Many women ask themselves “can I lose 10 pounds in three days.” If you try too hard to lose weight then you will not lose it. All you will do is set up high expectations of yourself that you cannot meet. When you don’t meet them you end up gorging on the wrong foods to help fill up your hunger and also to comfort yourself because you feel like a failure. This just makes an obesity problem even worse.

It is important to tell yourself that starving yourself will not help you to lose weight overnight. You need to forget about fad diets and figure out what it is that your body needs to survive and yet lose weight at the same time. Calorie deprivation diets don’t work because they only serve to frustrate you. You should also avoid fad diets that ban certain foods because it is only human nature to “want what we can’t have.”

For some people this means eating more protein and for some people it means banning meat however no matter how you do it you should not be losing more than two pounds a week. Lose more and you are guaranteed to gain it all back sooner or later. Most doctors use the two pounds a week demarcation as a healthy measure of weight loss as well.  Furthermore it can be harder to lose 10 pounds than you think if you do not top off your dieting attempts with a bit of exercise as well.

Losing weight always means making big lifestyle changes and change rarely happens overnight. Micromanaging your diet by counting every single calorie you take in also does not work. Trying too hard like this never worked for anybody.

Staying hungry all day does not keep you thin.  Starving yourself –

•             Keeps you tired

•             Keeps you uninspired

•             Slows down your metabolism

•             Stresses out your kidney

•             Affects your skin and makes you look haggard

Your body slows down its metabolism and to add to your woes – you may even gain weight as a result!

You should also never go hungry which is why diets that work often recommend that you eat five small meals a day or more. If you feel hungry you will be depressed all day and it is that state of desperation and frustration that can cause you to overeat later in the day.  Most of us use food as a reward and if we are denied that emotional reward we might overcompensate by eating too much at the end of the day.

If you think a fad diet is going to cure what ails you then all you have to do is type words like “diet lose 10 lbs” into the Google search engine online and you will get all kinds of suggestions as to how to lose weight fast. However you should also keep in mind that almost all fad diets are very bad for you and can make you quite ill.