What makes me lose weight may not make you lose weight.

What can improve my digestion to you can make it worse. Always be careful in advising people on how to lose weight .

And even dieticians and nutritionists sometimes go too far in dietary recommendations, proposing extreme diets or solutions that will not lead to their patients losing weight and maintaining a healthy weight forever.

Worse what circulates on the internet and that if we take it for “gold” risks ruining our health.

These 15 tricks to lose weight that I list below are among the tips that we have heard repeated many times , and that we have perhaps already tried with zero results or worse, a few extra pounds.

Here’s what to be wary of.

15 TRICKS TO LOSE LOSS THAT DON’T WORK

1. Fasting to lose weight.
   I’ve always been against skipping a meal if we’re hungry.
   The practice of fasting is not for everyone. It increases nervous hunger and triggers the compensatory binge at the next meal. It is also an excellent way to slow down your metabolism.
   You will tell me: but how, the intermittent fasting does not increase the metabolism?
   Opinions are still conflicting. I think the key is stress.
   If fasting stresses us, it is much better to learn to eat when we are hungry than to skip a meal.
2. Abusing pepper and chilli.
   Okay, spices help you lose weight, but be careful how many you use! Otherwise they cause digestive problems and various inflammatory disorders, with decidedly unpleasant results.
3. Go on a liquid diet.
   Bingeing on liquids and soups is the classic crash diet advice that causes immediate intestinal colic, stresses the kidneys and leads to electrolyte decompensation. The short-term effects are there. You lose weight and then resume everything with interest after a few days.
4. Getting too much fiber.
   A fiber diet that is slimming without affecting health should not exceed 30-35 grams of fiber per day. Too many fibers can cause digestive, intestinal and micronutrient absorption problems. Avoid all those diets where you fill up on fruits and vegetables for lunch and dinner with whole grains.
5. Salad for lunch.
   Replacing your carbohydrate lunch (pasta and rice) with mixed green salad to cut calories isn’t a great move. Better to “feed” the salad with boiled legumes or boiled cereals, low-fat cheese, natural tuna or eggs. Instead, avoid sauces and pickles.
6. Vegetable oils.
   Abounding in vegetable oils instead of butter is neither a healthy indication nor an indication for weight loss. It all depends on the oils! If extra virgin olive oil and coconut oil are a green light, I wouldn’t put my hand on the fire on canola oil, sunflower oil, hemp oil, soybean oil and corn.
7. Doing diets without calorie counting.
   As I have often said, calories are not a diktat, but diets that often boast of being calorie-free lack an essential macronutrient, for example, carbohydrate-free protein diets.
   The trick is to push yourself to eat less by cutting out carbohydrates or fats. To be avoided in the same way as strictly low-calorie diets.
8. Have small, frequent meals .
   Another commonplace that is not for everyone. Some are happy to split meals and eat little but often, others may feel like they don’t eat enough and end up overeating or overeating.
9.  The tear of the weekend.
   Dieting from Monday to Thursday and bingeing the last three days of the week causes overweight and is not a healthy way to relate to food. Those who do it tend to gain weight.
10. Skip breakfast: breakfast yes or breakfast no?
    I rate breakfast, but I would never advise people to force themselves to eat when they don’t feel the need. If you have a closed stomach in the morning, avoid eating. Conversely, always have breakfast.
11. Eat fat-free foods.  Fear of fats is one of the worst things we can do to our metabolism, which uses those fats to create cholesterol, a precursor to steroid hormones, and to absorb fat-soluble vitamins, for example.
12. Avoid animal proteins.
    It is one thing to make a moral choice, it is quite another to choose a vegetarian diet convinced that you will lose weight. It depends on what you choose: soy products, vegetable oils, the gluten excess of certain vegan meat and cheese substitutes, the excess of seeds, make many vegan and vegetarian dishes unbalanced from the point of view of fatty acids. essential, and generally not very nutritious.
    The so-called noble proteins (eggs, meat, fish, cheeses) are very important for having adequate nutrition. They are not essential, of course, but be careful to reduce them drastically.
13. Gum, candy and lollipops or diet sodas .
    Anything to not feel hungry, right? Wrong. These pseudo-foods stimulate gastric juices, increase the risk of intestinal bloating, digestive poverty and metabolic syndrome.
14. The detox .
    The detox diet, with juices and centrifuged is the new business after the gluten-free diet. The minestrone diet is worth mentioning. The effect is the same, the metabolism worsens, the liver gets tired, other than detoxification!
15. The eight glasses of water : they call it aquaholism , or the tendency to drink not out of thirst, but because it was recommended to us. You drink it when you are thirsty, and no more.
    You drink so much that you pee every 4-5 hours and no more. A sign that we are drinking too much? Transparent pee and a tendency to go to the toilet too often (and get up at night).