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This year, the diet-du-jour is the newly-revivedGeneral Motorsdiet, which claims to help people shed seven kilos in just seven days. Now doesnt that sound good!

As with most crash diets, it probably is good at least, in the beginning. But experts unanimously keep crying out against the damaging effects fad diets like this have on the body in the long term.

The concept of the General Motors diet, named after the employees who developed it in the 1980s, is that you consume different food groups on different days. On day one, you have to fruit-load, eating only water-based fruits such as melon. You mightbegin day two with a baked potato and some. The days to follow will be similarly exclusive variations on fruit/veg groupings with the gradual induction of lean meats.

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Some reports of weight loss have been successful. Most dieters lose significant amounts of weight in the first three days. But nutritionists are wary of the controversial quick-fix diet, reported The Independent. Trends may help you quickly lose weight but not fat, leading Harley Street nutritionistRhiannon Lambertsaid. The weight comes back after veering from the given rules of any diet. And the GM Diet is no different. Some may be drawn to it because they may feel out of control around food and want to stick to a rigid plan. Yet, after breaking one of the diet rules, they will feel guilty and ashamed, and may then start another diet which leads to a vicious cycle.

The shame that dieters often associate with breaking rules can in turn lead to further weight gain as they binge on unhealthy foods theyve been craving and depriving themselves of, Lambert added.

Eating a limited number of types of foods every day is simply a type of calorie restriction and the reduced carbohydrate intake will explain the relatively quick weight loss and water weight is a lot of it. Embracing a wide variety of foods should be encouraged but not at the expense of eliminating whole food groups at any one time, the soon-to-be nutrition author explained.

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Dietician Jo Travers agrees: the apparent success of the GM diet is purely due to basic caloric deprivation rather than sustainable dieting. While the GM diet does have a mix of nutrients over the course of the week, your body needs most nutrients every day, she said. By restricting protein for the first few days, you will force your body to break down muscle in order to release amino acids for making new cells, hormones, enzymes and neurotransmitters. Although this does make you lose weight, this is muscle weight, not fat weight.

Travers continued, Its quite an attractive idea that if you just do this one prescriptive thing for a week you will lose weight, but in practice, its much harder to follow then most people think and will often result in less weight loss than was promised followed by rapid weight regain once normal eating is resumed.

To maintain weight loss in the long term, Lambert suggests finding a routine of eating and exercising that one enjoys. Once youve found your happy place, you will find it sustainable. Remember, the best new healthy diet for you is the one you can stick to in the long run, she said.

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