Well if you did, then you know there is no easy way to lose weight! Well to be precise, there are ways you can lose weight fast, but there is only one way to lose weight and keeping the weight of. In the fallowing paragraphs we will take a look at some methods of losing weight, and it will be up to you to decide if there is such a thing as losing weight fast, or not.

Losing weight through diets!

Everyone, kids, teenagers, young adults, adults, everyone tries a diet at least ones in their lives, and why not? There are countless diets you can find on the internet, books, and other information sources, and most of them promise that you will lose weight fast. Well, let’s take a look at some different diets and see what we come up with, but before that let’s learn what a diet is.

When you go on a diet, fundamentally, you starve your body of food. (This does not necessary mean you stop eating, although in some diets you do, it basically means you decrease the amount of food you eat to an all-time low.) Why? By decreasing the amount of food you eat you hope to burn more calories (fat), therefore loosing weight faster, and at the beginning it works. However, after a wile your body adjust to the diet and it becomes harder and harder to lose weight, let alone lose weight fast.

Now that you know what a diet is, let’s take a look at some popular diets today, which according to users, let you lose weight fast.

• Scarsdale Diet- If you want to lose weight fast but you do not want to go hungry then this is the diet you are looking for. The Scarsdale Diet Plan does not demand you do weight, measure, or count anything. All you need to do is fallow a menu giving to you that consists of regular supermarket foods.
• Budget Friendly Scarlet Diet- Just like the name says this is a more economic version of the Scarlet Diet. This is possible because this version uses lower cost supermarket foods.
• Vegetarian Scarsdale Diet- If you are a vegetarian looking for a diet, or if you simply want to stop eating meat wile on a diet, then this is the diet for you. Like its predecessors, this diet uses ordinary supermarket foods.
• Lemonade Diet- Unlike the diets mentioned above, this diet only consist of dinking a concoction of lemon juice, rich maple syrup, cayenne pepper and water for about ten to fourteen days, and it usually requires you to eat or drink nothing the entire time you are on the diet. (This diet is also regarded as a cleanse method to rid your body of unnecessary toxins and waist. This is why you can not drink or eat anything during this period of time.)
• Three Day Diet- The users of this diet usually have to lose ten pounds or less. This diet consists of drinking four to eight glasses of water or diet soda daily, along with three strictly controlled meals for three days.
• Hollywood Diet- This diet is much like the lemonade diet, but instead of drinking a lemon concoction you drink the Hollywood Diet Juice for one or two days. This diet is also known as a detoxification drink and it is for individuals sexing to lose ten pound or less fast.
• Grapefruit Diet- This diet consists of drinking grapefruit juice in each meal and eating three strictly controlled meals. It can last anywhere between seven to twenty-one days.
• Cabbage Soup Diet- This diet last for seven days and you can eat as much as you want as long as you only eat mostly vegetables soups (made with cabbage and other vegetables), and small quantities of low-calorie vegetables, fruits, meat, and skin milk, which are necessary for protein.

The reason why you lose weight fast on most of this diets is because you lose a lot fluids, a pound or two of fat, a pound or two of muscle, but you mostly lose waste materials that was previously located on your digestive system. This is why recent studies on major diets show that you only lose ten pounds, and once the diet is finished you usually gain the pounds back. (Unless you completely change your previous eating habits)

Now that we have taken a look at diets lets take a look at another common method in which you can lose weight fast, but not that fast.

It is time to EXERCISE!!

Exercising plays a very important role when losing weight and keeping weigh off. Why? The reason why people gain weight in the first place is because too much calories (fat) are consumed and too little are used/wasted. When you exercise you get rid of stored energy (fat). However, for an exercise routine to work you need to burn more calories than you consume, so do you know which exercise is the best to lose weight? There are three major types of exercise, aerobic exercises, anaerobic exercises, and stretching exercises. Although all these exercises are good to lose weight the best exercise is…the one you do!! The reason behind this logic is because there may be different exercises to choose from, but if you do not do any of them, they are all useless. Therefore the best exercise is the one you do, so let’s take a closer look at these three types of exercises.

1. Aerobic exercises (cardio) are any type of activity that uses large group of muscles that are continuously moving in a rhythmic motion. Once you start moving with aerobic exercises the heart and lungs work harder and you sweat a lot. Some types of aerobic exercise include bicycling, dancing, skiing, skating, walking, jumping rope, running, stair climbing and swimming.
2. Anaerobic exercises are brief, intensive, and usually involve the training muscles. Some examples of anaerobic exercises are heavy weight-lifting, running, biking, jumping rope, hill climbing, interval training, and isometrics.
3. Stretching exercises lengthen the limbs allowing a person to be more flexible and more often than not target specific muscles at a time. Some stretching exercise include ballistic stretching, dynamic stretching, active stretching, relaxed stretching, static stretching, isometric stretching, and PNF stretching.

