Dieting Delilah - I help diet

I know that this topic would have fitted the Halloween season that is dark and mysterious, which is already over, (Christmas season is starting) better, however, I will still uncover some mysterious diet myths for you that I recently came across.

 

It seems everybody is talking about dieting at the moment and this is also why not only truths but also rumors are spread. Here are the top 3 diet myths I have discovered and analyzed for you.

 

1. Crash diets make you lose weight fast an easy:

You think this is true - think again! Of course this is true for the short time - this is also why I have written about crash diets like the cabbage soup diet on my site. If you have to fit into that dress again in two weeks you might consider a diet like that, but if you are looking for true long-term weight loss only a balanced diet will do. Researchers even claim that such crash diets can even hinder weight loss in the long run as they reduce the amount of muscles in your body ergo reduce the amount of calories your body needs every day. So if you eat the same as before after a weight diet you will actually gain weight. Oh my gosh, you better think twice before going for a diet like that.

 

2. If you eat food late at night this will make you gain weight quicker

There are lots of diets that say that eating in the evening is bad for you as your body will store more fat. It sounds logical - during the night you don't move too much and so you will burn less calories! Studies found this not to be true. They had volunteers eat a big lunch and a small dinner over some time and then a small lunch and a big dinner for a similar period and found out that the bodies of the volunteers didn't store more fat when eating more in the evening. However, regular meals are important. If you eat nothing during the day and a big dinner in the evening this will cause you to gain weight quicker than if you eat small meals over the whole day.

 

3. Eat low-fat foods and you will lose weight

The racks of the supermarkets are full of all those low fat products nowadays. If they are produced in such a great number there must be something about them, right? Wrong! Low-fat or fat-free in many cases doesn't equal low calorie or calorie-free. If you take a careful look at the labels you will find out that often low-fat products have only a very small amount of calories less to the normal products. This is because often extra sugars and thickeners are added to the food to enhance flavour. calorie content may be only a bit less, or similar to standard products. Many people who use low-fat products use double the quantity of the normal product, because they think as they are eating something healthy they can eat more of it. So watch out for calories not fat!

 

These are just three popular myths, but there are so many more. I hope you could learn something from me today.

 

Yours,

DietingDelilah