Thread: healthy diet plan??

The study claims that regardless of your diet's composition of fat, protein and carbs, there is a "clinically significant fat loss." Aside from the glamour of the term, what you'll find is an average fat loss of 9 pounds during a two-year period. Ouch, that's pretty bad.

Research is great because it drives many of the practices we use in the applied field. Regardless of what research says, there is only one thing that matters in the real world - results.

The study was used on overweight and obese individuals who likely are to lose weight with dietary intervention.

Before ever starting another diet plan, you need to think about two functional principles that must be obeyed for it to be a success:

> Does it serve the body, i.e., is it healthy?

> Is it sustainable long-term?

Fad diets that guarantee 10 pounds lost in seven days or other empty promises don't work because they violate these two rules. They likely are deficient in a number of essential nutrients, and it's virtually impossible to stay on the diets forever.

A diet really is a lifestyle of the way you eat. It is not something you do to lose weight quickly and then quit. This leads to the yo-yo process of perpetual weight gain and weight loss.

The type of diet you adopt should be specific to you. For some people, it might be a lowered carbohydrate diet. For others, it might be a low-fat diet.

The bottom line is to find a healthy diet you can maintain for your life.


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True. If the diet you chose does is not healthy and not sustainable long term, your current weight would be hard to maintain or you could gained back all the pounds you've shed. It's important that you chose a diet that you can live with, not a diet that you are forced to get into for the sake of losing weight.