Top 50 Fad Diets Explained

Everyone wants to lose weight to get that perfect body. Nowadays, many people focus on ad’ diet to lose weight. The ad’ diet is actually a faster approach of losing significant amount of weight. But these fad diets are not always the correct and healthy way to lose weight. Here we have explained 50 most popular fad diets. Read on.

TOP 50 FAD DIETS

1. HCG DIET

The HCG diet is all about consuming just 500 calories in a day followed by few drops of HCG i.e. human chorionic gonadotropin, pregnancy hormone.

2. KETO DIET

The infamous keto diet focuses on high fat and low carb diet. This diet is quite restrictive in nature while focusing on junk foods most of the time.

3. FIVE-BITE DIET

This diet makes you to skip breakfast and only have five bites of your food for lunch and five bites of your food in dinner.

4. WEREWOLF DIET

This diet is all about consuming fruit and veggie juice along with water for 24 hours during the new moon or full moon.

5. ALKALINE DIET

The alkaline diet focuses on eliminating sweets, dairy, meat, processed foods and artificial foods for weight loss.

6. ZERO-SUGAR DIET

This diet ensures that you consume no sugar in any form throughout the day. This means no added sugar, refined sugar or processed food.

7. JUICE CLEANSING DIET

This diet focuses on weight loss with the help of juice. This can lead to dehydration as well as malnutrition in the long run.

8. BLOOD TYPE DIET

This is a no-meat diet mainly based on fruits and veggies. This diet focuses on your blood type and chooses the foods for you.

9. TEATOXES DIET

This fad diet plan includes kinny teas’ in your diet with special additive herbs such as Senna for weight loss.

10. APPLE CIDER VINEGAR DIET

While apple cider vinegar can help in weight loss, being on only apple cider vinegar diet can cause weight loss due to poor appetite.

11. LECTIN-FREE DIET

Going ectin-free’ is one of the most popular fad diets where you have to eliminate lectins from your diet.

12. WHOLE-30 DIET

This fad diet has become quite viral these days. This diet encourages you to cut off sugar, alcohol, legumes, grains and dairy from your diet for weight loss.

13. ACTIVATE CHARCOAL DIET

After popular celebrities vouch about this fad diet, it has become one of the most popular ones. Activated charcoal diet is used for removing the toxins from your body.

14. CELERY JUICE DIET

Just like the juice diet, this celery juice diet is also based on juices made from celery. Though celery is good for health, having celery juice only can affect your gut health.

15. CABBAGE SOUP DIET

The cabbage soup diet has become viral where it is expected to help in rapid weight loss. But this diet doesn’t contain all the essential nutrients that a person needs on daily basis.

16. GRAPEFRUIT DIET

This is another fad diet that comprises of only grapefruit juices and claims to be helpful in weight loss. The grapefruit contains some enzymes that supposedly can burn fats efficiently.

17. BABY FOOD DIET

This fad diet consists of only baby foods throughout the day i.e. eating veggie puree and fruits. Though it can help to shed few pounds, it is not likely to sustain for long.

18. MASTER CLEANSE DIET

Master cleanse diet is another fad diet for weight loss. This diet consists of only salt water drink and lemonade drinks for cleansing your body.

19. DUKAN DIET

Being followed by the Kate Middleton, this fad diet has gained a lot of popularity. This diet comprises of high protein with veggies on the side.

20. NUTRISYSTEM

This is another fad diet program for 28 days. This diet program offers prepackaged foods for men and women meant for weight loss.

21. ATKINS DIET

This is a low-carb fad diet designed for quick weight loss. This diet restricts carbohydrates for faster weight loss.

22. PALEO DIET

Paleo fad diet consists of eggs, meat, fish, fruits, veggies and nuts. This diet ensures that you ignore processed foods, sugar and grains for weight loss.

23. SHAKE DIET

The shake diet is another fad diet where you have to replace your meals with the shakes. These shakes are made up of fruits and veggies along with milk or curd.

