Guess What? Diets DO Work

That's right. Diets do work.

Now most fitness pros will tell you that diets don't work, but I'm here to tell you that they do.

Atkins, Zone, Ornish, Oprah's latest, you name it, they'll help you lose weight.

What they won't help you do is keep it off. For that, you need a healthy lifestyle and need to know how to eat right and exercise.

The reason the vast majority of people gain their weight back after going on a diet has nothing to do with the diet at all. It has to do with the fact that when they stop the diet, they go back to eating like crap.

That's why you gain the weight back.

If you eat like crap, go on a diet and lose weight, then go back to eating like crap, you'll gain the weight back and end up fatter than when you started.

If you learn to eat healthy and exercise as a lifestyle first, then diet to lose fat, and go back to your healthy eating lifestyle, you have a very good chance of not gaining the weight back.

Problem is, most people don't do that.

In my 12-week weight loss course, I spend the first NINE WEEKS getting people to learn how to eat right and exercise, before I introduce them to a shorter term program designed to melt off serious fat.

That's why people succeed with my method, and why Oprah has been losing the same 50 lbs over and over for the past 10 years.

Diets DO work, IF you already know the rules of eating right, exercising, and living a healthy lifestyle.

Diets DON'T work if you eat like crap and think going on a diet for a month will cure everything.

~Dave

Low-Carb Wins After All?

So this headline caught my attention the other day on the internet:

Study: Low-carb diet best for weight, cholesterol

"The Atkins diet may have proved itself after all: A low-carb diet and a Mediterranean-style regimen helped people lose more weight than a traditional low-fat diet in one of the longest and largest studies to compare the dueling weight-loss techniques."

Any of you who read my stuff or follow my Metabolism Makeover Course know that I advocate cutting out processed carbs and getting the majority of your carb intake from fruits and veggies, with limited servings of whole grains. That doesn't mean I'm an Atkins follower though. And unlike what the lead paragraph in the article implies, this study didn't prove Atkins is the way to go at all.

This study followed 322 moderately obese people for two years, and broke them into 3 groups. One followed a low-fat diet plan (Metabolism Makeover participants know what I think of that), one group followed a low-carb plan, and one group followed a Mediterranean style diet.

The low-fat diet — no more than 30 percent of calories from fat — restricted calories and cholesterol and focused on low-fat grains, vegetables and fruits as options. The Mediterranean diet had similar calorie, fat and cholesterol restrictions, emphasizing poultry, fish, olive oil and nuts.

The low-carb diet set limits for carbohydrates, but none for calories or fat. It urged dieters to choose vegetarian sources of fat and protein.

So what happened?

The dieters lost between 6.5 on the low-fat plan and 10 lbs on the low-carb and Mediterranean plans.

IN TWO YEARS!

That doesn't mean one diet is better than the other. In fact, it means that none of them are better than the others.

If you've got 322 moderately obese people dieting for two freakin years and the best they can do is lose 10 lbs, then your plan sucks. Plain and simple.

Research like this pisses me off because it sends the wrong message. Since it was funded by an Atkins advocacy group, you certainly won't see any of the researchers telling you the results sucked, but that's the reality of it.

Just by simply eating right and exercising properly, an otherwise healthy, moderately obese person can easily lose 10 lbs in a month or less.

And don't worry all you low-fat advocates, they'll be research next week that says low-fat is the way to go. Just wait.

Researchers need to get out of the lab and into the real world. I don't need idiots like this telling me what works and what doesn't, I see it every day. I can also see that what they did didn't work at all.

If you want to know what really works, go to www.HealthyWeightInnerCircle.com and read "The Ridiculously Simple Rules to Good Nutrition", or better yet, start following the Metabolism Makeover Course.

~Dave

14 Fat Loss Experts Share The Goods

Now, I know my fat loss techniques work, but I'm comfortable enough to say that there are other experts out there who have great techniques and programs that work just as well. None of us invented fat loss, we've just honed our own particular ways of attacking it.

If you're interested in seeing what types of tips, tricks, and programs are out there, I've got a great free resource you can check out. You see, I've been selected as one of a select group of fat loss experts and have been asked to contribute some of the fat loss techniques I use with my clients to the rest of the world.

The Free Fat Loss Tips website is where 13 other experts from Australia, The United States, Canada and The UK, join me on this new site.

The best part, of course, is each of us has decided to give up our great secrets for free and the site is now live!

http://www.freefatlosstips.com

You'll find some great information from myself, of course, and my Busy Woman's Fitness Solution, along with these 13 other leaders in the fat loss game:

• Daniel Munday, who specializes in short, intense workouts for busy people who usually don't have time to exercise. He is giving away the Aussie Fatblast Secrets Revealed audio and eBook special report.
  
  
• Ed Scow, the author of Fat Loss To Go, who is giving you 3 hot secret reports on the best ways for men and women to lose that body fat.
  
  
• Mike Grafstein, is a Youth Soccer expert who has some great interval fitness programs if you have any kids that play the world game.
  
  
• Caroline Radway, offers you her Perfect 10 tips to help you achieve your perfect fit for life.
  
  
• Stephen Cabral, a renowned media personality, who is offering The World?s Most Powerful Weight Loss Interval report.
  
  
• Dan Grant, magazine contributor and body transformation coach who will teach you his Degrees of Change system to accelerate your fat loss results.
  
  
• Dr Kareem Samhouri, ground breaking, year long, Lift Hard Play Hard program is one of the internet's premier online training solutions.
  
  
• Eddie Enriquez, who has created the MyTrainer.com website to allow users free access to some of the best fitness videos and audios on the planet. This is You Tube for fitness.
  
  
• John Fell, a Sydney based trainer to the stars who is offering you 3 months online training with access to mp3 workouts, education, and his sought after motivation and support methods.
  
  
• Ben Warstler, runs successful boot camps in small town Vermont and is sharing with you his 4 Secret Hot Spots for fast and effective fat loss.
  
  
• Susan Hill, a renowned personal trainer of the year winner, and author of the Bikini Butt Workout for all the women wanting to look their best in their swimsuit this summer. Susan will give you the best tips for picking the right swimsuit.
  
  
• Jeremy and Alissa Nelms, creators of the revolutionary Mid Year Resolutions Program which is a teleseminar series that addresses your fat loss, financial and relationship success. Jeremy interviews over 20 experts and you can gain access to this for free!
  
  
• BJ Gaddour, a successful real world fat loss expert who has a revolutionary online membership site with audio workout programs to maximise your fat burn. BJ is offering a free, downloadable, cardio workout.
  
  
• and me...:)
  

As you can see, it's a pretty comprehensive list of accomplished and successful Fat Loss Experts.

The site will only be up for a limited time though, so check it out now if you'd like to get inside their heads for free.

Once again, the place to get your freebies is www.freefatlosstips.com.

~Dave