Why Some Diets Don't Work
Our bodies may very well be our temples, but we busy moms sometimes treat them more like theme park rides.yo-yo Pressed for time, we roll along, inhaling all the snack foods our kids like us to keep around. Then we soothe our stress, fatigue and overwork with—you've got it—additional fats and sugars. When we're ready to notice that we seem to have picked up a few extra pounds, we're horrified. So, we catch the latest diet wave—Atkins, Sugar Busters, The Zone, meridia diet pills, whatever—and hop the down track to slimness by eating cabbage soup or bunless burgers. When all is said and done and we resume our usual habits, we balloon back to our original weight—plus a few extra pounds for good measure.

Why, after working so hard to trim the fat, does it always come back and with such a vengeance?

Three words: Diets Don't Work.

MODERATION, NOT DEPRIVATION
"People get tired of the restriction that so many diets employ, so that after a while they go back to eating the foods they like," explains Keith Ayoob, Ed.D, director of nutrition at the Rose F. Kennedy Center at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. "If they had given a nod to moderation instead of deprivation they would have been much better off."

Fad diets, he says, are particularly insidious because most of them are low-nutrient, "quick fix" type scams, which encourage their followers to radically restrict their food intake—which will actually only help them to lose water weight, as opposed to fat. Water, unfortunately, is gained right back once the dieting period ends, giving dieters that frustrating yo-yo feeling. And any diet that drastically alters eating habits without teaching new ones, Ayoob says, won't give lasting results.

"When their diet is over, people go back to square one, because their attitudes about food are the same as when they were heavier. They haven't learned a new way to eat." diet pills