Trends in fad diets that really help you lose weight

Fad diets, or those that are extremely popular for relatively short periods, come and go.

The diet based on cabbage soup, the Israeli army diet and the lemon detox diet are just a few that have caught the attention, albeit briefly, in recent years.

What may surprise you is that a number of these diets work, even in the long run, if they are followed properly.

Here is the most effective information on the most popular popular diets of the moment.

KETO

Ketogenic diets are not new. On the contrary, they have been used in medical settings to handle a range of clinical conditions for many years.

A keto approach requires that followers reduce their carbohydrate consumption to an extremely low level, so that acetosis, or fat burning, is induced when the body breaks down fat stores directly for use as fuel.

A keto approach requires that followers replace carbohydrates with lipids. Thus, in the whole diet, less than 10% of calories come from carbohydrates, 70 to 80% of lipids and 15 to 20% of proteins.

That's why you see a lot of avocado, butter, eggs and cream used in keto diets.

The reality is that most diets that claim to be "keto" contain only a few carbohydrates, instead of reaching these ratios of fat, protein and carbohydrates.

In real life, reaching these ratios in your diet is a bit difficult, but if you can and respect it, it will work very effectively.

Paleo

Unlike the keto approach, which imposes a strict restriction on carbohydrates, the Paleo diet includes fruits and some starchy vegetables, including sweet potato.

This translates into a reduction in carbohydrate intake, in contrast to the extremely low levels seen in keto diets.

This transfer of macronutrients sees that 20 to 30% of your total energy comes from carbohydrates.

The focus on fresh and unprocessed foods naturally promotes weight loss, as does the complete avoidance of processed carbohydrates.

The only disadvantage of this diet is usually a particularly low intake of calcium. Although fiber intake from vegetables and fruits may be sufficient, many adepts find that the lack of insoluble fiber intake from cereals and legumes can result in constipation.

VLCD

Very low calorie diets generally use meal replacements and shakes to achieve an extremely low calorie intake of only 800 calories a day.

This approach has been used for many years, in a clinical setting, to achieve weight loss.

Now, it is commonly used by weight loss surgeons before surgery.

VLCDs are extremely effective at reducing fat stores in the liver, while inducing ketosis because overall caloric and carbohydrate consumption is extremely restrictive.

VLCDs work extremely well, but the problem is that once they are stopped, most, if not all, weight tends to be taken over, unless the underlying eating habits are significantly altered in the long run .

5: 2

Fasting diets, or more precisely the fasting diet, requiring adherents to commit two days a week to consume very few calories (less than 500 calories), have been shown to be effective in promoting relatively slow weight loss (1 at 2 kg per month).

It seems that the significant limitation of calorie intake for brief periods presents a number of metabolic benefits to the body, which can in turn promote fat metabolism.

The biggest problem is that you will not lose weight as fast as many desire.

BAS CARB

The main difference between a low carb diet and a keto diet is the proportion of protein that the diet contains, low carb diets always requiring less than 10 to 20% of calories from carbohydrates.

This also leaves more room for dietary protein than keto strict diets.

Diets low in carbohydrate, or that require followers to virtually eliminate all bread, rice, cereals, pasta, fruit and starchy foods, are extremely effective at achieving fat metabolism, at least in the short term.

The problem for most people is that as soon as one of these high carbohydrate foods is reintroduced, the weight tends to pick up quickly and it becomes more and more difficult to lose in subsequent attempts.