How do fad diets work?
Most fad diets work by changing the way you eat so drastically that you lose your appetite. For example, some diets contain a lot of one food like watermelon or banana. Other diets contain primarily two foods such as the wine and fowl diet. There are diets that cause rapid weight loss by having no carbohydrates or sugars in your diet. The rapid weight loss is however primarily due to fluid loss because ketone bodies are formed in the blood which carry fluid out of your body. Other fad diets include starvation diets (magic which can be believed short-term) or diets that make it easier for you to stick to them in the short-term by requiring the purchase of expensive pre-mixed foods. The bottom line is that these diets have either dangers associated with them or cannot be adopted in your lifestyle long-term, in other words, fad diets don’t work. And whereas about 85% of people lose weight on almost any diet, only about 15% of people keep it off at 2 years and 1 or 2% at 10 years.
