How to lose weight with fat free diets

1) What are Fat Free Diets?

Fat Free Diets are diets that do not allow the consumption of fat calories, or in other words these are diets where dieters consume nothing but protein and carbohydrate calories. Diets that do not contain any fat calories became popular in the late 1980's (when it was thought that fat calories were the only type of calories that make us fat).   However, we now know that this assumption is not true and that carbohydrate calories are also fattening.  In fact, we now know that carbohydrates are just as fattening as "fat calories".

2) What are the negative aspects of Fat Free Diets?

The main negative aspect of fat free diets is that many dieters (who expect to lose weight) can actually gain weight or remain at the same weight (while using a fat free diet), due to the massive over-consumption of carbohydrates (if they are not careful).  Dieters can gain weight using fat free diets because these diets typically make up for their lack of fat calories with an over-consumption of carbohydrate calories.  Therefore, since the average person eats too many carbohydrates to begin with, the additional intake of carbohydrates often end up being stored as body fat tissue.

3) What are the positive aspects of Fat Free Diets?

Fat Free Diets are not good for "weight loss", and since we are only talking about weight loss then there are really no positive aspects to using fat free diets (of course, this type of diet can have positive aspects for those who suffer from high cholesterol and heart conditions, but for "weight loss" these types of diets have no real positive aspects.

4) How much weight loss can dieters expect each week using Fat Free Diets?

Dieters can expect to lose no measurable amount of weight each week, and if not careful a dieter can even gain one pound per week (due to the excessive carbs eaten on the diet which can cause weight gain).

5) What are some alternatives to Fat Free Diets?

Any sensible, well balanced diet is a good alternative.  A good alternative is a diet based on "portion control" (reduction of calories) which also is fairly low in carbs so that insulin levels are kept stable. Just about any type of diet is a better alternative to a pure fat free diet.