If you are going to go on a diet, you need to make sure that what you are doing is safe. There is quite a bit of dieting advice out there that is simply not safe at all. You may feel that losing some pounds of fat is something that you want, but it's not worth doing sacrificing your overall health.

A diet is not safe if it is starvation based. There are many diets where you are told to starve yourself for a number of days or drink limited mixtures of juice to lose weight. These are not healthy for you at all. Typically you are losing just water weight which is not beneficial for you at all. You will also be miserable and lacking all sorts of energy. Skip these types of diets.

Don't go on diets that lack proper nutrition. Nutrition is important to the body. It's hard have a healthy diet and expect your body to operate and lose weight properly if you are missing out on nutrients. Another problem without having these nutrients is that you will end up being hungry as your body is crying out for certain nutrition that it needs.

A diet is safe if your doctor approves it. If you are going to your doctor for a check up or another reason, talk to him or her about your dieting plan. They should be able to tell you quickly if these are going to be safe or not. If your doctor approves your diet, you know it's safe.

A healthy and safe diet will involve some exercise. Exercise makes it easy to lose weight safely. You can also eat a proper diet with enough nutrition in it while still losing some weight with exercise.

Aim for about one pound a week. It's not realistic to lose pounds each day. If you are losing tons of weight each week and not working out extremely hard each day, more than a pound a week is too much.