Diets

Who hasn’t heard about a “great diet” like the Soup diet or the Moon diet? How about the Grapefruit diet? Or even worst the pregnant women’s urine diet! Truth is that there are plenty of diets out there, some less tolerable than others. Now it’s not clever to follow diets that are extremely restrictive or drastic. Our bodies go into “starvation mode” when we don’t eat enough, and eventually our metabolic rate declines. Besides crash dieting will lead you to feel fatigued, and you’ll find it hard to concentrate. Not to mention you’ll gain the weight you lost in no time. In other words, avoid crash dieting. Women who exercise regularly (3-5x per week) need at least 1,500 calories a day. So both exercise and a balanced diet are much more beneficial that the latest fad diet.

Cecilia Fernandes