Why Crash Diets Are Not an Option?

Marta — Mon, 12 May 2008 21:00:35 +0000

First and for most, they do not work. If they did, nobody would be fat anymore. We would just stick to grapefruits or cabbage this week and it would solve the problem for entire life. Huh? Not likely.
They do not work, because they are not designed to work. They do what it says on a tin: lose 6 pounds this week. They do not promise you will keep the weight off. You are going to lose 6 pounds of water weight, and maybe a little bit of muscle. You are going to look unhealthy, tired and not in very good mood.
What they do not say, is what else you will lose expect of weight. Hair, for instance. Hair loss is a common companion of crash dieting. Not enough nutrients in a food means that body ‘shut down’. Broken nails and grey skin will follow.
What else?
Our skin is amazing, but still doesn’t like rapid weight loss. You are going to get stretch marks so big, people will ask when you have had your baby. Even if you are 13.
Your metabolism will slow down and go into ‘starvation mode’, trying to preserve what it can. It means that whatever you will eat, it will go straight to build more fat cells.
Welcome yo-yo effect.
Enough scare, what will work?
Little changes, over longer period of time – that’s the whole secret. Less stress, more real food, more exercise and you can live 10 or 20 years longer.

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Why Crash Diets Are Not an Option?