When you take a good, long look at the various types of diets for weight loss that have come and gone over the years, it’s amazing just how similar the weight loss industry is to the fashion world. Just as trends come and go in fashion, so too do they come and go in weight loss.
When you think about it, the various types of diets – like Low Carb diets for example, are much the same as major fashion trends, and the individual diets themselves – such as the Atkins Diet for example, are like the fashion labels that ride the trends. Sometimes these diets actually set the trends!
In the 1970s, Low Fat Diet Plans were all the rage (disco diets?). Then Low Carb Diet Plans took over. High Protein Diet Plans have had their time, as have Low GI Diets – and the list goes on. And of course, some have been more popular than others.
Occasionally a particular type of diet has become popular because it represented the latest knowledge of the time . . . which is great. But all too often that hasn’t been the case. Diets for weight loss have frequently been made flavor of the month through marketing and hype, rather than by having real substance. The result of this is that over time people become more and more confused, frustrated and powerless when it comes to losing weight.
These days our understanding of nutrition and weight loss is very good. But of course it will continue to improve in the future, as it always has done. And as science makes it’s consistent, small advances, just as it always has, a large section of the weight loss industry will continue to come up with more wild claims about newly-discovered, miraculous diets for weight loss that just don’t work – just as they always have.
We have to do our best to avoid being distracted and side-tracked by all this nonsense, and stay on the path that we know will get us to our destination.
I’ve been a victim myself of many of the diet fads over the years, through my own weight loss struggles. I learned by experience how frustrating, and what a waste of time and energy following the fashion can be.
So if you can relate to this problem as well, don’t worry, you’re not alone.
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