Now that we have taken a closer look at dieting and exercise, if you combine them together you can loose weight fast, right? Yes and no. You see, loosing weight is not so much as rigorously exercising and dieting. Loosing weight is about becoming accustomed to eating healthier foods, making better choices, and taking better care of not only your weight, but you in general. Therefore, if you really want to lose weight fast, and keep the weight off, there are three more things you can do, they are sleep at least seven hours and a half, avoid to much stress, and set realistic achievable goals for yourself, and we will take a look at why this things are important in losing weight and keeping it off.

1. Recent research has shown that people who do not sleep at least 7½ hours each day do not produce enough growth hormones and leptin protein, two important hormones/protein your body needs to lose weight effectively and permanently.
2. Stress causes the body to produce too much adrenaline, cortisol and insulin. This hormones increase you r appetite, which means you eat more than you are supposed to.
3. Setting realistic goals will help you maintain a positive attitude wile trying to lose weight, this way even if you have “slips” (which you are bound to have) in your dieting and exercise routines you will not feel too discourage and quit halfway.

Now that you have all the information on losing weight, what to you think? Is there such a thing as losing weight fast and actually keeping the weight off? Yes, no, maybe, it is up to you to decide. However, remember one thing, when losing weight takes effort, there is magical pill you can take and no short courts either. You must be determined and take things one step at a time, and eventually (if you do things constantly and right) you will not only lose weight but you will proudly say good bye and good riddance to those extra unhealthy pounds!

The first thing that crosses the mind of an individual trying to lose weight are the words diet and exercise, and why not? Whenever you type the words “lose weight” in the internet, the first thing that comes up in the search results are a list of diet plans that help you lose weight, accompanied with certain exercises to lose that unwanted body fat. Although diets help you lose weight, the real questions is the fallowing, are diet plans a permanent solution to weight loss? Well to find the answers we will discuss three things, popular diet plans, exercise, and adopting a healthy lifestyle.

Today’s most popular diet plans!

Before we take a look at today’s most popular diet plans, do you know what a diet is? When you star a diet you severely change the quantity of food you consume each day, in essence you are starving the body of food. You do this with the anticipation of burning more calories (fat) as you eat fewer calories. Every time you go on a diet you significantly alter your body, and if you stay on a diet for an extended period of time, your body ultimately adjust to the modifications and you lose less and less weight each time. Know that you know how a diet changes your body, let us take a quick view at some diet plans used today.

Two popular detoxification diets plans. The fallowing two diets are called detoxification diets because during the whole process you are under the diet plan you eat or drink nothing except the specific concoction drink of each diet. As a result you lose a lot of fluids; one/two pounds of muscle, a few pounds of fat, but you mostly lose waste materials in your digestive tracks.

• The Hollywood Diet consists of drinking the Hollywood Diet Juice for one or two days. During this diet plan you are not allowed to eat any type of food or drinks, except water and the Hollywood Diet Juice. At the end of the diet you will lose ten or more pounds.
• The Lemonade Diet consists of dinking a mixture of lemon juice mixed with rich maple syrup, cayenne pepper and water. During ten to fourteen days you are not allow to eat or drink anything except water, salt water, and one or two cups of natural herbal-tea with no caffeine or sugar/honey per day.

The fallowing three diet plans are completely different than the detoxification diets. During these diets you are allowed to eat three very restricted and controlled meals per day, except for the cabbage diet.

• The Grapefruit Diet consists of eating three strictly controlled meals per day and ingesting grapefruit juice with each meal. It can last somewhere between seven to twenty-one days.
• In the Cabbage Soup Diet you can eat as much soup as you want, but the soups must be made with cabbage and other vegetables. You are also allowed to eat very small quantities of low-calorie vegetables, fruits, meat, and skin milk, which will provide your body with proteins.
• The Three Day Diet consists of drinking four to eight glasses of water or diet soda daily, next to three strictly controlled meals for three days. (This diet works best if you to lose ten pounds or less.)
• During the Scarsdale Diet do not need to measure, or count anything. All you do is fallow a menu giving to you that consists of regular supermarket foods.
• The Vegetarian Scarsdale Diet is much like its predecessors except it is for vegetarians or for people who simply want to stop eating meat wile on a diet.
• The only rule on the Low Carb Diet is that you need to eat very little foods with bad carbohydrates, and instead eat foods rich in good carbohydrates (which also include proteins and good fats).

