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a diet that ACTUALY works

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Lifer
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Like some people said, don't starve.
Even if it's tail, eat a banana/apple or a bowl of healthy cereal/health bar or a no-dressing salad or a ham/chicken sandwich. Drink un-sweeten/jasmine/earl grey tea.
You don't need to skip meals, just eat something light.

Exactly. Diets that force extreme measures for a quick-loss goal are not healthy. Your body has little time to actually adjust to a change in the basic nutritional differences in the new diet, because it's too busy trying to fight itself to keep everything running fine. At least, that's one way to describe it.

Essentially, a slower and steady diet is far better. You'll feel better throughout the entire time, and if it's a big change toward a more total nutritional package, you'll feel better than before, at least, once the body has truly become adjusted to the change in nutrition.

How the body breaks down different nutritional compounds doesn't really change, but the body will adapt to different nutrition in key ways. One, a more managed approach to carbohydrate consumption will alter the patterns of insulin activity and how much glucose is available. You want to limit excess available glucose, so you want to sort of limit intake based on activity level. The brain needs glucose, so when you will be needing the most mental clarity is a time to consume complex carbohydrates. It's a slower and more steady glucose release, which is a proper rate for peak brain functioning.
More rapidly available carbs, in addition to complex carbs, is a good idea when physically active, or preparing to be physically active. Even if you don't immediately utilize the available sugar, it is the most readily accessible energy in storage anytime in the immediate future.

Fats are even more complex in describing proper consumption patterns and how they function.
But a change in nutrition to include more unsaturated fats is likely to assist in lowering blood pressure if it is high. If a good portion of those unsaturated fats are of the Essential Fatty Acid type, more specifically, Omega 3, with some Omega 6 and 9, they can also help lower Low-Density Lipoprotein counts, raise High-Density Lipoprotein counts, and may help lower total triglyceride count. Which is what you want if you don't already have such qualities. Omega 3s are especially useful because they can be utilized in the formation of neurons and cells, and proper intake of them can help promote brain growth/repair if readily available. While that can be of some use for adults, it's more appropriately a youth-related issue in the first place - if there is repair to be made, there's a chance it's because there wasn't sufficient amounts of it in the early years of brain development. Not so much an issue at the infant/toddler age, since most of the food is specifically-prepared with the best total nutritional package in mind for that point in their life. Omega 3s are basically something you have to specifically look for, because they really aren't in that many foods. Especially true considering most meat is from massive farms where cattle are not eating their natural grazing diet - but are being fed various grains and whatnot. Free-roam/free-graze animals given quality grasses have a better unsaturated fatty acid profile.
Bison tends to be very lean (low in fat) but the majority of the fat that is there is also beneficial.