But, most of the time these short 3 day diet Courses are fraud and may even result in gaining more weight in future. Here is why and how you can keep away from them.

Short 3 day diet courses are separated into two major groups: extremely low calorie diet and 3 day detox diet. Both of this Diets causes a massive weight loss as both of the plans provide very low calories. Lets examine both of these diet plans and see what each of them does and what is to be aware of.

In first group of detox diets you are mostly asked to eat 3 meals per day which contains high amount of protein (some times containing tuna) and low amount of carbs. These diet plans asks you to eat for 3 straight days and stop eating for few days (for four to five days) and eat for another 3 more days and you can follow this cycle indefinitely. These diet courses also claim that they can help you in maintain a high metabolism but these are mere low-calories diets in disguise.

Since the calorie deprivation in these diets is so high the most of the people who use these diet plans eat extra in those four or five rest days and they put extra weight again, weight that they lost with the help of these diet plans and disturb their metabolism completely. This is why I never recommend using this type of diets.

The 2nd major group of short 3 days diet courses, 3 days detox diet is completely different matter. Even though these are low calories diets, they are usually made from fruits . These diets helps cleansing your body of toxins and built up undesired undigested waste and there for provide extra benefits than just weight loss. Don’t get me wrong, these diets plans do provide weight loss, a lot of it. Actually it’s even feasible to reduce up to 10 pounds weight in just 3 days with the help of good 3 day detox diet plan.

What I want to tell you is it is highly non-recommended to follow detox diets for a continuous long time. A week is enough with a rest of 2-3 months in between.

Short 3 days diet plans are good to start thinking about losing your weight but you also need to make sure that from now on you follow a good healthy lifestyle during the whole year and I assure that you will look fit, trim and feel healthy.

A VLCD diet is planned in such a way that the dieter consumes not more than 800 calories per day as opposed to the daily human need of 2200 calories per day. Because of its rigorous nature this diet should never be undertaken for more than 3 to 6 months.

Being on this diet for long durations can have drastic health implications. Pregnant women and youngsters below the age of twenty including children should particularly stay away from this diet. It aims at shedding 5 to 6 pound per day. The final goal is to lose alomost 50 pounds in the very short duration of 12 weeks.

This diet is specially designed by physicians for people whose Body Mass Index exceeds 30. It is designed keeping in mind the dieters pre existing health conditions if any, the amount of weight to be lost and the impact of this sudden weight loss on the dieters body.

The normal procedure in this diet is to avoid normal dietary products and replace them with nutritional supplements which give the body its daily requirement of vitamins and minerals. Regular and dilligent physical activity is also a part of this regimen. Apart from this most doctors will recommend psychological interventions such as Cognitive behavioral therapy and self image improvement.

The body usually takes some time to get used to this new diet. Most dieters complain of fatigue, a feeling of weakness, persistent constipation, nausea and diarrhea in the initial stages of the diet. In severe cases the rapid weight loss may also result in the fomation of gallstones.

A condition which should be monitored closely.
However if you are just looking at losing a few pounds you can go for the low calorie diet. This diet restricts the intake of certain high calorie foods. It aims at bringing down the daily calorie consumption to between 1500 and 1800. If coupled with daily exercise it can give visible results in a few weeks with practically no side effects.

Low Calorie diet is always prescribed for people who have problems like obesity and overweight. The people who have Body Mass Index more 30 tend to follow this type of diet. Pregnant women, children and adolescents are advised not to take this diet. The patient undergoing this type of diet loses 50 pounds in 12 weeks or 3-5 pounds per week. The particulars of the diet varies from one person to another. So the consultation of physician comes handy in this case. Normal foods are replaced by prescribed foods. Overall strategy of this diet is discussed with the physician. Physical activity and behavioral therapy are parts of this diet.

There are many side effects like constipation, nausea, diarrhea and fatigue may be experienced in this diet. Gallstones will be resulted due to rapid weight loss. But these side effects will be unstable.

MEDITERRANEAN DIET:

The area from western Spain to the Middle East is called Mediterranean region. Mediterranean diet suits the people of that area. These people enjoy this type of cuisine. Many people follow this diet because of its minimum number of restrictions so that they can have all type of foods. But only disadvantage for the people is that large amount food is not prescribed which is different from there routine. This diet of diet help those people to choose low fat diet and low calorie diet instead of unhealthy ones. Long term health improvement is the objective of Mediterranean diet.

SOUTH BEACH DIET:

The primary aim south beach diet is too reduce 8-13 pounds in first two weeks. Highly rich carbohydrate food like baked goods, bread, grains and rice are avoided in this diet. This south beach diet is divided into three where some restricted food is used for testing. Low fat foods are included except cheese, milk and yogurt. Physical activity is not included in this diet.

A VLCD diet is planned in such a way that the dieter consumes not more than 800 calories per day as opposed to the daily human need of 2200 calories per day. Because of its rigorous nature this diet should never be undertaken for more than 3 to 6 months. Being on this diet for long durations can have drastic health implications. Pregnant women and youngsters below the age of twenty including children should particularly stay away from this diet. It aims at shedding 5 to 6 pound per day. The final goal is to loose almost 50 pounds in the very short duration of 12 weeks.

This diet is specially designed by physicians for people whose Body Mass Index exceeds 30. It is designed keeping in mind the dieters pre existing health conditions if any, the amount of weight to be lost and the impact of this sudden wight loss on the dieters body. The normal procedure in this diet is to avoid normal dietary products and replace them with nutritional supplements which give the body its daily requirement of vitamins and minerals. Regular and delligent physical activity is also a part of this regimen. Apart from this most doctors will recommend psychological interventions such as Cognitive behavioral therapy and self image improvement.

The body usually takes some time to get used to this new diet. Most dieters complain of fatigue, a feeling of weakness, persistent constipation, nausea and diarrhea in the initial stages of the diet. In severe cases the rapid weight loss may also result in the fomation of gallstones. A condition which should be monitored closely.

However if you are just looking at loosing a few pounds you can go for the low calorie diet. This diet restricts the intake of certain high calorie foods. Its aims at bringing down the daily calorie consumption to between 1500 and 1800. If coupled with daily exercise it can give visible results in a few weeks with practically no side effects.