What is the one thing that all diets that work have in common? -
01-02-2009, 12:29 AM
No matter how you slice it - the one thing that all diets have that work - everything from Atkins to South Beach -- is calorie reduction. All these"diets"are just tricks to get you to eat less. Sure, the Atkins has a metabolic effect by lowering carb intake, but everyone I know who has tried Atkins has ALSO reduced their calories (even if they didn't do it consciously). They find themselves ordering the steak dinner at a restaurant and discarding the baked potato. Well, that jumbo backed potato has several hundred calories. If you eat your steak, green vegetable, and a soup, but skipped the potato - what have you done? Reduced calories!With all these juice diets and soup diets -- weight watchers -- and all the rest -- add them up! People doing these things are eating less!People! Eat less and eat right! That's the way to do it. Don't do Atkins or juice diets. Don't starve yourself. Take in 500 calories a day less than you burn, and you WILL lose weight.
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