Should you count calories or count macros?
Or cut fat and carbs?
Or eat double the recommended amount of protein?
When it comes to weight loss, there’s plenty of advice on the internet. Magazines, books and websites promise that you
can lose all the weight you want for good. To do this, they suggest that you use diets that get rid of fat or carbs or use superfoods or special supplements.
Some diets aim to curb your appetite to reduce your food intake, while others suggest restricting your intake of calories and either carbs or fat.
Some focus more on certain eating patterns and lifestyle changes, rather than on limiting certain foods.
But this will not necessarily work for you.
Different diets will be more suitable and sustainable for different people.
So with so many options, how do you know which approach might work for you?
Before choosing a health or weight loss approach, it’s important to do some self-evaluation by asking yourself some questions
What can you live in the long term?
Would the diet guidelines make you happy? Anxious? Stressed? Are you able to follow them long-term?
If the diet is a quick fix rather than one that promotes lasting lifestyle changes, this could pose a problem.
In particular, extreme diets that promise big weight loss up front aren’t always sustainable and you may end up overeating or even binge eating if you feel deprived.
If you want to improve your diet, your best bet is to adopt healthy habits that you won’t mind keeping up over the long term.
Every diet has its pros and cons so you have to figure out which is going to be best suited to your routine and activities.
For example, if a person is highly active, and endures quite a lot of physical exertion like in the case of athletes, then there is no point in prescribing them a keto diet where they will be deprived of carbohydrates.
Carbohydrates here are the main source of energy, especially for the athlete. They deplete their glycogen stores very quickly. So they need to be replenished frequently.
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