Fact!

Here is an important fact about weight loss:

Fact:

The thing which has the biggest effect on your weight loss is your nutrition.

And what you need to understand is that most of the "Diets" on the market today actually aren't nutritionally good for your body and may even hurt your long term weight loss goals.

If you follow any of what I call the Low-something diets, which is basically any diet which tells you to drastically cut down on 1 or more nutrients like carbs, fat, or protein, you will experience 2 things:

1. A reduction in lean muscle tissue.

2. A lower metabolism rate.

Put these two effects together and you're on the fast track to making yourself fatter.

Without going scientific on you, what you're basically doing is taking your body off its natural balance, disturbing the basic hormonal processes which are going on inside of you, and kissing your long term weight loss efforts goodbye.

The right diet for long term and continuous weight loss is to follow a balanced diet which contains a healthy amount of all the major food groups (carbs, fat, and protein or 40/30/30--40%carbs, 30%protein, 30%fat). The trick is to get these nutrients from healthy natural sources. This will ensure that each nutrient is of high quality and provides your body with the perfect conditions to lose weight and build lean muscle tissue quickly and effectively.

So to sum things up,

Don't go for any Low-Something or any other deprivation diet. That's just setting you up for a fall.