What is "Crash Dieting"?
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an attempt to lose a lot of weight quickly by strictly limiting how much you eat
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Honey losing weight isn't about a fad diet. No, it is about a lifestyle change. Not snacking all the time and getting some exercise. I know you want the quick answer but there isn't one. Gaining weight is a lot like putting money in the bank. Every time you eat you are making a deposit into your weight bank...get it. You naturally burn so many calories every day whether you exercise or not, we will call this a bankers fee. Now here is the most important part....evertime you exercise you are making a withdrawel. deposit - fee - withdrawel = what you weigh.\n\nYou have to love you for you and if you want to make chnges do it for yourself. Nobody is gonna do it for you.
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DO NOT LOSE HEART, EVERYONE SLIPS UP A BIT WHEN THEY ARE ON A DIET. I HAVE HAD MY HUSBAND ON ONE FOR TWO MONTHS, AND HE IS ALLOWED TO HAVE TREATS AT THE WEEKEND. OTHERWISE ITS TOO BORING. AND HE IS STILL LOSING WEIGHT. THE THING IS NOT TO OVER INDULGE ,YOU CAN EAT MORE OR LESS ANYTHING IN MODERATION. SO DO NOT BERATE YOURSELF TOO MUCH.
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The atkins diet is good for quick loss but not a long- term diet to do! At least that is what i think!
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That's way too much weight to lose in such a short time. Give yourself 12-14 weeks (minimum). Eat a healthy diet and exercise. The problem with trying to lose too much weight too fast is that you will end up losing lean body mass (muscle). Your muscle tissue is what keeps your metabolism up, so by going on a crash diet and losing it, you end up making yourself fatter in the long run. Stay healthy!
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Read the above answer, it's great advice. Crash dieters commonly rebound to an even higher weight than what they started with.
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It's call a sugar crash.  Your body is juiced up on the sugar from the food, raising your blood sugar through the roof.  When your blood sugar drops, you drop with it.  Best to avoid or limit sweets.
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If you are serious about loosing weight, follow these guidelines:\n1. Forget pills and fad diets. They don't work. Even if you loose weight with them you will just gain it back.\n2. Eat healthy, low fat, vegan meals of whole grains, beans, veges, and fruits. \n3. Don't eat dairy products, junk food, fast food, or snack foods. Don't eat anything that is sold in vending machines.\n4. Get lots of aerobic exercise. \n5. Focus on improving your overall health and fitness rather than loosing a particular number of pounds within a particular time frame. Make maintaining overall health and fitness a long term commitment rather than a crash weight loss program. \n6. Set measurable, realistic fitness goals using standard measures of aerobic fitness, such as the cooper test. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooper_test\n7. Educate yourself. Read "The Aerobics Program for Total Well-Being" by Kenneth Cooper to learn how to create an effective exercise program. Read the "The Mcdougall Program : 12 Days to Dynamic Health," by John Mcdougall to learn about healthy eating..
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We all are self conscious to some degree.  The key is not to obsess about things.  I think dieting is ok if done properly and for the right reasons.  A persons health and well being is important and a good diet is important to that.
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Well, i heard this on oprah.  If you trying to gain weight go on  diet for a little bit and then suddenly stop.  The shock will cause you body to pack on some extra pounds.
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The only correct way to lose weight is by carefully limiting your intake of a healthy balance of food and exercising to get in shape. Diet pills, cutting out entire categories of food (a la Atkins), crash dieting, binge eating... these are all bad ideas and will lead to eating disorders, major health issues and/or gaining all the weight back. It's been proven.\n\nGood luck with your project.
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when you say diet I am assuming you mean drinking/eating JUST smoothies or liquids of some sort. There is so much that is not right here I dont have enough space or time to type it. \n\nThe best advice I can give you is to read a book called * protein power* its written by 2 doctors and its one of the best nutrition/exercise/health books ive ever read. Its title is so much more than it says. It even has recipes.\n\nWhen people are trying to lose weight and get overall health , they need to understand why and how and where and what on a cellular level. It doesnt make much sense to keep doing diets when you arent understanding what is going on on the inside. \n\nThis book is written in clear understanding for the lay person.
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Did you suddenly get overweight? Be sensible...you gained slowly...so lose slowly...simply decrease your intake (or increase your exercise). Faddish diets fail as it seems great to lose a couple of quick pounds, but the end is a return to your heavier weight. Obviously your caloric intake has been too high for your activity, so decrease slowly...and the pounds will slide off...do it quickly and watch the old habits return with more weight. Diet Pills are nonsense...it is the eating habit...not a pill that will make a change.
