowly as well, then we will have the best chance of not just losing weight but keeping it off as well.

Next, we can take a look at some lo-carb diets.