You should avoid these top ten fad diets, why? I’ll go further in detail about the reasons why they should be avoided, as these diets are not the best way in the world to lose weight.

The phrase fad diets typically refer to diets that promote a restricted eating-plan, which is unhealthy, and lack in sufficient calories. We can be slim and trim as these diets work in the beginning, usually because the suggested eating regimens help you cut calories in one way or other. As soon as you go back to your normal eating pattern, it might double your weight! This formula is just like a get rich quick scheme that offers lot of money in short period.

 The first rule of the top ten fad diets don’t allow you to eat a well balanced diet and merely cause your body to crash in order to lose weight. They suggest skipping meals, its right to skip 2-3 big meals but instead I recommend you to eat 5-6 small meals in order to screw up your body.

Have you heard of 3-day diet plan? Yes, I’ve heard about this fad diet that suggests dieters to be on a diet program and eat some typical foods for only 3- days. Great, lose weight in 3-days!

Top ten fad diets strongly recommend you to consume cabbage soup for seven days, only! Does this soup taste great? I think this taste problem plays an important role in cabbage soup diet plan, hope you understood my point. Naturally you will eat less and lose weight in 7 days.

It is the same case with raw food diet plan that permits you to eat uncooked vegetables, fruits, nuts, and whole grains. This is a vegetarian diet and if you’re non-vegetarian fan you’ll naturally consume less diet and in the process lose weight!

Should I say that Atkins diet is the best fad diet? In this diet plan carbohydrates are severely restricted and you can only eat high protein and high fat foods. Personally I feel this diet plan is insufficient for your permanent weight loss program.

The next amongst the top ten fad diets is the grape diet plan. It’s all right you love to eat grapes, but it’s frustrating if you’re ordered to eat grapes or drink its juice regularly for a long duration.

The negative calorie fad diet plan sounds interesting! This diet involves eating foods that burn more calories to digest than you will consume. Great, but I don’t think there are foods that actually have negative calories!

Can you rely on lemonade diet plan? In this plan you have to stay away from solid foods and even plain water. Thanks; at least you’re allowed to take water with lemon, maple syrup or cayenne pepper. Just keep on drinking glasses of this lemonade mixture daily, if you’re still hungry have another glass, isn’t this so simple!

Generally you’ll not believe on me if I tell you that the ice cream diet is one of my favorite top ten fad diets. Why should you believe? I don’t suggest eating only ice cream but you can eat calorie-controlled meals, salads, and fruits and home made vegetable soup.

Finally, caveman diet plan is becoming one of the more popular fad diets. This diet suggests you to return to the eating habits of the days when humans lived in caves and depend on foods from the land. I agree this fact but one cannot stick to this diet plan for longer period of time, which is when MacDonald’s in sight.

The above listed top ten fad diets will not enable you to lose weight for long term, but you can lose weight for short term. Avoid fad dieting; instead eat a balanced diet that includes foods from all groups. Good eating habits and exercise can lead you to permanent weight loss.

The vast majority of people start dieting in order to lose weight. Losing weight can be accomplished in a number of ways. A diet is simply a specific method for accomplishing that task.

When one decides that they need to lose weight, the first thing that must be considered is the reason for wanting to lose weight. Is the weight loss going to be directed at a way to gain better health or is it more of a vanity reason? The reason for dieting is as important as the method used to lose the weight.

If attaining a more healthy lifestyle and striving for better health is the reason, it should not be of any concern how long the dieting takes to achieve the weight loss goal, if in fact there is a goal. If good health is the main objective, length of time should not be an issue because the diet should simply be a part of a life-style change in which the dieting change would be a long-term part of the life-style anyway.

If, on the other hand, vanity is the reason and the dieting person is hell bent on losing a significant amount of weight in a short period of time in order to fit into an object of clothing or simply to look great at the class reunion in a month, the method chosen for dieting will be completely different and, most likely, quite unhealthy.

Long term lifestyle type diets are usually of the type that occur in small increments of weight loss and continue as exercise is slowly increased and more healthy food, in smaller portions is consumed. These are usually quite simple diets that don’t cause a significant amount of suffering as long as the dieting person is committed to the long-term goals.

The vanity type diet is usually a quick but very self-denying diet in which the dieting person eats very little or eats foods that do not tempt the pallet as far as taste or attractiveness go. Often, very large amounts of water are incorporated into these diets and most people do not drink enough water to begin with. When they are confronted with the need to increase their water intake significantly, they hesitate or they are not very compliant. Water, when one is not thirsty, simply does not taste very good.

The vanity diet also usually requires a substantial increase in activity in the form of exercise and most people have a strong aversion to that form of activity.

There are also diets that are not in either the lifestyle change nor the vanity dieting lists but are really a forced lifestyle change that is completely necessary for the dieting person to continue to live. Once such diet is the diabetic diet. If one ignores their diabetes and continues to eat large amounts of carbohydrates, as most Americans do, they will eventually suffer serious health deterioration. So, the necessary-for-life diets are not the ones we are really concerned with in this article.

There are a number of different diets available for each of the non-necessity diets. The basic lifestyle change diet has already been described though some of the latter day fad diets are also appropriate for long-term dieting if the person doing the dieting is indeed dedicated to the lifestyle change. Some specific fad diets that would work for this person are the Atkins or low-carb diet, The Zone diet or the South Beach diet.

The extreme vanity diet person can also use the low carb diet for fast weight loss or they can try starvation or if they really want to lose weight fast and suffer a bit more but at least retain some type of decent health, they can attempt the Lemonade Diet.

The lemonade diet is highly effective but is more a fast than a diet and a special mixture of water, cayenne pepper, lemon juice and syrup are required. One must be highly dedicated to losing weight for this diet to work as no food is allowed for a period of at least ten days and the Lemonade dieter will feel worse before they feel like a million dollars. The diet is extremely effective for losing ten pounds or more in ten days though. The added benefit of this diet is that it does a thorough job of cleaning the colon.

Each one of the above mentioned diets should be highly suspect and not just accepted for it’s reputation or the current fad. One who is considering dieting should, at the very least, buy the book that is written about the diet in order to learn how the diet works with the body and effects the different body systems. Each of the authors has a lot of information included in their book about these concerns.

The main point of this article is to point out to anyone who is considering dieting that they should be very careful and choose a diet that meets their goals and health concerns. Don’t blindly go into any diet without knowing how it’s supposed to effect you, what you’re supposed to eat while on the diet, how much weight you are expected to lose in a specific period of time and what are the benefits and health concerns that attach to that diet.

In fact, it is a very good idea to discuss any diet plans with your health care professional prior to starting or even considering one of the above diets.