As you can see there are several diet plans you can choose from, and although some people claim they do work, is it possible to permanently lose weight? Well take a look at the fallowing data.

• A thirty year old research held in ten different countries showed that it only takes three weeks before fifty percent of the people on diets relapse to their old eating habits.
• Another research held on popular diets show that people only lost ten pounds on average! And fifty percent gain back all the weight they had lost and sometimes more!

Therefore the answer to the question is no, diet plans do not work! But before you blame the diet plans, take a look at the two pieces of information left.

Exercise, exercise, exercise!!

Can you tell me the best type of exercise you can do to lose weight? The answer quite simple and funny, because the best exercise to lose weight is the one you actually do!! Let me explain, there are three types of different exercises, aerobic exercises, anaerobic exercises and stretching exercises, however, if you do not to any type of exercise whatsoever they are all useless! Therefore it is important that you sit down, plan an exercise routine that is jut right for you, and stick to it, even if its jut two or three days a week. (When you start an exercise regime you must be realistic and recognize your limits, start slowly and when you adjust to the exercise regime you can pump it up.)

Let’s take a closer look at the three styles of exercise.

• Aerobic exercises use multi muscle groups at the same time, accelerate your heart and your breathing rate and make you sweat. Some aerobic exercises include biking, swimming, jogging, walking, and dancing.
• Anaerobic exercises are generally brief and are more intensive than aerobics, and they tend to focus on strengthening different muscles. Some examples of anaerobic exercises are weight-lifting and sprints.
• Stretching exercises are used to make limbs more flexible, therefore giving a person more flexibility. Some examples of stretching exercises are yoga, pilates, and tai chi.

Adopting a healthy lifestyle!

Resent research has shown that people who fallow the golden rule of sleep and have less stress in their lives, not only manage to lose weight easier but they actually have an easier time keeping the weight off. Why? The next two bullet points will explain.

• The golden rule of sleep is to sleep at least 7½ hours each nigh. When you do not fallow the golden rule your body produces to little hormones (Leptin and insulin) which help the body lose weight.
• When you have too much stress it has the opposite effect of the golden rule. This is because, when under constant stress, your body produces too much hormones (adrenaline, cortisol and insulin). These hormones make you hungry and cause you to eat more than you are supposed to or what you are supposed to.

Know that we have taken a close look at the diet plans, exercise, and a adopting a better lifestyle; do you think diet plans a permanent solution to weight loss? Well the answer is pretty obvious. Losing weight is not only about dieting and exercising, it’s also about adopting a better life style. It’s something that takes time, patience, and perseverance, because there is no easy way to lose weight. You constantly have to keep an eye on the types of food you eat, because eating healthy does not necessarily means you can no longer eat your favorite chocolate or ice-cream. It means you need to be careful of the amount and frequency you eat certain foods with. It means getting out of bed and taking a walk or taking the stairs instead of the elevator. Therefore, know that you have the knowledge; do you want to lose weight? It’s up you, so good luck!

The master cleanse diet/detoxification program, aka lemon cleanse and maple syrup diet, was created in 1941 by Stanley Borroughs and made famous/popular by Peter Glickman. The master cleanse is know both as a crash diet and a detoxification program. (Although there is no scientific back up stating that this is in fact anything but an extreme diet.) This program has three phases, ease-in, the lemonade diet, and ease-out. Each stage needs to be fallow carefully. However, before we go on discussing the lemonade diet lets discuss the difference between a diet and a detoxification program.

1. When you go on a diet you drastically change the amount of food you eat each day, essentially you are starving the body of food. You do this with the hope that you will burn more fat (calories) by consuming less calories. Whenever you go on a diet you drastically change your body, and if you manage to stay on a diet for a long period of time, your body eventually adjust to the change and the longer you stay on the diet the harder it becomes for you to lose weight.
2. On the other hand, a detoxification program is meant to remove potentially danger substances from your body. When you detoxify you r body with the master cleanse mostly lose waste material located in your digestive system, along with some fat, muscle, and lots of fluid.

Now that you know the difference between a diet and a detoxification program, can you tell me which is not only good to lose weight, but actually get rid of it for good? Well, if you chose any of the options above you are mistaken because the answer is neither. You see, it is scientifically proven that diets do not work! Why? In average only fifty percent of individuals that start a diet usually end it within three weeks of the start date, three weeks before they go back to there old eating habits! And once the diet is over they not only gain back the weight they lose, they also gain a few pounds extra!

