Many people use quick diets to take off a few pounds just before a big date, an important business meeting or meeting the parents of your future spouse. Generally they involve giving up everything but one of two food items and last 3-5 days. Many people refer to them as fad diets.
Though quick diets have picked up a bad reputation in the last few years-denoting everything that is subjective, there are good methods to take weight off quickly. A quick diet is a method of weight loss that gets results quickly. A fad diet is very often the same thing, just one that has become popular, usually due to celebrity use or promotion, or in the case of the Snicker Bar Diet you make the news because of the terrible shape you are in after losing 30 pounds eating nothing but candy bars. Well, yes, 30 pounds is great but surely it is not worth your health, the condition of your skin or your muddled mental state when you call it quits.
During the 70s, 80s and 90s it was the low fat diet that was the craze. We had the Scarsdale diet, the metabolism diet and grapefruit diet ranging from 3-7 days with foods ranging from grapefruit at every meal to combining certain foods to keep the metabolism in high gear.
We saw the Zone diet, the Lemonade diet, the South Beach diet (people still swear by it), the Adkins and the Tapeworm diet (what people will go through for weight loss) all rise to fame with thousands of people swearing by them.
Next it was the low carbohydrate diet because it was suddenly realized that starchy foods such as peas, carrots, baked potatoes, beans, rice, and bread packed a lot of calories. This is true but they are calories packed with vitamins, minerals and other essential nutrients the body cannot do without. They provide the body with energy and because their carbohydrates are complex they are the only food able to cross the brain barrier to feed our brain.
For a quick weight loss diet allow at least five days. Buy assorted fruits including tomatoes, cucumbers, a few bananas and an avocado. Get carrot, apple and orange juices with a few cans of V8. Add a bag of carrots, 1 head each: broccoli and cauliflower and a box of mushrooms. Devote to first and last of five days to all raw vegetables, the second and forth days to all fruits with some juices and the third day to all juice. You will have more energy than you will know what to do with and you will have dropped about 10 pounds without sacrificing your health.