A Diet is when you restrict your food intake (or a particular food ). At any given time half of the women in the U.S. are on a diet. You can find hundreds, probably thousands of diets in the world. People go on diets for either health reasons or they are trying to lose weight fast. Fad diets promise fast weight loss and a perfect body usually without working out and a lot of the time they just have you cut calories. Sometimes diets even have products to buy, like fiber bars, drinks, and frozen dinners. Only 5 percent of dieters will keep the weight off that they lost. People from the very beginning of dieting time have focused on everything except for the food you’re putting in your body. In the late 1800’s is when the first diet aids appeared. The ingredients in them consisted of laxatives, purgatives, arsenic, strychnine, washing soda, and Epsom salts. Obviously those aren’t trending diets today. The top five diets of 2011 include: 1) the HCG diet; on this diet you get injected with hormones that pregnant women have which supposedly burn fat fast. I personally know a couple people doing this and they say they can’t work out on it and also they were told to restrict their caloric intake to 500 calories a day. 2) the Atkins diet; basically limits your carb intake. 3) the South Beach diet; it’s supposed to be a healthier version of the Atkins diet and it’s for people with heart problems. 4) the Mediterranean diet; this diet you eat lots of veggies, drink red wine, use olive oil (I just saw a new whipped olive oil spread at Wal-Mart, ha I actually bought it! ), and eat meat sparingly. 5) Low Carb Diet; it’s name says it all.
A lifestyle change is different from a diet because it’s a long term, slow, process that consists of your overall lifestyle and how you eat and why you eat, also exercise becomes apart of your daily routine. This is where terms like “slow and steady wins the face” or “Success is a steady process toward one’s personal goals”( -Jim Rohn) come in place. A good friend once told me that life is like a big rock climb. It’s slow and steady, and sometimes you have to take out rocks in order to place for your hands or feet. When we take bad habits out of our lifestyle we should replace them with a good habit. Don’t wait on someone to take your hand and help you, as harsh as that sounds, you can make a lifestyle change on your own! Be strong. Stay positive and keep a clear mind. Make rules for your life and stand by them. Some of my own rules include no fast food, the only beverages I consume is water, soy milk, and occasionally cranberry juice and sometimes red wine, no dressings or condiments, plain ol nasty oatmeal for breakfast, and then I eat every couple hours. I’m 100% imperfect though I promise!! I’m still a working progress. That however is another blog! ;)
p.s. The links down below are quite amusing you should take a peak :)
http://losebellyfat.com/definitive-list-of-fad-diets
http://www.karlloren.com/diet/p119.htm
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