Do you want to lose weight fast? Well, why not look for answers on the internet? I did and I was led to believe that a three-day might work for me. The three-day diet works on the principle that certain types of foods undergo a specific metabolic reaction in the body, thus boosting metabolism and helping burn fat faster than usual. In three days, so I read, I was supposed to lose 10 pounds.
I thought this was the diet I needed to trim some excess fat from my inflated body caused by years of poor eating habits and lack of physical exercise. On the first day for breakfast, I endured a diet of black coffee, juice, a slice of bread, and a tablespoon of peanut butter. For lunch, I had half a cup of tuna, a slice of toast, and coffee. For dinner, I had three ounces of lean meat, a cup of green beans, a cup of carrots, a cup of vanilla ice cream, one medium-sized apple and black coffee.
On the second and third day, I had the same Spartan diet with slight variations of food intake. For dinner, for example, I had sausage instead of lean meat. And true enough, I did lose three pounds from the "ordeal." After going back to my normal, slightly restrained diet for four days, I decided to repeat my three-day diet and lost another two pounds for a total of five pounds in two weeks. Barely a week after concluding my two sets of three-day dietary regimen, I regained five pounds and, to my disgust, my regular weight!
The three-day diet is popularly known as a fad diet or yoyo diet that does not consider a sustainable and healthy weight loss. Critics of the diet assert that weight loss is achieved by the diet primarily because of severe calorie restriction brought on by the low amount of carbohydrate in the diet. It is a not a permanent weight loss solution, but induced, harmful and temporary.
Carbohydrates encourage the body to retain water, so when carbohydrates are withheld then the body will necessarily lose its water weight, which translates into unhealthy weight loss. There are no shortcuts to a sustainable, healthy weight loss program. An effective weight loss program is one that is anchored not just on one dietary program or physical fitness routine, but on a combination of systems that often require major lifestyle and behavioral changes.
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Terry likes to write on various topics and has been doing so for several years. His latest website is http://electricheatingpad.org which provides people with information on the functions of an electric heating pad .
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