Myth: Fad Diets Help You Lose Weight Forever

If it promises miracle results in a matter of days and you’re eating in a very unbalanced way, it’s a fad diet. You might actually lose weight on it, but you will have a very difficult time maintaining that weight loss unless you plan to eat in the same unbalanced way for the rest of your life! That wouldn’t be healthy and if you aren’t healthy, it really doesn’t matter how trim you are.

Fad diets are made for quick, yet unsustainable weight loss and they are simply unhealthy enough that they may actually harm you. It’s smarter to learn the right way to eat for steady and maintainable weight loss.