Stop dieting

Thu, May 8 12:45 AM

Now, so there actually is an International No Diet Day? Yes, but before you reach out for that large pizza with extra cheese, you should know that this isn't exactly stuff-yourself-all-you-can day. Rather, it's about pausing in the process of chasing that perfect figure to make sure weight-loss dieting hasn't turned into a crazy obsession.

More importantly, it's about learning how to diet right.Take 29-year-old software engineer Manasi Joshi for instance.

Just five kg away from her ideal body weight, she plunged into dieting, without knowing how to do it correctly. "I drastically cut down on what I ate through the day and would most often end up skipping breakfast," she says.

A constant preoccupation with dieting and losing extra weight is what leads people to fad or crash diets because they promise weight loss in a jiffy. " A few crazy fad diets you should stay away from: The General Motors diet: Involves eating just one type of food on a given day.

So you eat only fruits on Mondays, vegetables on Tuesdays, all fruits and vegetables on Wednesday, eight bananas and three glasses of milk on Thursday, four meat steaks with vegetables on Friday and Saturday and brown rice, fruit juices and all the vegetables you can on Sunday. Metabolism diet: This one just involves having black coffee or tea (no sugar), hard-boiled eggs, meat steak, mozzarella cheese, yoghurt and celery or lettuce in miniscule portions and combinations through the week.

The Hollywood miracle 48-hour diet: It is the craziest of all fad diets. It claims that you will lose up to five kg in 48 hours.

It is basically just a juice fast. An essential part of the diet is a 'miracle' juice - a blend of vitamins, fruits, minerals, antioxidants and essential oils.

Like most rapid weight loss, you lose water and toxins rather than fat.

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