A detoxification works pretty much the same way. Why? Detoxifications are extremely strict and you must have a willpower made out of steel to successfully complete one! Some detoxification diets last two, maybe three days, but in order for the master cleanse to properly work you must maintain the program for at least ten days, without eating or drinking nothing except, tea, salt water and the lemon concoction. Unless you change your eating habits ones the detoxification program is over you will gain all the weight back, along with a few extra pounds.

Do you understand why neither dieting nor detoxification programs are efficient methods to permanently lose weight? If you are understand, congratulations! Although none of this methods work to permanently lose weight, the master cleanse may be a good idea to do if you are planning to change your lifestyle afterwards, otherwise don’t even go to all the effort.

Taking a closer look at the Master Cleanse

Step 1- Easing-in to the master cleanse

The ease-in step of the master cleanse is a pre-diet routine that prepares your body and mind to what it is to come. This is step can be done in three days. During these three days you are to drink a lot of liquids. (During this time it is a good idea to drink a lot of vegetable and fruit juices) You should also eat smaller portions of food, until eventually you start the master diet. You should also take this time to prepare all the ingredients for the master cleanse.

- Lemons/lemon juice
- Rich maple syrup
- Cayenne pepper
-Laxatives (this will be used to create bowel movements)
-Sea salt
-Natural herbal-tea with no caffeine

Although the ease-in process is not very important and it can be skipped, it is recommended that you do it.

Step 2- The lemonade diet

The fist thing you do when you wake up on that first day is either drink a cup of salt water or a laxatives, this will create bowel movements and flush out waist located in you intestines. Ones the bowel movements finish (it will usually take five to seven trips to bathroom, sometimes more) prepare you first batch of lemon juice concoction and drink it. (Mix the lemon juice with the maple syrup and cayenne pepper. It is best to drink your “lemonade” fresh each time.) It is recommended that you drink at least six to twelve glasses of “lemonade” each day, and every time you fell hungry drink a lot of water so your stomach can have the sensation of being full. (The amount of “lemonade” you drink varies depending on your needs, if you are felling very tired or weak you must drink a glass of “lemonade”)

Since you will not be eating any type of food during this process you will need to take the laxatives and/or sea salt water twice a day, ones in the morning and once in the night. (Make sure to adjust them to your schedule so you will have plenty of time to use the bathroom) The only other drink you can drink besides “lemonade” and water is decaf natural herbal tea, with no sugar and only once or twice a day.

The first two/three days are the hardest to accomplish and it is natural if you get headaches, or flu-like symptoms. However this symptoms should not last more than a week, if they do it is recommended to stop the master cleanse and consult your doctor. The master cleanse should go on for at least ten to fourteen days, however, you can go as long as your like as long as you do not overdue it.

Step 3- Easing out of the master cleanse.

This is the last step of the master cleanse. During this process you are not longer require to drink the “lemonade” but it is very important not to eat solid foods right after you finish the master cleanse. Once you finish the master cleanse you need to slowly reintroduce food into your system, start with some juices, soups, and broths. Eat small amounts at different intervals, and after three/four days you can start eating normal solid foods again.

As you can see the master cleanse is not so much a diet but a process to detoxify your body of toxins found mostly in your intestines caused by years of neglect. Alto of people who have done the master cleanse claim to fell more energized and healthy after the whole process is over. However, if you are not planning to change your lifestyle afterwards, then all the pounds you lost will return, and most likely then not they will be accompanied by a few extra friends.

As you can see from all the information sated in this article (and in many others), there is more than enough information supporting the fact that neither diets nor the master cleanse are efficient methods to permanently lose weight. Therefore, what can you do to efficiently and permanently lose weight? The answer is rather simple and is mentioned various times through out the article. Losing weight is not so much about dieting or detoxifying your body, losing weight is about adapting a better lifestyle, which includes taking care of your health in general, eat appropriates foods, sleeping at least 7½ hours each day, reduce your levels of stress, and maintained a constant exercise routing. (Research has shown that people who sleep seven to nine hours each night and have low levels of stress are able to lose weight easier, faster, and keep the weight of, than does that don’t)

Unfortunately there is no easy way to lose weight, and although the master cleanse is a good jump start to losing weight, the only way to permanently lose weight is to adopt a healthy life style.

So GOOD LUCK!