Everyone has that one friend who went to one of those rapid weight loss diet clinics and went from a size 20 to a size 8 in three months. While they may look great for another three months, many of those dieters eventually wind up gaining weight again.
“The main problem is that these diets are designed to manipulate the body in a way that is a shock to the system in order to help people lose the weight, but the program isn’t designed to keep the weight off,” said Dr. Brian Arcement, medical director of Nuviva Medical Weight Loss. “The regimen is focused on a super-strict diet and a battery of supplements that address what it takes to get weight off fast, but it doesn’t address the more important issues of nutrition, exercise and lifestyle. It’s rough on the body as well as the psyche, which leads to people eventually hitting the wall with the rigid program, and putting all that weight back on.”
