To begin with we must first say something about a crash diet. This form of dieting is all about abstaining from any form of food and drink, with an exception to water, for a period of twelve hours. This does not work. The metabolism will realize this trick and will begin to draw energy from bone and muscle and will preserve fat deposits in a survival effort. Better than this will be to go on an intermittent diet, abstaining from food every alternate day and changing the type of food regularly to confuse the metabolism. This works well in a majority of individuals.Begin by keeping a diet diary. Research by the American Journal for Preventive Medicine has shown that those who keep a journal of the food they eat daily lose twice as much fat as those who do not. The journal will show what hinders and what promotes weight loss.

Include low fat foods in your weight loss diet. Fat contains nine calories per gram of fat from carbs and proteins. But this does not mean one can eat an unlimited amount of fat free foods. Everything has to be done within limits. Eating very slowly also helps a lot when one is trying to lose weight.There is logic behind this. People who eat fast tend to over eat. This is because the stomach takes at least 15 minutes to tell the brain that it is full. Eating slowly will give the brain enough time to get this signal and tell the person to stop eating. Where as if the person eats fast, the stomach will send the signal which will take fifteen to twenty minutes to reach the brain, in the meantime the individual has eaten three times more food. This extra food will end up as fat reserves in the body over time.