🥗 How to lose weight quickly and not harm your health 🍏

How do crash diets work?

Express diets are conventionally divided into several types:

• You need to eat for a week according to a menu that contains an insignificant amount of calories.
• You need to eat the same set of products for a week, all with the same insignificant amount of calories.
• You need to eat one superfood (or drink a cocktail) for a week, which will destroy fat and cure all diseases at the same time. – In addition to the above, you need to do something for detox. Here the authors' imagination is limitless: from regular enemas to baths with a huge salt content and wraps with cling film.

All these methods have two things in common. They are types of self-torture, when the body is driven into extreme conditions. And this, in theory, helps to lose weight quickly.

Is it possible to lose weight in a week?

Not always. Much depends on what your initial weight was. A person with obesity (when the body mass index is over 30) or simply overweight can theoretically lose a kilogram a day.

But this is not the weight you need to lose.

In theory, during a crash diet, the body should use up stored fat to obtain energy that is no longer supplied by food.

In practice, the body is not so smart to understand why it has stopped receiving normal nutrition. Therefore, it wastes not only fat reserves, but also fluid and muscles.

And if a person initially did not have excess weight, but simply wanted to become even slimmer, then he has nothing to lose. In this case, an express diet may not give any results.

Are there any harms from crash diets?

There is much more harm than good.

The reason is that with fast diets, weight loss is a loss of fluid. The body is simply not able to process several kilograms of fat in a few days. Therefore, only water can quickly leave the body.

The fluid will leave the skin, blood, and muscles at the same time. The brain will suffer – it is the nervous tissue that dehydration hits first. The consequences are headaches and fatigue.

However, weakness from lack of energy is an expected effect. But the appearance of gallstones is an unpleasant surprise that overweight people suffer from when they decide to suddenly go on a strict diet.

The most harmful consequence of all these diets is the belief that this is how you should lose weight. Why do you need to monitor your diet every day, exercise regularly and generally think about your health when you can suffer for a few days and get results?

And naturally, such diets cannot be called balanced. The body will not have enough microelements, and one incomprehensible problem after another will follow. To understand what the threat of constant pampering with such diets is, it is enough to read the forums.

Fans of extreme courses ask each other how to save themselves from stomach pains, problems with stool, hair loss, splitting nails, dizziness, eczema, insomnia, loss of appetite. Some are interested in where their periods have disappeared to.

Are three kilograms worth such sacrifices, especially since the weight will return and the problems will remain.

Will the weight definitely come back?

It will come back. This is a common occurrence. Fast diets do not “speed up” metabolism. There is no scientific evidence at all that any particular combination of products can somehow change the processes of energy consumption in the body in a short period of time.

That is, express diets do not cope with the main task – to destroy fat reserves. They simply destroy you.

Is it possible to follow any kind of express diet?

In fact, extremely low-calorie diets are used. For example, when an obese patient is preparing for gastric bypass surgery or when obesity is so advanced that a low-calorie diet would do more good than harm.

The principle of such a diet is about 800 kilocalories per day. At the same time, the diet should be varied, the diet is made under the supervision of a doctor.

A more gentle method is 1,000–1,200 kilocalories per day for women, 1,200–1,600 for men.

And the norm for weight loss is still no more than 1 kg per week.

How to recognize if a diet is crap?

There are several phrases in the diet description that hint that someone is trying to deceive you:

• Lose weight without diets and exercises!
• Eat what you like and lose weight!
• Lose 15 kg in a month!
• Fat from the abdomen (hips, buttocks) will go away!
• In just one week…

You should also be wary of “before and after”photos in which everything is so good that it’s simply impossible, and suspicious asterisks and footnotes in small print in the program description.

Are there any benefits to crash diets?

Quick diets are easier to stick to. Firstly, they don't last long and you know that you have to be patient for a little while. Secondly, they are simple: you don't have to think about what you can eat and what you can't, you don't have to rack your brains over recipes. Thirdly, if they work, the result is visible immediately, you don't have to wait for months.

There are no such bonuses with healthy weight loss, there is only long-term work on yourself. But you can adopt some useful techniques of quick diets.

• Plan your diet for the week ahead. And don't think about whether you can have a cake today or not. Less torment of choice – easier to stick to the diet.
• Record your weight every other day. Even small victories like 100 grams will help you see progress, and that's the best motivation.
• Make up your diet so that you don’t have to endure it. If you can’t live without sweets, then prepare low-calorie sweets. If you like fast food, make a hamburger from grain bread and boiled beef.

And most importantly. If you still decide that you need to lose weight urgently using extreme conditions, do not rush after the diet to all products in a row. But it is better to choose a program that will help you lose weight gradually. Then urgent measures will not be required.