Safe Dieting To Ensure Healthy Weight Loss

Losing weight is one of the most difficult tasks for those who are overweight. This can be really frustrating because people tend to lose motivation while dieting. Another problem is that people tend to fall for many of the problematic quick weight loss scams. This makes them suffer from a lot of health problems. Most of the time, people tend to feel defeated and discouraged to the core. The basic problem is that most people do not realize that weight loss cannot result from shortcuts. Starving and living on raw food can cause serious deficiencies in the body.

Here are some of the serious side effects one can suffer from during unsafe dieting:

* Prolonged hunger
* Reduced sex drive
* Depression
* Irritability
* Fatigue
* Muscle atrophy
* Rashes
* Fainting
* Sinus problems
* Acidosis
* Gallbladder disease
* Bloodshot eyes
* Seizures
* Malnutrition sometimes leading to death
* Constipation
* Reduced metabolism
* Dehydration
* Eating disorders such as Bulimia Nervosa, Anorexia Nervosa among others
* Re-gain of body weight as soon as the diet plan is abandoned

Most people do not realize that successful weight loss is all about commitment and dedication towards exercise and strict diet regime. A healthy weight loss diet is one that consists of smaller meal portions, cutting down on calories wisely and ensuring adequate nutrition to the body too. It is also important to understand that weight loss is not just about dieting. A healthy weight loss diet plan should also include a regular exercise regime. Dieting sans an exercise regime will not give you desired results.

Unfortunately, people also tend to fall into the trap of so-called herbal diet pills without realizing that these pills do more harm to their body than good. Additionally, there is no proof about the fact that these pills are 100 percent safe. Most of the diet pills available on the market are unsafe and may result in serious damage to your heart and/or nervous system.

All kinds of diet plans such as Atkins type diets are unsafe for your body. These diets allow you all kinds of fats including butter cream and oil but restrict carbohydrates completely. This is really unhealthy because your body needs carbohydrates for energy.

A zero-carbs diet can result in serious health complications.




If you are serious about losing weight, then it is very important to understand that weight gain is not a process that results from eating a lot of carbs. It is due to unrestricted intake of calories during a day. Hence, restricting just carbohydrates in a diet won’t do any good to the body. It may lead to several health-related complications.

Overindulging in unhealthy fatty and fried stuff is the major cause that most people become over-weight. A healthy diet plan must consist of food that would offer you 1100-1400 calories (women) and 1400-2000 calories (man).

This will also depend on activity level of an individual. Safe diets are actually based on common sense. This also means that you need to stick to a diet that is well balanced and include lots of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, dairy products, meat etc.

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