Pass The Cotton Wool - 1 Ball Or 2?

Hey guys!
With summer coming up soon, I thought I'd write a post about some of the ridiculous fad diets that are around, as a lot of people follow them to get a beach body and maybe don't realise how dangerous they can really be. So, hopefully this will inspire you to lose weight in a healthier way :)

This week, I was chatting with one of my friends, and she mentioned that she was thinking about going on a diet to try and lose some weight before summer. Wanting to lose some weight myself, I asked her how she planned to do it, and she told me that she was going to try the baby food diet – a crazy fad diet where you replace two meals a day with pureed baby food, then have a healthy dinner.

I’ve never been the kind of girl who’s followed a faddy diet, or have even wanted to – years of reading stories about people who put the weight straight back on, or who end up taking it too far and getting ill from taking it to the extremes kind of put me off.

I told her that, if she was serious about dieting, I’d join her but I didn’t want to do that one – why would you willingly choose to eat baby food? It looks and smells disgusting, haha, and I would never willingly eat that – so we decided to look online to see what kind of diet we could both do together.

Some of them were absolutely crazy, and sounded really dangerous, and some were just downright bizarre!

A small selection of the ones we found included:

The tapeworm diet – where you swallow a tapeworm and it attaches its suckers to your stomach and consumes half of your food intake – this makes me feel sick even just thinking about it.

The cabbage soup diet – where you make a massive vat of cabbage soup, and can only eat that, along with some other restricted items. Good for losing weight over s short period of time, but you then have to go onto a healthy, balanced diet to maintain the weight loss. This is actually a medically approved diet, apparently, but because of the vast amount of cabbage you will be ingesting, you will smell pretty bad for the duration of the diet.

The coloured plate diet – apparently, if you eat pale foods like pasta off a darker coloured plate, you will eat less of it than if you eat it off a similarly coloured plate, as it makes it stand out more and you can see what you are eating and the portion size better.

The scariest one that we found, which is apparently gaining more popularity recently, is the cotton wool diet, where you soak balls of cotton wool in juice and swallow 5 of them when you feel hungry, to create the illusion of fullness. Needless to say, this is extremely dangerous, and should never ever be attempted by anyone. It’s scary how much pressure is put upon people to look a certain way in this day and age, and how influential photoshopped and airbrushed images can be. As long as you’re happy and healthy, nothing else should matter.

Needless to say, once we were done researching these diets, we decided instead to just reach for the biscuit tin and indulge ourselves, instead of risking our lives – and sanity – for the sake of losing a few pounds a bit more quickly.

Have you ever tried a diet? Did it actually work? Or do you just eat healthily and exercise regularly?

This week, I was chatting with one of my friends, and she mentioned that she was thinking about going on a diet to try and lose some weight before Christmas. Wanting to lose some weight myself, I asked her how she planned to do it, and she told me that she was going to try the baby food diet – a crazy fad diet where you replace two meals a day with pureed baby food, then have a healthy dinner.

I’ve never been the kind of girl who’s followed a faddy diet, or have even wanted to – years of reading stories about people who put the weight straight back on, or who end up taking it too far and getting ill from taking it to the extremes kind of put me off.

I told her that, if she was serious about dieting, I’d join her but I didn’t want to do that one – why would you willingly choose to eat baby food? It looks and smells disgusting, haha, and I would never willingly eat that – so we decided to look online to see what kind of diet we could both do together.

Some of them were absolutely crazy, and sounded really dangerous, and some were just downright bizarre!

A small selection of the ones we found included:

The tapeworm diet – where you swallow a tapeworm and it attaches its suckers to your stomach and consumes half of your food intake – this makes me feel sick even just thinking about it.

The cabbage soup diet – where you make a massive vat of cabbage soup, and can only eat that, along with some other restricted items. Good for losing weight over s short period of time, but you then have to go onto a healthy, balanced diet to maintain the weight loss. This is actually a medically approved diet, apparently, but because of the vast amount of cabbage you will be ingesting, you will smell pretty bad for the duration of the diet.

The coloured plate diet – apparently, if you eat pale foods like pasta off a darker coloured plate, you will eat less of it than if you eat it off a similarly coloured plate, as it makes it stand out more and you can see what you are eating and the portion size better.

The scariest one that we found, which is apparently gaining more popularity recently, is the cotton wool diet, where you soak balls of cotton wool in juice and swallow 5 of them when you feel hungry, to create the illusion of fullness. Needless to say, this is extremely dangerous, and should never ever be attempted by anyone. It’s scary how much pressure is put upon people to look a certain way in this day and age, and how influential photoshopped and airbrushed images can be. As long as you’re happy and healthy, nothing else should matter.

Needless to say, once we were done researching these diets, we decided instead to just reach for the biscuit tin and indulge ourselves, instead of risking our lives – and sanity – for the sake of losing a few pounds a bit more quickly.

Have you ever tried a diet? Did it actually work? Or do you just eat healthily and exercise regularly?

Read more at http://birdsontheblog.co.uk/pass-the-cotton-wool-one-ball-or-two/#5hMIVt72T7P5hcL3.99

This week, I was chatting with one of my friends, and she mentioned that she was thinking about going on a diet to try and lose some weight before Christmas. Wanting to lose some weight myself, I asked her how she planned to do it, and she told me that she was going to try the baby food diet – a crazy fad diet where you replace two meals a day with pureed baby food, then have a healthy dinner.

I’ve never been the kind of girl who’s followed a faddy diet, or have even wanted to – years of reading stories about people who put the weight straight back on, or who end up taking it too far and getting ill from taking it to the extremes kind of put me off.

I told her that, if she was serious about dieting, I’d join her but I didn’t want to do that one – why would you willingly choose to eat baby food? It looks and smells disgusting, haha, and I would never willingly eat that – so we decided to look online to see what kind of diet we could both do together.

Some of them were absolutely crazy, and sounded really dangerous, and some were just downright bizarre!

A small selection of the ones we found included:

The tapeworm diet – where you swallow a tapeworm and it attaches its suckers to your stomach and consumes half of your food intake – this makes me feel sick even just thinking about it.

The cabbage soup diet – where you make a massive vat of cabbage soup, and can only eat that, along with some other restricted items. Good for losing weight over s short period of time, but you then have to go onto a healthy, balanced diet to maintain the weight loss. This is actually a medically approved diet, apparently, but because of the vast amount of cabbage you will be ingesting, you will smell pretty bad for the duration of the diet.

The coloured plate diet – apparently, if you eat pale foods like pasta off a darker coloured plate, you will eat less of it than if you eat it off a similarly coloured plate, as it makes it stand out more and you can see what you are eating and the portion size better.

The scariest one that we found, which is apparently gaining more popularity recently, is the cotton wool diet, where you soak balls of cotton wool in juice and swallow 5 of them when you feel hungry, to create the illusion of fullness. Needless to say, this is extremely dangerous, and should never ever be attempted by anyone. It’s scary how much pressure is put upon people to look a certain way in this day and age, and how influential photoshopped and airbrushed images can be. As long as you’re happy and healthy, nothing else should matter.

Needless to say, once we were done researching these diets, we decided instead to just reach for the biscuit tin and indulge ourselves, instead of risking our lives – and sanity – for the sake of losing a few pounds a bit more quickly.

Have you ever tried a diet? Did it actually work? Or do you just eat healthily and exercise regularly?

Read more at http://birdsontheblog.co.uk/pass-the-cotton-wool-one-ball-or-two/#5hMIVt72T7P5hcL3.99