Can you really buy a fat trapper? How about a fat blaster? Can you lose weight without dieting? What about without exercise? Can you lose weight while sleeping? Do diet pills really work? The answer is no! Diet pills do not work and they are a complete waste of time when striving for long term weight loss. Diet pills like fad diets are a waste of time, effort and money. You need to avoid all diet pills and keep away from fad diets completely.

If you watch infomercials, you may think or hope they work but. BEWARE!! If it sounds too good to be true it probably is too good to be true. You cannot live on a fad diet for the rest of your life. Fad diets include low carb diets, high fat diets, liquid diets, and restricted calorie diets. Fad diets make surreal claims about weight loss often making statements of rapid weight loss of more than two pounds a week. All diet pills are somehow in fad diets because the pills hit the market and make a sensation while the owners make their millions in revenue and whoosh, they are gone because they really do not work.

Fad diets promise you an all you can eat plan which is usually unbalanced. Many diets are very low in calorie content. What this usually results in is yo-yo dieting, which means a repeating condition of a losing and gaining weight cycle.

The main problem is that we are looking to melt our fat away or blast the fat right out of the universe. We all know that permanent weight loss means making changes in our lifestyles. This includes altering our eating habits, how we prepare food, and how much we eat.

High protein, low carbohydrate diets are especially popular. They promote quick weight loss by restricting healthy foods. Low carb diets usually don't distinguish between healthy carbohydrates, like fruits and whole grains which are full of beneficial fiber, and simple sugars, like white sugar, white bread and processed starches.

High protein diets advise you to eat excessive amounts of protein and fat. This becomes unhealthy because your brain needs carbohydrates for fuel. Staying on this type diet for long periods of time causes your body to go into a fasting state of ketosis.

When you eat protein, two of the by-products formed in the liver is nitrogen and urea. If your diet is excessive in protein, it causes the liver and kidneys to work extra hard to metabolize protein and to eliminate the toxic by-products. This produces an increased fluid loss which shows up on the scales as weight loss.

High protein diets deplete calcium and increases the risk for osteoporosis.

So BEWARE, when someone is losing weight quickly on a weight loss plan, or if it sounds too good to be true it probably is, too good to be true. The true meaning of diet is "manner of living." Diet just means the food you normally eat; it really hasn't anything to do with weight loss.

Balanced Weight Loss

A balanced diet provides adequate nutrition to maintain your weight. This is what will keep us healthy. This doesn't mean that you can't splurge once in awhile and have something rich or fatty occasionally. It is your diet for the long term that will prove to be healthy or not.

What is successful dieting for gradual weight loss and maintaining? It is a meal plant that is well balanced with adequate calories and nutrition. This would include healthy amounts of carbohydrates, protein, and minimal fat, especially saturated fat.

Adding exercise into your lifestyle is important. Building lean muscle mass will improve your metabolism and your appearance. Find a weight loss plan that provides good nutrition and lots of variety which will spice up your life.

So are you ready to trim down with me? Enjoy a healthier and happier life? Join my husband and I as we walk down the path to a brighter and healthier tomorrow.

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