10 Reasons to Skip Falling for Fad Diets This New Year
Embrace Your Real
Julie Ledbetter
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🗓️ 9 January 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Are you feeling like you need to work off that "holiday weight gain"? Are you tempted to get into fad diets to lose weight quickly? I'm sorry to say this, but fad diets are not the solution. In fact, fad diets can have long-lasting effects on your health – and they aren't good!
To save you from getting into the fad diet trap, we are diving more into this topic in this episode of the Embrace Your Real podcast. I'm going to share ten reasons why it's important to avoid these kinds of diets at all costs!
What I discussed:
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Making extreme changes to your diet can be unhealthy because it can disrupt your body's natural balance of nutrients and may not provide all of the nutrients that your body needs to function properly.
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Fad diets typically require you to drastically cut your calories. Eating too few calories can be harmful to your metabolism because it can slow down your body's natural calorie-burning process.
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Many fad diets are not based on sound, scientific principles. They often make exaggerated or misleading claims about their effectiveness or the health benefits they offer.
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Fad diets are hard to stick to long-term. This most often leads you to weight cycling… where you lose a bunch of weight, gain it back, lose a bunch of weight, gain even more back, and so on.
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Fad diets can be expensive… Many of these diets require you to purchase special meal plans or supplements, which can be costly and at the same time, don't actually provide any additional health benefits.
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Some fad diets promote cutting out carbohydrates… which, if you are looking to change your body composition, this is NOT a smart move.
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Some fad diets promote cutting out fat… when in fact, fat can be SO helpful when trying to lose weight or build the body you want.
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Fad diets will take away from your happiness and prevent you from living your life to the fullest.
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Fad diets trigger unhealthy relationships with our bodies.
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Fad diets NEVER led me to building the body I wanted and probably won't lead you to building the body you want either.
Episode Links about Fueling your Body:
5 Dieting Truths You Need To Know: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../5-dieting.../id1498254607...
A Breakdown Of Macronutrients & Why You Need Them: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../a-breakdow.../id1498254607...
11 Ways Macro Counting Changed My Relationship With Food: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../11-ways.../id1498254607...
5 Steps To Begin Your Macro Counting Journey: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../5-steps-to.../id1498254607...
The 5 Macro Counting Approaches: Which Is Best For You: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../the-five.../id1498254607...
Food Scale: The Benefits, How To Choose + How To Use It: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../food-scale.../id1498254607…
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there beautiful human you're listening to Embrace your real with me Julie |
| 0:04.8 | Ledbetter a podcast where I empower you to just be you with each episode I dish you a |
| 0:10.3 | dose of real talk and actionable advice for building your confidence, honoring your body, |
| 0:15.2 | and unconditionally loving your authentic self. |
| 0:18.0 | Stay tuned if you're ready to embrace your real, let's get it, let's go. |
| 0:30.3 | Hello and welcome back to another episode on the Embrace your podcast. Today we're chatting all about fad diets. I feel like this is a topic that I need to discuss |
| 0:34.4 | every new year which is a bummer but it also gives me the opportunity to share with you why I am so |
| 0:40.3 | against fad diets and I don't want you to write this off if you're like I know |
| 0:44.2 | fat diets are bad hear me out because I think we can get so bought into these |
| 0:50.4 | lies especially with like the marketing nowadays, people are getting so |
| 0:54.4 | smart with marketing because they know that the majority of people know that a |
| 0:58.8 | fad diet is not good, they know that it's not healthy for them and yet they still are enticed |
| 1:04.5 | because the marketing is getting sneakier and sneakier year after year and I |
| 1:09.5 | just want you to know that there are so many health dangers when it comes to a |
| 1:15.6 | fat diet and I want to kind of break that down with you because I don't want you to |
| 1:18.9 | fall into that trap and I know that it can be something that we say oh oh my gosh, no, I would never go on a fad diet for like a month or two months or three months. I'm only going to do this. I'm going to try and lose the five to seven pounds or the ten pounds and then once I get to that place like in two or three weeks if I follow this |
| 1:35.0 | fad diet once I get to that place then I'll be able to go into a sustainable lifestyle |
| 1:40.0 | and girl that is a dangerous place to be, and I do not want you to fall into that trap this year. |
| 1:47.0 | And so that's why in today's episode I'm going to be outlining 10 reasons why I have to urge you to skip the fat diets at all costs in 2023. |
| 1:56.0 | Before we dive in though, I wanted to share this review. |
| 1:58.0 | It comes from Vickster 1972. |
| 2:00.0 | She gave a five-star review and said, totally relatable. Julie talks to you like a real friend. Her |
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