About Rapid Weight Loss
The fantastic miracle weight loss system that can make you lose 10 pounds in 10 days no matter what you eat! Eat whatever you want, eat more than you want, eat double what you want, and still lose weight without working out! Drop one pant size in a day, but beware because this might work so well you’ll pop out of reality! If these advertising claims are true then rapid weight loss is a miracle reality of the modern world, requiring no effort on the dieter’s part.
Hogwash! But even though they mostly aren’t true, Americans spend over 40 billion dollars a year on rapid weight loss pills, programs and products that simply don’t work. That doesn’t stop people from coming up with all sorts of crazy diets and weight loss products. Failure doesn’t stop new diets from springing up out of the wood work, or people from trying them. Remember Joe Frazier’s diet, chew the food but spit it out? He said it made him full and gave him all the nutrients without the fat. See, mimes had the secret to weight loss all the time. Then there are the magic pills, creams, and diet supplements that guarantee to burn pounds without exercise, guaranteed. No that wasn’t a typo, they use the word guarantee so often it starts to lose meaning. And when they don’t mention precisely the details of the “guarantee” it doesn’t have any meaning. Then we have the pills, creams, drinks and formulas that miraculously remove weight.
Studies show that Very Low Calorie Diets, or VLCDs, work. People heard this and now try them at home. That’s a problem because of their nature. VLCD’s are extreme diets designed for seriously overweight people. These diets often have people eat half or less of their daily caloric intake. They’re designed to be implemented in medically supervised closed settings, where people can’t cheat. When used outside of a closed setting, often a clinic called a “fat farm,” these diets can be dangerous to the dieters health and will generally not work because of binge eating after a period of partial starvation.
Rapid weight loss program, if it works, creates a number of problems with the body. Gallstones, dehydration, malnutrition and even protein poisoning can develop as a result of the severe caloric starvation involved in VLCDs.
Professionals should be involved during any process of rapid weight loss.