Why fad diets fail, and what you should do instead

Did you know that this is the number 1 complaint i hear in my clinic? 

However, weight loss and maintaining a healthy weight is actually easy! Working with the root cause of your problems, learning how to listen to your body and interpret it's message are key starting points to help you transition to a healthy body and balanced lifestyle. 

What science and experience has taught me is that weight loss and optimal health is a lifestyle, which is why quick fix fad diets always fail long term. These are nutrient depleted and imbalanced, stress the body and dysregulate your metabolism and let's face it... they don't address the root cause of why you are overweight and unhealthy to begin with. More specifically fad diets while they can promote some fat loss (starvation often does that, to a point though) they can also lead to loss of bone, muscle and organ tissue (think heart and lungs) which you need for good health.... right? 

Once you return to your previous eating routine (because you still haven't addressed the root cause) your metabolism is now even slower causing you to regain all the weight you have lost and then some more. Sounds familiar? Did you regain even more at the end of every diet you have attempted? 

Further, under eating and over exercising (which often these diets recommend) significantly stresses the body and you can end up with multiple nutrient deficiencies in as little as 4 weeks, imbalanced hormones and gut issues which can take months to correct under professional supervision. 

Fad diets can also lead to activating starvation mode anywhere from 10-20 days, which is a problem because 80% of us still carry thrifty genes.

These are the same genes that allowed our ancestors, hunters and gathers to survive the famine periods that often followed feasting. Storing the most amount of fat meant survival and these genes when stressed (aka the body is not getting the nutrients and rest it needs) get activated and will help you "survive" your self induced famine and stress by getting you fat. Not the outcome you were after i am sure!

For lasting results and to learn how to run your health independently you must look inside and be willing to change those things that didn’t and don’t work for you. Doing the same thing and expecting different results it is after all the definition of madness. 

Having support during this time is key to help you transition to a better and healthier version of yourself… and that’s why I am here and have created OPTIMISE ME a 10 week personalised weight loss program aimed to teach you how to manage your health and shed 10 kg with ease. As i said weight loss is easy once armed with the right information.