Every year there seems to be a new fad diet that gains popularity. Many people follow the trends of their favorite movie star leading many to follow celebrity diet secrets published in magazines.
Short Term Planning
Although celebrities and models look like they’re in great shape, they aren’t always good examples of how to maintain a healthy body weight. Most actors and celebrities will add additional pounds when they’re not in front of cameras, often as much as twenty or thirty pounds.
Several weeks before a new movie or television season is when most celebrity diets will begin. It leaves them a very short period of time to lose a large amount of weight. It doesn’t leave room for conventional meal planning and weight loss tactics because their goals are very near term.
Dieters should also remain skeptical of pictures and magazine covers praising a celebrity diet, because most published photos are heavily edited to make the celebrity appear thinner.
Drastic Weight Loss
When it’s time for a celebrity to lose weight, they often turn to the latest fad diet that promises drastic weight loss in a very short time frame. It is not difficult to manipulate your body into extreme weight loss for very short periods of time.
If you were to slash your calories to a bare minimum of 1500 calories for men, and 1200 calories for women, you would begin to drop weight quickly because your body doesn’t have enough resources to maintain a high body weight. The drawback of such actions is your body will eventually adapt to an extreme fad diet.
Your body can destroy muscle tissue to supplement the lack of calories, and it can enter what’s known as “starvation mode” which increases the likelihood of storing more body fat in the future.
Celebrities can face the consequences of an extreme diet, because they will be off camera when their body does a “yo-yo” and returns to their normal body weight.
Is A Celebrity Diet For You?
Before beginning a celebrity diet you should take note of all the known consequences. If you’re reducing your total calorie intake by more than thirty percent of what you normally eat, you can expect side effects like dizziness, lack of energy and nausea.
Some diets are so extreme that it leaves people feeling too sick to leave their bed. While this may be viable for a celebrity with millions of dollars, it’s not a realistic weight loss plan for people who need to drive to and from work every day.
