Quick Weight Loss Diets Do They Work?
  

Crash weight loss plans and fad diets are an unwise alternative to permanent healthy eating habits, according to the American Heart Association. Often doctors will prescribe diet pills to help when people ask how to lose weight quick but need a little help.

What is a fad diet?  It's a well marketed diet with some outrageous scheme to lose weight in an impossible manner, often by eating nothing but one food like a cabbage.

Quick-weight-loss diets generally put far too much focus on one particular food or type of  food. They don't include a variety of foods or a healthy balance, a violation of the first principle of good nutrition, eat a balanced diet that includes a variety of foods.

Because no one food has all the nutrients needed for good health, these diets can result in a lot of health problems. One such diet is the Cabbage Soup Diet. The myth of this diet is that cabbage soup is some sort of fat dissolving potion. People supposedly lost 10-17 pounds in only a week, eating primarily cabbage soup.  On top of not working to lose weight, this diet lacks essential nutrients and can cause serious problems.  Pixies, elves and fairies, or even cabbages, can't provide magical weight loss. 

Moderation in eating all the major food groups is the best bet. The second principle of good nutrition is that eating should be enjoyable.  You think eating only cabbages every day is enjoyable?. It's impossible to stay on these diets for a long time because they're so monotonous. 

Consider a week on the Cabbage Soup Diet.  By mid week crawling bugs would look good.  They'd carry you away in a straight jacket by week's end. Boredom isn't the only reason fad diets aren't good ones.  Most don't talk about exercise, such as aerobics for 30 minutes a day every day. Physical activity helps maintain weight loss, while physical inactivity is a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke.  When you hear a diet that mentions "no need for exercise" run for the hills, or at least run on a treadmill.

Quick weight loss is possible. But if a program sounds too good to be true, it usually is.