To be successful you just can start on a diet. A diet is more of a symptomatic treatment and it doesn’t treat the real reason for you being overweight. The 5% that succeeds are those that make a profound change in their lifestyle. You have to change your attitude towards food, cooking and ingredients. Exercise is usually a an important ingredient in the new life. A diet can help if it is holistic and take every part of your life into the diet. There are a few that are proven to do really well, weightwatchers are one of those, another one is called ‘Burn the Fat, Feed The Muscle’. Those diet plans gives you a fundamental ideology on a healthy lifestyle.
Other diets based on non-fat and low-calorie are also great for losing weight in a short period of time but once you start to eat normally you gain the pounds you lost. Why? – Well, for example, if you go on a low calorie diet you lose some weight in the first days but then your body adjusts its metabolism to burn less calories. After one week on this extreme diet you may have lost up to 7 pounds but you don’t feel very well. After the diet ends and you go back to eating normally your body is still in starvation-mode and it starts to save all of the extra calories and where do the body save those calories? – In fat tissue, and that means that you most likely gain the pounds you tortured your self to lose.