We live in the age of diets, one might say. These days, everywhere you look; people are dieting and trying to achieve some goal with their diet. For most people, dieting is a way to stay fit, not to put on pounds and to stay attractive. For others, it is more of a health issue as they are obese and need to lose some weight soon unless they wish to start suffering from conditions that might one day put their lives at danger.

And truth be told, dieting is the best way to lose weight, of course when combined with regular exercise. Losing weight is actually simple mathematics. You need to spend more calories than you intake which is when your own body starts burning its accumulations of fats which are what people are actually trying to get rid of. You may think that you need all kinds of different products, pills and shakes that are intended for dieting people, but the simple fact is that nothing works like a strict diet and a regular exercise regimen that you stick with.

When it comes to a diet, there are innumerable possibilities out there. There are diets that restrict your calorie intake in a very brutal fashion and these are usually the most effective ones. Besides these, there are also diets that follow a certain principle, such as the caveman diets and other similar fads. These are fads because they appear suddenly, people jump on the wagon and soon everyone finds out that they are not as effective as they were made out to be. One of the diets that does not fall into this group I the 1000 cals diet, which is in fact a diet that involves the intake of no more than 1000 calories each day and which is one of the most drastic diets around.

However, being one of the most drastic ones, it is also one of the most effective ones and for a very simple reason – you eat very little and your body cannot help but start burning the fats almost immediately. It is however considered to be too restrictive for prolonged periods of time and the experts do not recommend that you keep it for more than a week or two at the most. In fact, it is considered mostly to be a kick-off diet, meaning that it is a diet that will kick off a weight loss regimen that will be quite serious, but not as serious as the 1000 cals diet.

One of the most important things to remember about a 1000 diet is that it is very difficult to stick with it for the simple reason that it involves eating very, very little. Many people find difficulties sticking with it and if you want to do it right, you will really need to commit and put in as much effort as you can. In the end, it will be worth it.