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March 28, 2005 — Nutrition and fitness expert Jorge Cruise says in his newest book, "The 3-Hour Diet™: How Low-Carb Diets Make You Fat and Timing Makes You Thin," that it's not so much what you eat but when you eat that's important. The core idea behind "The 3-Hour Diet™" is that by timing your meals and snacks every day, you will reset your body's metabolism, and the pounds will come off. \n\nCruise's diet stresses plenty of fruits, vegetables and lean proteins but doesn't restrict your favorite foods, including carbs. The book includes a recipe guide with options for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks from a range of homemade, frozen and fast-food choices; a 28-day visual eating planner to promote organization and accountability in meal planning; and tips and advice from Jorge's clients on managing time and making meals on the go. \n\nYou can read an excerpt from "The 3-Hour Diet™" below: \n\n"Today, when I look in the mirror, I see a healthy, active person. My knees don't hurt like they did seven weeks ago. I really do feel healthier now. This is a big change for me — a change for the better. I want to enjoy my retirement. I thank Jorge for my success. I am now on the right path for an active lifestyle." \n— Dona Buth, Lost 20 Pounds \n\nMost of us pay close attention to the clock. We set an alarm to wake us in time for work. We strive to leave work by a particular time in order to beat rush-hour traffic. We structure our lives around the time we need to pick the kids up from day care, soccer practice, and play dates. \n\nYet too many of us seem to get out of sync when it comes to eating. Rather than having an eating schedule, many people tend to eat only when it occurs to them. They rush out the door in the morning, forgetting to eat breakfast or intentionally skipping it to save time and calories. They get swept up at work, and realize at two or three in the afternoon that they haven't eaten lunch — and for many people that is their first meal of the day. They complete errands and other tasks after work, only remembering to eat dinner when they are too hungry to stand it. \n\nWhen you eat is critical. As I mentioned in chapter 1, it's essential that you know that successfully losing weight and keeping it off is all about timing. Yet most people use bad timing by eating sporadically. You eat sporadically anytime you allow more than 3 hours to pass between meals. This causes the body to switch from a fat-burning mode to a fat-preservation mode. Instead of fat, the body burns muscle tissue and your metabolism plummets as a result. This leads to fat gain. \n\nSo to get thin, you need to create a consistent eating schedule. That's the secret way to lose weight and keep it off. What exactly does this mean? You may be wondering again, "Is it just about eating every 3 hours? Is that all there is?" The answer is no. Although this program is very simple, there's a little bit more. You see, the key is that it must become automatic for you. Your eating schedule must become effortless and easy. It's all about learning how to use my Visual Timing" formula. \n\nThe power of Visual Timing™ will free you from your past dieting failures. You will at last have an enjoyable and automatic way to eat everyday. Specifically, I promise that by following the 3-Hour Diet" you will lose up to 2 pounds a week from your belly first and bring back the joy of eating! \n\nThe Power of Visual Timing™ \nThe goal of Visual Timing™ is to make eating every 3 hours completely effortless and automatic. In this way, you will not only lose the weight, but keep it off long term. How will Visual Timing™ do this for you? Visual Timing™ involves two critical secrets.\n\nSecret 1: The 3-Hour Timeline™ \nThe first key is to learn when to eat. This involves learning when to start eating, how to keep going through the day, and when to st
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there is no such thing as dropping that much weight "quickly." (of course, it really depends on what you mean by "quickly.") not least because crash diets don't work. it is a known fact that crash dieting can throw your metabolism out of whack, and it makes it far more likely that you will gain it all back and then some. (dieting makes you fatter in the long run.) \n\nthe best choice is your good diet plus as much aerobic exercise as you can manage. what errands can you do by walking instead of driving? or what about biking? here's what i would do:\n\n1. walk or bike to work or school, if at all remotely possible. do errands by that method as well, even if it means you have to drive home, and THEN do the errand. \n\n2. any time you're watching tv, make a rule that says you have to be exercising in some fashion. \n\n3. do stairs. running up and down the stairs is a convenient way to get exercise. take the stairs anywhere you might otherwise take an elevator. \n\n4. eat three sensible meals every day. no snacks unless they're fruit or veggie. NO junk food at all. if you can stand it, drop all meat and dairy products. vegans are almost never fat. \n\n5. get at least 40 minutes of aerobic exercise Every Day. \n\ni know you asked about diet. but diet alone is not enough. the only way to lose weight and keep it off is to make your diet permanently healthy and to get enough exercise.\n\n---\nand to add: the suggestion of "try bulimia" (throwing up, taking laxatives) is horrifically irresponsible. not only is it addictive, it ruins your teeth, can cause serious stomach and esophagus problems, and DOESN'T WORK. bulimics mess up their ability to process food in healthy ways, which eventually, if they don't want to DIE, means they end up getting fat. it can lead to permanent, irreversible damage to your body.
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My wife did yo-yo dieting all through her teen years.\n\nAt 26 she was taken into hospital after a week of incredible pain and diagnosed with gall stones.\n\nThe doctors explained then that the cause was most likely to be yo-yo dieting.  I kid you not - even with very high levels of morphine she was still in agony.  Don't do it!\n\nSensible weight loss is 2lbs a week tops.\n\nAlso - if you starve yourself your body will then store future food as fat (as emergency stores) - therefore you are more likely to put on weight when you eat normally.
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quick fixes are not the way to go. can cause side affects. have to first of all be serious about losing. im on this eating and excercise plan and its doing the job. i am the lazyiest person for diets but im shedding the weight and feeling good