24. VEGAN DIET

Vegan diet focuses on plant-based foods only. Vegan diet is against anything derived from animals, such as dairy and meat.

25. MILITARY DIET

This fad diet is also called hot dog diet as this diet involves eating a lot of tuna and hot dog for losing weight. It claims to boost the metabolism.

26. RAW FOOD DIET

Raw food diet comprises of raw eating of fish, veggies etc. for weight loss. Best example for this is sushi.

27. COTTON BALL DIET

This is the most pathetic fad diet where people eat cotton balls dipped in smoothies and juices. This can make some feel too full to eat anything.

28. BREATHARIAN DIET

The breatharian diet is all about living your days on just tea and enjoying fresh air and sunlight for losing weight.

29. SOUTH BEACH DIET

The South Beach Diet comprises of low carbohydrates and healthy fats along with high protein. Low carbs can cause rapid weight loss.

30. ZONE DIET

Zone diet is all about eating food in certain ratio i.e. 30% of protein, 40% of carbohydrates and 30% of fat for losing weight.

31. THE 5:2 DIET

This fad diet involves normal eating for 5 days in a week and then restricted diet for 2 days where you to limit your calorie intake to just 500 to 600 calories.

32. BULLET-PROOF COFFEE DIET

This diet consists of bulletproof coffee containing MCT oil and butter for rapid weight loss. Bulletproof-brand coffee beans are needed.

33. LIQUID DIET

Liquid diet is all about surviving on liquids only, such as water, juices etc. for weight management. This is meant for flushing out your system.

34. MACROBIOTIC DIET

This fad diet comprises of local fresh vegetables, beans, nuts and whole grains. This diet can help in weight loss.

35. DETOX DIET

Detox diet is all about detoxification by juices, smoothies and detoxifying teas. Detoxification can lead to significant weight loss.

36. INTERMITTENT FASTING DIET

Intermittent fasting focuses mainly on when you have to eat. This diet says you to eat during specific hours for weight loss.

37. LEMONADE DIET

Lemonade diet is all about have lemonade throughout the day for giving you energy and flushing out toxins to reduce weight.

38. TAPEWORM DIET

This weird fad diet consists of eating an egg with tapeworm inside. After the egg hatch, the tapeworm grows inside you and eats all your excess calories helping in weight loss.

39. SACRED HEART DIET

This fad diet requires the people to consume only 7 to 8 ounces of water along with veggies soup throughout the day to lose weight.

40. LOW-FAT DIET

Low fat diet comprises of foods that are low in fat content to help in losing weight.

41. SUPPLEMENT DIET

Supplement diet is all about eating nutritional supplements to replace the foods that you take for nutrients.

42. HYPOTHYROIDISM DIET

This diet consists of ample fish, meat, eggs, veggies and fruits but gluten-free grains and seeds for weight loss.

43. ELIMINATION DIET

Elimination diet focuses on eliminating those foods that your body is not capable of tolerating for weight loss.

44. SCARSDALE DIET

This is a low carb and high protein fad diet for managing and losing weight. This diet contains 43% of protein and 34% of carbs.

45. GM DIET

GM diet is a high protein and low calorie diet that focuses mainly on shedding extra fats faster.

46. THE 3-DAY DIET

This is more like the military diet where you have to follow low-calorie diet for 3 days consecutively to lose weight.

47. SMOOTHIE DIET

This fad diet ensures that you survive on smoothies only made up of fruits and veggies for significant weight loss.

48. VOLUMETRICS DIET

This fad diet plan is designed for weight loss by making people fuller on low calorie filling foods.

49. WEIGHT WATCHER DIET

The fad diet works on by simply calculating the calories that you intake for effective weight management and weight loss.

50. HALLELUJAH DIET

This diet comprises of 85% of unprocessed and raw foods (plant-based) for faster weight loss.