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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?