You just want to lose the last 5 kgs and nothing seems to be working, but then, time is also running short because you just want to get into that little black dress for the New Year’s party. When you?re trying to lose weight in a short period of time, taking shortcuts may seem convenient, and we may want a fast weight loss experience even though we took years to gain all that weight. When you want to look a bit leaner in just a few days, losing at least 5 kg may become a desperation and before desperate times push you to try desperate measures, and you get tempted to try out ways that can actually do more harm than good, we have taken it upon ourselves to tell you that there are right ways to lose weight and then there are absolutely worst ways to shed extra pounds, and in this post, we list down 10 worst ways to lose 5 kgs, and why you should not even think about trying them.
1. Starting on Restrictive Diets: These are short-term weight loss diets that hardly work and are highly restrictive, not to mention “unhealthy.” For example, on cabbage diet, you can only have cabbage soup and nothing else for days together! Another absurd diet, “the ice cream diet” on which you can have a sweet treat like ice cream daily! These are called fad diets which cut out entire food groups and if anything, you lose major sources of nutrition that these food groups provide. With these fad diets, you can get rid of water weight at the most, not real fat. With ...