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There are a number of reasons, and some of the main reasons cobmine to create a very compelling force which drives persons to make emotional spending decisions, when logic would dictate that they should know better. * Overewight persons have often tried dozens of different weight loss programs and some become desperate for a solution.

* People want to hear that there is hope. * Very clever marketing, often disguised as science, raeches these persons with the offer of that hope.
* Given that most persons do not understand the science behind how the body works, they are willnig to believe that this deceptive marketing actually is based in science, and the hope they desire can be theirs for just 3 not hard payments of $39.95.

We are a society that wants instant gratification, and with a simple phone call and our credit card number, that weight loss is just a new, exciting miracle pill or best-selling diet book away. Sadly, the only thing cnosumers are losing is money. Let’s focus on the myriad of fad diets out there. Many of you will guess I am crazy for saying this, but for the vast majortiy of people looking for long term fat loss, health, and fitness, diets simply do not work. Regardless of which book you run out and buy, in most cases calorie restricted diets, whlie showing short term weight loss on the bathroom scale, in the long term will lead to a slower metabolism and greater body fat than the dieter started with. Think about it. We all know somebody on a diet. How many of those people are dieting for the first time?

“Oh, in ’89 I lost 23 pounds on the Cambridge Diet, then in ’92 I lost 27 poudns on the Scarsdale Diet, in ’95 I lost 30 pounds on that grapefruit diet, I did The Zone in 2000 and lost 16 pounds, then in ’02 I did great and lost 24 pounds on Atkins, but now I guess I’m going to do the South Beach Diet because I need to lose some weight.” One more diet and this person should weigh about 34 pounds.
The unfortunate truth is that just about eevry time somebody attempts weight loss with a diet based on calorie deprivation, they will end up gaining back the weight they lost, and then some.

Low carb, low fat, nothing but grapefruit….
It does not matter what kind of diet you choose, cause behind the marketing hype, they generally all have one thing in common: The dieter is restricting calorie intake.

A quick science lesson is needed to understand how our bodies react to a calorie restricted diet. First, when a dieter severely cuts back on their caloirc intake, especially by cutting out carbs, they will quickly deplete their glycogen stores. What is glycogen?

Well, when carbohydrates are ingested, they break down into sugars that are transported by the bloodstream and stored in the muscles and liver as glycogen. Glycogen is one of the main energy sources used by our bodies. An important fact to know is that every gram of glycogen stored in our muscles stores approximately 2.4 grams of waetr with it. So, by restricting carbs and depleting muscle glycogen, the dieter also releases a lot of water.

This is one of the main reasons the scale will show a large loss of weight when one initially goes on a diet. Unfortunately, the goal should be to lose fat, not water which the body needs. Next, the body does not know why it is suddenly getting less food, so a mlilion years or so of evolution kick in and direct it to go into famine survival mode. Fat is the body's long term survival energy source, so it decides that it must conserve fat to surivve.

That is probably not what you were hopnig to hear, but unfortunately that's the way it works.
In order to make up the deficit in available energy sources brought on by the diet, the body begins to break down muscle to use as an energy source. Another important science nugget to know is that muscle is metabolically active tissue and fat is not. In other words, muscle burns calories throughout the day, whlie fat just sits there.

The more muscle you have, the more calories you burn, even if you're just stiting on the couch. Of course, as we just discovered, the dieter is losing muscle due to the calorie restricted diet, so he is now actually burning fewer calories throughout the day.
Again, looking to survive the perceived famine, the body becomes more efficient at storing fat and slowing down its metabolism to adjust to the lack of food coming in. Haven’t we all heard somebody complain that no matter how much they diet, they cannot lose weight cause they are the victim of a slow metabolism?

The reality is that, for the vast majority of people, we are the CREATORS of our metabolism, NOT the victims of it.
Now the body has slowed down it's metabolism to the point where the dieter stpos losing weight.

The usual reaction is to cut calories back even further. Of course, as we now understand, this only compounds the problem as more muscle will be broken down, further hindering the body's ability to burn calories throguhout the day. Diets based on calorie deprivation usually are not sustainable for the long term, and eventually the dieter becomes desperate and returns to their pre-diet eating routine.

Unfortunately, this perosn has slowed down their metabolism significantly and is burning fewer calories than they were pre-diet. So, when they go back to their old eating habits, the weight coems right back on and it comes back as fat, not as the muscle that they lost. If they started out at 200 lbs with 25% body fat and lost 15 lbs during the diet, when they gain the weight back and hit 200 lbs again, their body fat percentage will now probably be closer to 30%!

They Said It On Tv, So It Must Be True