Never Follow These Diets

Whether it’s a dress that no longer fits, a pair of jeans you can’t pull above your knee or a tagged photograph that you thought was of someone else- the trigger to get healthy usually comes with a bang, not a whimper.

That’s when the fad dieter’s bag of trick appears. Liquids replace solids, shortcuts replace nutrition, and panic replaces common sense. But we are here to tell you that there is no such thing as a quick fix when it comes to health. Nothing can place a goody-two-shoes diet –and-exercise approach to weight loss. The weight has settled in with time, it’ll leave you, too, in time.

The tapeworm diet- The dieter eats tapeworms. And the tapeworms eat the foods. We all must read it. In this grizzly approach to dieting, parasitic tapeworms inside your body feed on the food you eat, helping you lose weight. But what if these worms get bored and decide to travel to your brain?

The cotton ball diet- cotton balls are on the first priority. Where dieters swallow cotton balls- which are not food, by the way- in a bid to fill up the stomach.

The teatox diet- this one seems innocuous but can mislead people into thinking that you are losing weight in a healthy way. Teatox, as its name suggests, is derived from tea detoxing, where tea is the path to weight loss. Many of these teas claim benefits like weight loss, reduction in bloating, etc.

However, according to the dietetic association (BDA), these teas have higher caffeine levels than usual, cloaked under names like ‘yerba mate’, or ‘guarna’ and /or contain diuretics / laxatives. These ingredients may make you appear slim but the weight loss is usually water weight. It always comes back.

 

The diet pill diet- this needs no introduction, unfortunately. Whether it’s masked as Ayurveda or wears the appearance of being natural anything, that comes in the form of a pill and promises weight loss will go back on its word sooner or later – leaving your body more damages than when it started out.

These are dietary extremes, but extreme dieters exist. More in numbers than you think. The idea here is to remind you to love yourself, not punish yourself.

If you are a patient enough, you’ll get the results you want.

 

 

 

 

 

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