{"id":46465,"date":"2021-08-18T08:23:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T12:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=46465"},"modified":"2021-08-27T08:56:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T12:56:32","slug":"why-fad-diets-dont-work-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/why-fad-diets-dont-work-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Fad Diets Don’t Work and What to Do Instead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What’s all the backlash against fad diets? Why do most people gain the weight back after losing it on a fad diet?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you tried a fad diet and lost weight but you either gained it back or found it too hard to maintain, you’re not alone. Fad diets don’t work in the long term for these four reasons: they rely on the user losing water weight, you get bored of eating the same foods, your food choices are too limited, or you don’t feel satisfied with the foods you’re eating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is why fad diets don’t work<\/a> and what to do instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Why Fad Diets Don’t Work<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

(There\u2019s some confusion about how fad diets don\u2019t require counting calories but still allow for weight loss.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No matter what diet you use, there is no escaping Calories In, Calories Out. To do otherwise would be to violate \u201cconservation of energy,\u201d one of the physical laws of the universe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most fad diets don\u2019t talk about this principle because they want their diets to seem more magical than they really are. If they said, \u201cwith our diet, you\u2019ll lose weight by reducing your daily calorie intake, which you could do by yourself and your own diet\u201d they would sell a lot fewer subscriptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But fad diets do help some people lose some weight, for some period of time (many fall off the diet and regain the weight). It might have done this for you. So for some period of time, the fad diet was causing you to eat less without your having to think about it. Here is why fad diets don’t work:<\/p>\n\n\n\n