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Posted on Jan 16th 2007 9:29PM by Martha EdwardsFiled Under: Diet & Weight Loss
Losing weight is hard enough without all these profit-hungry people and organizations using flashy ads and promising-yet-unrealistic statements to get your attention and get you spending money on their weight loss products. They're called diet traps, and they might be the reason you're still not shedding any pounds.
Here are the top 5 diet traps, courtesy of WebMD. The bottom line? If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Unless you're working out 10 hours a day or have an extremely high metabolism, it's pretty much impossible that you can eat anything you want and still lose weight. Promising that you can is a trap. That fad diet? It might have worked for someone you know, but that doesn't mean it will work for you. Trap! Extremely low-cal diets? Unhealthy -- it's a trap. You'll lose X lbs in Y days? It's a trap -- the weight you lose will most likely be water loss.
Have you fallen for any of these traps?
Here are the top 5 diet traps, courtesy of WebMD. The bottom line? If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Unless you're working out 10 hours a day or have an extremely high metabolism, it's pretty much impossible that you can eat anything you want and still lose weight. Promising that you can is a trap. That fad diet? It might have worked for someone you know, but that doesn't mean it will work for you. Trap! Extremely low-cal diets? Unhealthy -- it's a trap. You'll lose X lbs in Y days? It's a trap -- the weight you lose will most likely be water loss.
Have you fallen for any of these traps?
