They have become a real plague in the last decade: Diets are everywhere and yet mostly cause nothing but mischief.
Which sounds like the radical dogma of a self-confessed obese person, is in fact also a rule for healthy eating: Diets are not healthy.
They may be harmless and ensure that the body is adequately supplied with vital substances - but they are not an optimal contribution to health, not least, because most of the time they don't work.
Especially one-sided lightning diets often end up having frightening consequences: they undersupply the body for a while, which is acknowledged in particular by the excretion of water (hence the rapid weight loss in the first few days), but lead to a feeling of lack and thus to a displeasure, which you will probably satisfy after the end of the diet - the dreaded yo-yo effect leads to this, that two weeks after a diet you are probably fatter than before.
Don't be fooled by the newest and most innovative of these diets - they are usually luridly advertised, are not very effective and, above all, not really healthy - which of course makes them extremely unsuitable for a wellness diet.
The many miracle pills on the market are actually nothing more than charlatanry, based on people's hopes. Just like unqualified healers sold miracle elixirs in the Middle Ages, intended to improve the health of customers, but had no basis for a proper effect, In principle, these pills also work: they sell themselves through hope and, at best, work through self-suggestion.
They are not effective, usually not healthy and in the worst case even very harmful to the body - it is not for nothing that some deaths worldwide have been attributed to such preparations.
In this respect one can be reasonably sure in Germany, that at least the really dangerous means do not come onto the market at all - so you will spend your money on senseless pills at most, but not for really dangerous ones.
There's a very simple reason, why diets don't work, whatever type of diet or active ingredient they may be based on: they are far too limited in time. The body never attacks the fat reserves in the first few days of a diet, but only excretes more and more water.
And if it really goes to the "mass" of the body, it is more likely to cause a momentary undersupply of the muscles, than that it actually drives true fat loss.
Fat burning is uncomfortably slow, however the fat has settled, there is no magic trick, to get rid of a year's fat in a month.
It is true that through exercise and a healthy diet you can lose weight a little faster than you probably gained weight - but losing weight is definitely a real test of patience, which should not be underestimated.
So the magic word for weight loss can never be energy reduction - that way the desired effect would not be achieved.
But then how can you lose weight??
Recent studies have come to amazing conclusions, according to which one must consider the reduction of fat in food as an important method for losing weight. Fat makes you fat, while carbs aren't nearly as bad, as has been suggested in the past.
The calories, that you ingest through a meal, are incidental, if you pay attention to a low-fat diet - the carbohydrates are practically never converted into body fat, however, any type of dietary fat does.
A wholesome and varied diet, where you don't have to do without saturation or enjoyment, which nevertheless results in long-term weight reduction, is of course really good for your well-being and therefore represents the best wellness diet.
So we can use the "less fat principle" here, which is based on the studies of the University of Göttingen mentioned above, recommend as the holistic best way to lose weight.