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Does a 10 day diet convince women that losing weight is easy?

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Written by Tansy Davis

Friday, 28 March 2008

by TansyDavis

It's not uncommon for women to try a 10 day diet when initially looking to lose weight. In most of the diet books you'll find commercially available you'll see that they suggest a 10 day diet or a diet for a couple of weeks. Then they suggest you change you over to a longer term maintenance plan which you can stick to over the coming months.

This is where plans like the Dreambody System by Graham Foster and some other similar weight loss systems for longer term weight loss come to the forefront because they take the woman who's attempting to lose significant weight to the next level. There are of course several other popular systems and support groups which supply advice and ongoing help for the longer term. which encourage sustained weightloss and prevent yo-yo dieting two of which are Weight Watchers and the Jenny Craig system.

I often refer to this sort of advanced program as the second stage or second phase of weight loss which goes in a totally different direction to the 10 day weight loss programs which we find advertised everywhere. This type of program helps you create a plan that helps you makes permananent changes to your life syle which results in longer term weight loss. As this is designed to last much longer, the amount of weight loss will be about 2 pounds a week or so.

But if this is the long term way to go when it comes to weight loss why is it that 10 day dieting solutions and even some diets which promise results in less than a week are so popular. Well it's all to do with instant gratification we all like to find a easy and instant weight loss solution and that's the reason why 10 day diets are just so popular.

Look at it this way if we decide to try and lose weight the last thing we want reminding of is that we will be starving ourselves for days so the thought of long term diets is even less appealing.With some women all they really need is a quick fix which they can get from this type of 10 day diet.If all they looking for is a small weight loss to be able to look a million dollars at the prom reunion or on vacation. I believe this is the biggest reason these instant fix books are so popular amongst women trying to lose weight across the world.

I am happy to say that on the whole these 10 day diets actually work provided you have the self discipline to stick to them. On average a safe level of weight loss will be around 5 pounds a week.

But there is bad news as well, most people can only stick to this sort of control for a couple of weeks and in fact some of the more well knowns diets such as Atkins are actually quite dangerous to follow for a sustained period.

If you only want to lose a few pounds a simple diet could be the answer or you might even feel that you want to go through a more comprehensive detox. ( i must say that I am a little adverse to detoxing unless well supervised as people can over do things and become quite ill if not careful)

If you are obese or just looking to get in much better shape and lose more weight, then you'll be looking for a weight loss scheme that promotes longer term weight loss and will bring the need to make life-style changes. Then I am sorry to tell you the 10 day diet option or even for that matter a 2 week diet is not going to get you those sort of results you are looking for.

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