Lose Weight With the Mediterranean Diet

At the end of the day, after all the diet pills and miracle gadgets and fast-talking salesmen have gone home for the day, we are left with one inescapable fact: To lose weight, you need to burn more calories than you eat. Eat less, exercise more. The problem is that it takes so much time; it is not a fast way to lose weight. It's a lifestyle, a way of thinking, a plan for your whole person-hood.

You have to be careful that you lose weight quickly and safely, without putting yourself at risk for health hazards like dehydration, kidney failure, malnutrition, exhaustion, nervous dysfunction, tooth loss, dull hair, wrinkles, cellulite, sudden heart failure or stroke, which many of the fad crash diets forget to mention. And of course, you want to lose the weight in such a way that it stays off.

So the end of the story, then, is that there is no "get rich quick" way to lose weight. Instead, it is a day-to-day process. The right diet could only take about five pounds per week off of you! But the difference is, it stays off. While that might not sound like a large amount of weight to lose, it actually is a lot! If you lose five pounds per week, that's more than 250 pounds per year! How long have you been overweight? Twenty years? How much longer can you expect to live at your current weight?

If you are willing to leave your impatience behind and not expect immediate gratification, and if you are willing to stick to a regular exercise regimen, then a Mediterranean Diet is for you. But don't let the expectations from other diet plans throw you off track. The other diet plans promise so much more, but they don't work. If all diet plans were honest about their expected results, the Mediterranean Diet would actually look much better by comparison.

Copyright Ray Darken - Ray has included his down-loadable guide to the Mediterranean diet. If you'd like to read more, try these articles, beginning with the Mediterranean Diet - Explained