It’s time to admit – all of us have done something really crazy at some point in order to lose some weight “really quickly” – from buying gimmicky sauna belts to slashing down calories drastically aka crash dieting aka food deprivation. While sauna belts are exactly what we previously termed – “gimmicky,” crash dieting can prove counterproductive, sometimes affecting your health adversely. While it may seem logical to cut down as much food as possible in order to get lean, we bet you would regret the decision later on. A weight loss diet should not be based on food deprivation because it can be ineffective, and all your hopes of fitting into that old pair of jeans would get dashed mercilessly. Most people think that getting on a diet to lose weight equals to food deprivation, and the more hungry and exhausted one feels while on the diet, more calories get torched! Completely wrong! If you ask people who have successfully lost weight, they would tell you that there’s no need to starve the whole day in order to get lean. Food deprivation is promoted by certain fad diets that only work for a short period of time and once you come off them, you tend to put on more weight. To lose weight successfully, one needs to be in calorie deficit, eating just the right amount and the right kind of food to successfully drop all the extra pounds, and there’s no need to punish or deprive the body of food. In fact, eat the right kind ...