Pros and Cons of 3 Popular Diet Trends

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Sorry, there’s no magic bullet. You gotta eat healthy and live healthy to be healthy and look healthy. End of story.
––Morgan Spurlock

What’s the best diet? If you have read my content for any length of time, you might remember that, in simple terms, a good diet to gain muscle involves a caloric surplus, whereas a good diet to lose fat involves a caloric deficit.
 
Any diet can be great as long as it accomplishes either task, depending on your goal.
 
A more effective question would be: What’s the best diet for you?
 
In this article, I am going to outline some benefits and downsides of three of the current most popular dieting approaches, so that, if you are considering any of these, you can make an informed decision.
 
The dieting strategies I will touch upon include:
 

• The keto diet and other low-carb diets
• Intermittent fasting
• Calorie cycling

 
I would like to clarify that perhaps none of these methods will be appropriate for you in the long term. In fact, I would rarely implement them with my own clients.
 
However, these diet trends still exist, and I thought that writing this post instead of ignoring their popularity might help people realise that none of these are “special” or in any way superior to others.
 
When it comes to a long-term way of eating, these are signs that the particular diet you are thinking of will work for you:
 

• You can see yourself eating this way indefinitely, not only for one to three months, which is the typical length of a fat loss or muscle-building phase.
• The diet allows you to eat out with friends and family, take part in festive meals, eat lunch out in a pinch, and eat at home. In other words, it should be a versatile approach that you can apply to all life situations without major constraints.
• It is a balanced way of eating that is unlikely to result in micronutrient, fibre, or other nutrient deficiencies.

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