Ah, I wish I could be like this : how many times looking at the VIP on the red carpet have we envied her line and beauty? How many times have we copied the drastic diets of famous people in the hope of looking like them?

And how do we feel when in the newspapers we find the singer or actress we once envied in a photo where she appears with cellulite or extra pounds?

A sly smile, a pitying expression and a few acid comments escapes them all.
Do you really believe that miracles exist? That show business people don’t get entangled like everyone else by promises of absurd drastic diets? Maybe just in time to shoot a movie or attend the Oscars?

Instead, the reasoning we should do is the opposite: if it happened to them, it could happen to me too.
And in this case there is no half joy of the common sickness. Think of the actresses Mischa Barton or Kate Winslet, the singers Lady Gaga, Beyoncé, Britney Spears. Think of singers who from thin have become very thin in a short time , and who in an even shorter time we see overweight again. 

But how, with all the money they have, with an entourage of people at their service, is it possible that celebrities don’t know how to eat well?

The answer, evident for all to see, is: no. Celebrities are also victims of the so-called yo-yo effect. Blame for drastic and often far-fetched diets. One more reason to be wary of crash diets, those that promise you the loss of a pound a day. Yet this does not happen. We fall and we fall with all the shoes.

We know it’s not the ultimate solution to our overweight, but we prefer to try. After all, what does it cost us?
Well, something actually costs us.

Strict diets: why be wary?

As we have seen, very few people are immune to crash diets. The lean ones in general.
Whether they are rich or poor, all people with weight problems sooner or later stumble on a fad diet, an English term that means fake diet.

Unfortunately, crash diets are seldom the solution to the problem. Often in addition to not solving the problem of weight, problems create others. For example, they push us to fluctuating eating behaviors, compulsive binges, periods in which intense physical activity alternates with the total absence of movement.

And especially after the age of thirty or forty, the body presents us with the bill.

A metabolism slowed down by too many diets, so you are afraid of eating, practically living and breathing, and you continue to cut calories in the hope that this time the trick will work.

On Dcomedieta I met many people who told me they had arrived at a siding.
I explained to them what the solution was, but nine out of ten people don’t like it. If you are curious *, I’ll explain it here. 

So, when you open a magazine and find tips on crash diets that have made celebrities lose tens of kilos, ask yourself a few questions.

Crash diets: what to do instead?

If we don’t want to see the harmful yo-yo effects on us that celebrities seem to carry around with dignity and indifference (only to resort to the surgeon), let’s try to learn from their mistakes, so that they are not ours too.

• No to crash diets that promise you to lose fifteen pounds in two weeks.
• Choose the diet that seems most practical for your lifestyle: you will not abandon it on the second day.
• Prefer a diet where a maintenance plan is also described, which allows you to eat without getting hungry and at the same time not to regain the weight lost.
• Choose a diet with menus that do not seem extreme: it is useless to eat roots for two weeks and then from the third one go back to fast food with the eye of a psychopath.
• Try to make your own (and keep) good habits, so as not to stress your body anymore.
  Let’s reserve the fifteen heel shoe for the special evening; we do gymnastics at least three times a week; we avoid eating at all hours; we drink water and not beer or soft drinks; we eat more fruits and vegetables.
  These are all reasonable and healthy choices that will make us feel a little bit star.