Diets to lose weight in a week

To start off, it is important to look at the WHO (World Health Organization) guidelines on weight loss. The WHO guidelines recommend losing between 0.5 kg and 1 kg per week. This loss is different for each person and how strict the diet is, but regardless of normal variation it is clear that we don't have diets to lose weight quickly, with weight loss between 3 and 5 kg a week.

To keep weight off in the long term, it is important to lose it properly and not with the typical "quick weight-loss diets". We must slowly learn how to change the eating habits that we have acquired over a lifetime. Nutritionists know that this no easy task, as it requires changing habits that we grew up with, so we will be by your side throughout the process. Dietitians, in addition to establishing a monthly menu or diet, work to re-educate patients in each session to become more self-sufficient. However, as is to be expected, you can't see results in a matter of days. Thanks to these gradual changes in our eating habits, we can make our environment and the food we eat healthier.

Taking into account the topics we have been discussing, it is clear that a one-week weight-loss diet goes against the principles of a balanced, varied, sufficient diet. Weight-loss diets, which we do not recommend, normally have strict restrictions that make it difficult to get all the nutrients we need in a balanced, healthy manner. Plus, most of these diets allow you to lose weight or volume by reducing water, not fat mass.

It is true that there is a factor that can help speed up weight loss a bit: physical exercise. It isn't the same to diet without doing exercise as dieting in combination with physical activity. By doing physical activity every day we help our body burn calories while also building muscle.

For all of these reasons, we can surely say that quick weight-loss diets are a myth that do not help you achieve your long-term goals and often lead to the yo-yo effect, which causes you to put weight back on quickly. We encourage you to lose weight with a new life plan so you can keep it off in the long term and develop healthy new habits.