Diet Tips to Avoid
There are some scary diet "tips" out there, coming from the celebrity front. Sure, we’ve all heard about the models who are anorexic, the actresses afraid to eat more than a few leaves of lettuce at a time. No, I’m talking about some diet "tips" that can tip you right over into a grave!
Here’s one of the new diets — a fast. With a twist. Fasts aren’t anything new, and they can be healthy — but not Hollywood-style.
How about a diet of water, lemon juice, maple syrup and cayenne pepper? And then take a colon cleanse (so what is there to cleanse, anyway?). And I’m not talking a one or two day fast, either.
Another trick is to use a laxative tea. A cup is fine, but some people are drinking five and ten cups of this stuff a day. Now that’s a way to mess up your body’s schedule — as soon as you stop with the tea, you get painfully constipated.
Here’s one I talked about the other day in my post about drunkorexia — women who subsist on coffee and alcohol, and the trend started with the celebrity circuit. Heaven forbid that something healthy should pass between their lips.
This one may hit home with us, though — why can’t we lose weight when we do the same things other people do? The "other people" may not be doing what you think; case in point:
“I had one actress who trained with me and took six Spin classes a week. And all
she ate was lettuce and Swedish Fish. When the press asked her how she’d
‘transformed’ her body, she said, ‘Oh, I do yoga and hike with my puppy.’ That
made me laugh. Don’t lie about how much you work out, because other women are
going to think, I walk my dog, why don’t I look like that?”
— Gunnar
Peterson, fitness instructor
(Read the rest of the article here.)
Losing weight the right (i.e. healthy) way is hard and slow. But wouldn’t you rather be healthy while you’re losing weight than so sick by the time you’ve lost the weight that you don’t have the energy for anything?
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Losing weight the healthy and natural way is the only way for us normal ladies! We can’t afford personal trainers and crazy foods. That’s why fad diets and all the Hollywood garbage doesn’t work for us! Sensible weight loss will stay off. That’s the only answer especially when we are busy with the rest of our lives and can’t dedicate all our time to our looks. Even if we wanted to!
I am 45 years old and finding it harder than ever to lose weight. I lost 20 pounds since January and it has been hard work. I find I actually lose weight quicker when I actually eat! I don’t mean eating in abundance, but consuming about 1,200 calories per day has worked. I am losing about 1.5 pounds per week — slow, but healthy.
You are absolutely right that one should loose weight to be fit and fine.But many are given such diet programmes by Weight-loss agencies that proves very unhealthy in the long run.Any one can loose weight by starving at a stretch for weeks but that is not the right thing to do.It might lead to several complications afterwards.As they say “slow and steady wins the race”.So the bottom-line is ,be sensible and don’t act crazy to shed some extra pounds.
You are completely right that weight loss should be done with healthy methods. Gradual weight loss–calories burned vs calories consumed–with healthy foods and exercise is the only thing that has ever worked for me. Any fad diets I tried were so restrictive, I always ended up cheating. Slow and steady is the healthiest way to long term fitness.
I have a couple of friends who did that master cleanse thing. I told them they were crazy for it, but apparently they claimed that it made them feel pretty good. The results were very dramatic, but unfortunately for them, it didn’t last.
If you read the article about the master cleanse on wikipedia, there’s some very conflicting opinions about the purported benefits of that master cleanse thing.
Slow and steady wins the race, just like with the tortoise and the hare.