There are so many diets out there or diet products that have you eat only one type of thing to loose weight. For example, if you eat specially formulated shakes, bars or cookies, you’ll lose weight. Is this true? Well probably. But, that doesn’t mean that you will be fitter, healthier or actually keep the weight off.
Back about 10 years ago, I inadvertently lost weight by eating mostly junk food. I was working practically around the clock on a big project and didn’t have time for regular meals. I made sure that I got some workouts in, but honestly at the end of the day or early the next morning, I was just too tired and unfocused to cook.
So usually, I would grab a piece of whatever my room mate at the time had prepared, such as low fat brownies for breakfast and dinner. Did I loose weight? Very rapidly, in fact. Of course that will happen when you only consume 800 or less calories a day.
But I would never promote this type of diet long term or even short term for a number of reasons. Beside the fact that you aren’t getting all of the nutrition that your body needs, no matter how “packed full of vitamins and fiber” a diet cookie happens to be, you never learn to eat like a real human. The moment that you have to make other food choices, you are up a creek. This type of diet encourages you to have your cookie and eat it too.
If you want to try out this kind of “one food” diet, and again, I am not a big fan of them, it is best to use it solely to get a jump start. You’ll lose weight which may give you some encouragement to keep going with a more sensible way of eating.
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