He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. Chinese Proverb

The sad fact is, dieting isn‟t easy. You may have read about some of the fad diets and those wonder diets that are “guaranteed” help you lose 20 pounds practically overnight. But do these diets really work? Maybe yes, maybe no... The problem with most of these diets is that they can help you lose some weight short term, but you may find it hard to keep that weight off once you stop dieting, plus, most of them just aren‟t healthy. You might be able to drop a few pounds on the cabbage soup diet but is eating soup for a week really healthy? Many experts say that the only weight you lose is water and not fat. Plus, the soup‟s recipe has an extremely high sodium content.
There are also the Acai Berry Diet, the HCG Diet and diets built around low fats, low carbs, “zones” and even one called the Tapeworm Diet. 

The Healthy Solution

The truth is that the best solution isn‟t an exotic diet built around cabbage, grapefruit or zones. It‟s changing to a healthy diet consisting of nourishing foods that provide the proteins, fats and carbohydrates your body needs but that are in the right amounts so you will lose weight and keep it off. Did I say that you need proteins, fats and carbohydrates? I did because a good, healthy diet isn‟t one that totally deprives your body of protein, carbs or fats. Your body actually needs all three of these food groups. The reason people gain weight isn‟t because they ate foods containing fats or carbohydrates. It‟s because they ate too much of one or more of the groups – too many carbs or food with too many bad fats.