Losing weight in a short period of time means a couple of things. If you want to lose 4 pounds or more you might as well prepare yourself to gain the weight again. Weight lost in a short time consists of mostly water and muscle but when you put that weight back on it is not as muscle but water and most important fat! And it is the fat you want to get rid of, right?

Don't worry, I will show you several diets that helps you lose up to 10 pounds in a week. In return I ask that you consider a 'real' weight loss that means that you lose fat and not lean muscle and water weight.

At the present there are many forms of diets, many of them is based upon on excluding a certain group of food like fat, carbohydrates and so on, other diets like Jenny Craig and Weight Watchers comes with pre-packaged foods that not only costs a fortune but they are also very processed and that means that the ingridients have lost a lot of their natural nutrients and that there are added chemicals.

A long time ago, before processed foods, people ate a lot more of what is considered unhealthy today like meats with fat and so on. Still, people had a lot more strength, they worked physically all day long. The ate breakfast, snacks, lunch, snacks, dinner, snacks. The meals contained a lot more of natural nutrients from every food group.

In todays busy life we often by precooked food like hamburgers, deep-frozen vegetables that only need a minute in the micro-wave and so on. The major difference is that back in the good ol'days they ate fresh foods. The longer a vegetable is stored the more it loses its nutritional value.

A diet that few have ever heard of is called the calorie-shifting diet. This means that you shift type of calorie intake every day. One day your calorie intake consists of fat and the next carbohydrates and so on. If you use this diet with the proper type of exercise you will lose weight and lose it for good.