How NOT to Diet

Over-the counter diet pills: If you need a diet pill, get it from your doctor, not from a truck stop or a flea market stall. Some contain properties that can be harmful to your body, particularly your heart. The fine print always tells you to go on a reduced-calorie diet and exercise program. That's how you'll lose the weight. Weight-Loss Jewelry, Clothing, and Shoes: Ads you see where woman claim to have kept slim with these products are full of it. Pinky rings will not make your butt smaller. Diet Patches: These usually contain various herbs that won't help you lose weight and may not even be absorbed through your skin anyway. The only way a diet patch can help you lose weight is if you use it to tape your mouth shut. Extreme Diet Schemes: Cabbage soup, grapefruit, water, and juice diets might sound good in theory, but after 3 days of eating nothing but citrus fruit, it starts to get a little difficult to unpucker, and cabbage, well, let's just say cabbage can be a little windy when eaten in mass quantities. Besides, unbalanced meals like these do nothing for you nutritionally, and limiting yourself to one type of food can be harmful. Not to mention boring. The only thing you end up losing on these crash diets is your sense of humor. "Detox" Plans: That's just a fancy version of Ex-Lax and a jug of water. Make water and fiber a part of your healthy diet to keep your system clean. Diets that Claim You'll Lose Weight Effortlessly: That's just not how it works. If it did, we'd all be running around in a size 2 bikinis. Weight loss takes a change in lifestyle, through diet and exercise. From the 3 Fat Chicks on a Diet book