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The majority of fad diets are nothing more than very low-calorie diets with a gimmick or smoke screen to cover up this fact. Whether you’re told to eat a grapefruit or drink a strange mixture, at the end of the day, you’ve consumed fewer calories, often to the extreme.

At best, there’s a small grain of truth in each theory but only to a minuscule degree. All that these diets do is, once again, cover up the fact that calories are being restricted, no matter what horse and pony show went into making you not eat. And most of the time, you will not be able to stick with it because people, quite simply, get hungry! We like to eat. We don’t usually enjoy hunger pangs, weakness and dizziness. We do enjoy treats like chocolate and crisps. We can go some time without these things but if you ignore a craving long enough, chances are it’ll come back to bite you on the bum and a little craving for a taste of chocolate will snowball into eating an entire box!

Let’s recap:

 Healthy weight loss relies on one equation.

 Fad diets fail because most are very low-calorie diets (VLCDs for short).

 Fad diets fail because they are too stringent.

 Fad diets fail because they are not built for the long run.

Fad diets fail because starving yourself will mess with your metabolism! Metabolism? I know what you’re thinking: ‘You said you’d keep it simple!’ I will, I will.