Ever been flipping, scrolling, or reading through social media and get a sudden urge to chug a gallon of celery juice and only eat bacon and butter for the rest of your life if that means it'll make you skinny?
Honestly, in this day and age we are overly saturated with the amount of conflicting information regarding fat-loss, weight-loss and muscle building.
I remember when I was younger it was a little harder to be reached with such a message since most had to be done through magazines or tv commercial where they state you eat as little as possible to get the body of that super model you idolized. It is now so easy for impressionable youth to become exposed to negative or untrue information regarding diets. There's keto, vegan, vegetarian, pescatarian, low carb/high carb, intuitive eating, juice fasts and many more that are being shouted from the high heavens to have worked and who's to say they don't but every body is different.
The underlying factor with all of these however is to be in a calorie deficit if your intended goal is to lose weight. By either eating less calories than you consume or by increasing your daily expenditure to burn more calories than your consuming, your body will eventually lose weight because it is using fat stores as energy. All the fad diets you see on social media are a way in manipulating those variables to see change whether they want to sugar coat it by cutting out a food group or not.
Now some may be on a specific diet for ethical reasons, health concerns or food intolerances however for the majority of us, we flip flop between different ways of eating once we see no change because we are not consistent or patient for a longer period of time to really reap the benefits of healthy eating.
You don't need any drastic change to your diet or nutrition, you don't need to starve yourself or run 5 miles after eating a piece of chocolate. You need to pick what works best for YOU and stick to that for several months and you will see the progress you want both health and physique wise.
Diet culture wants you to be weak so they can pray on you, come back stronger with education and a lifestyle that works for YOU.
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