The Good:
- It can unite a group of people together to help motivate and challenge others to make the life style change needed to be successful in weight loss.
- It may create a new life for someone. By this I mean, it could help a person escape from the everyday temptations that people have a hard time of letting go. ie, the sweets, the salty, the fattening.
- It is a life style change, which is what people need mostly when dieting. You can't just say for 6 weeks I am not going to eat this and this and this...but after that 6 weeks is up, gorge yourself on everything in sight. Nope. You can't considered a "diet" successful if you lose X amount of weight and then gain it all back 1 week later.
- It can give a person the confidence to keep pushing towards a healthier life style.
- It can also change your attitude, mood and overall outlook on life. That marathon that you never thought you would want to do, seems possible now. The goal of going to the gym more often seems more reasonable rather than daunting.
The Bad:
- It can end up being a yo-yo diet. You lose 20lbs in 6 weeks, great, but did you maintain it? Constant yo-yo dieting makes it harder to keep the weight off because when your body mass decreases by 10 percent or more, it ends up slowing down your metabolism by 11 to 15 percent.
- Some people will give up. There are a lot of people that will see that there is no way that they can win the whole challenge so they just give up and go back to their old ways.
- Some diet challenges lack certain nutrients or types of foods that when introduced back into the body can be detrimental to your digestion. Like carbs. Completely subtracting carbs from your diet can be really good for a weight loss, but if you stop eating them for an extended period of time and then decide that you are going to have a huge sandwich from your favorite deli, your body may freak out slightly. It might not digest and just turn into fat or it may digest, but your body may think it is a poison, and well you get the idea.
- They don't work. Some diets work for some, but for some the diet might not work. There are certain things that everyone can cut out and lose weight, sometimes, there are items that don't affect people.
- They don't change the people's bad habits into good habits. Kind of falls under the yo-yo thing, but people just will not realize that the bad habits are what need to go, not just adding a diet.
