Dieting for Weight Loss

I hate fad diets and I personally think they are detrimental to a person's attempts at weight loss because of the constant disappointment, which puts a person at higher risk of getting worse.  These companies prey on people's insecurities and make millions, while they're customers are left in the same condition after spending hundreds or thousands on their fads.

• Fad diets are not long term, if you want to be successful with losing weight, you have to have long term thinking.  It's not a race, but a journey to a healthier lifestyle
• They usually involve one product that is supposed to be the secret ingredient to weight loss.  There's no such thing, the healthiest people consume a balanced healthy diet with ample exercise
• They're usually quite expensive and the person selling you the product are knowledgeable in selling and not health and wellness
• Weight loss takes time, by jumping on these bandwagons, you're usually looking for a quick solution.  There is no quick solution, being healthy and fit takes discipline and hard work.
• Fad diets are usually not sustainable either due to cost or you just get sick of it.  How many cannisters of this junk do you think you can consume before your body rejects it?

If you want to lose weight, consult your doctor, a personal trainer or a nutritionist, and all three if you can.  It always helps to have somebody push and support your weight loss goals.  These people can arm you with knowledge and help you lose weight the safe and sustainable way and teach you how to keep it off.  Don't take the shortcut rout with fad diets because you'll just end up running in a circle.

Paleolithic Lifestyle Diet aka Caveman Diet

I know this diet sounds unappealing, but after it was featured on Dateline, it piqued my interest.  I'm not a big fan of fad diets, but this one is different, I like to compare it to the raw food diet and a vegetarian diet.  It's not really a diet, it's a lifestyle choice.  Not only is it healthy, but it's feasible and probably more economic then your regular grocery list.

The gyst of this is to eat like the caveman, foods that were readily available to them during the Paelolithic era and this food is still available today.  So foods such that include proteins such as beef, fish, shellfish, poultry, pork, lamb, bison, venison including their internals and fats, as well as eggs, vegetables, fruits and nuts.  From my perspective you should able to achieve a well balanced diet with all these choices.

Unfortunately, since the agricultural revolution, our society has become addicted to processed carbohydrates.  Probably because of the taste and the low cost of these staples.  Nowadays, our society is addicted to convenience and so it just compounds the amount of processed foods we eat. 

I don't like to recommend diets, but I do like to recommend lifestyle changes and good habits.  I would consider eating more natural as opposed to processed foods, a good habit.  I think that will be my next challenge to myself, to live a week off of these Paleo food choices, so stay tuned for that. 

I'll leave you to ponder this question....What can you do to challenge and change your lifestyle for the better?