Many people argue over the best diets. One of the top arguments is whether low calorie diets are better than low carb diets. Both of these diets are obviously significantly different.
Low calorie dieting has been the way to go even before low carb dieting had even been conceived. It's a known fact that to lose weight, you need to burn more calories than you ingest. Low calorie diets usually involve eating smaller portions or eating reduced calorie foods. It's typical of low calorie dieters to carefully plan their meals, measure their portions, and count calories. Weight loss depends largely on how many calories are cut out of the diet. If you aren't vigilant about what you put in your mouth, it's easy to get off track. Still this has been, and remains to be, one of the best diets.
The word "fad", as defined by Webster, is a practice or interest followed for a time with exaggerated zeal. Add the word "diet" in front of that and you get the definition for a fad diet. Fad diets usually come in three flavors: rapid weight loss, low carb, and celebrity. These types of diets seem to be constantly rotating in the spotlight on television, the internet, and the radio.
Rapid weight loss is the most common type of fad diet. Why wouldn't it be? Everyone wants to shed those stubborn belly clinging pounds in as short of a time as possible. Most rapid weight loss type diets promise astounding results within a month's time, more often a lot sooner than that. They are also characterized by having a meal plan that would kill most people if they tried to stay on it consistently.