What Happens When Diets Stop Working?

Have you ever been on a diet only to find out that it stopped working? You know what I mean. You start on a diet whether it is latest fad diet or not. You follow it to the letter. It works for a couple of weeks and then, everything just stops working.

Why Do People Stop Diets?

What happens when you cut your intake of food? Your body starts to send signals to the brain that it is not getting all the extra food that it is used to getting. At first the signal is quiet, but as time passes, it gets really load. (That’s my unscientific take on this.) The point I am making is that reducing food intake causes your body to slow down.

At first you lose weight fairly quickly. But as the warning signal gets heard in the brain, it sends out commands to the body that its time to go into a starvation mode. This causes the body to slow down and become accustomed to the lower intake of food.

Your Body Is Like The Borg

Have you ever watched the TV series, Star Trek New Generation? On this show is a race called the Borg. The Borg are a rather scary group of aliens because their whole purpose in life was to assimilate the various races they encountered. When ever they were met with resistance, the Borg would quickly adapt to the attack and make it useless.

Your body does the same thing. That load signal that is sent to the brain at first is like the attacks on the Borg. It quickly adapts and makes the attack useless. Thus, your diet program seems to stop. When it stops, what do you think happens? Exactly. You stop the program thinking that this doesn’t work. Why should you try any longer.

Overcoming The Borg In You

To overcome this adaptation, you have to do the same thing. Adapt just as quickly. To break out of the shutdown, you should look at cycling your program and exercises. Rotate from a lower intake to a higher intake every few days or every other day. Change up your exercises every week or two.

Keep your body guessing as to what you will be doing. While it is in this state of confusion, it doesn’t have time to worry about whether or not you are in the “starvation” mode. It is not sure what mode you are in since nothing is constant. When this happens, your body keeps shrinking down to the size you want it to.

Always keep in mind that what ever you do decide on, please verify this with your health care professional as they are fully aware of your specific health needs.

Until Next Time…

Chocolate Diet

I know this may show my age a bit, but how many of you remember the diet candy product called Ayds. You remember that little morsel you ate when you were hungry during the day that was to reduce your appetite. Of course with the way the use of words has changed, it might be hard to promote “Ayds”. Think about it. Your friend asks you how you lost weight, you tell them, “I have Ayds”. Yikes!

Chocolate Diet Program

While the company that started the Ayds candy to help people lose weight may have had a good idea, the real question you have to ask yourself is did it really train you to eat properly once you were done with your “diet”. You see, the biggest challenge that people have in losing weight is developing good eating habits. During the diet, they are forced to eat in a certain way. It is usually one in which the person would not do willingly if they weren’t so desperate to lose weight. Once it is over, they fall back on their normal eating patterns.

Diets Don’t Work

This is a statement that people ignore over and over again. They still run to the latest pill to lose weight, the latest severe diet program to lose weight, or to the latest exercise program to lose weight. They have no intention of doing anything other than lose the weight so they can get back to their life again. That’s why diets don’t work. Nothing really changes except for the amount you will continue to spend and support this diet industry.

Chocolate Diet Example

Fad Diet TV came across a pretty funny video that illustrates how people like to lose their weight. Fast and easy, don’t care how it works, just so I lose those unwanted pounds. Check it out…

What about you? How do you select a diet program? We hope you take some time to evaluate the full deal and to see if it will actually be something you can do long term.

Until Next Time…

Diets From Hell

Have you ever gone on a diet and had some really bad effects from it? Maybe you hair where it wasn’t supposed to grow or it messed up something on your body. While this is not too fun, it would be interesting to log the bad stuff so people can avoid.

What about some exercise program which promised you those tight buns and chiseled abs. You know the ones you do in 5 minutes a day or less. How did that work for you? Did you get the results that they claimed or was it totally bogus, 100% crap.

Today, Fad Diet TV is going to open up a new category for its readers to share their own experiences from diet hell. However, there are a few rules you need to follow.

1) Keep it  clean. This is a family site so don’t write something that would be offensive. Just write the truth. You know the old saying that truth is stranger than fiction is actually true. So just present the facts.

2) As just stated, present the facts. Let’s not make up stuff that isn’t true. There are so many stupid diet programs out there that there is enough for everyone to write about that is true and factual.

3) If it is funny, we really want to hear about it. Why? Because that’s what Fad Diet TV is all about - having fun and showing just how crazy this industry can be.

You should see a new category show up at the top on this site once I post this and we look forward to some really great stories.

Until next time…

Chocolate Diet?

How many times have you gone on a diet only to discover that you have a strong craving for your favorite food? I know that my strongest food I love is bread, but another favorite is chocolate. Who doesn’t like chocolate?

Biggest Drawback To Diets

These sweets and delicacies are what keeps us fat. However, Fad Diet TV came across an interesting candy that will keep you on the slimmer side of life. Check out this funny video. I bet you would stay away from this type of chocolate.

What do you think about these chocolates? Yummy, huh?

Until Next Time…

Next Page »