All our lives, every piece of advertisement or catalog engraves one thing in our minds; ‘the thinner, the better looking you are.’ The norm today is to be obsessed with losing weight, with the focus being placed on just your appearance and no importance being given to health.
Having made your mind up to lose weight, you consider the pros, the methods, and set yourself a proper plan to follow. You’re now ready to embark on your journey towards weight loss. But are you aware of the common pitfalls? It does not take long for a simple means to lose weight to transform into an ugly monster. It starts with educating yourself The most common and sought after method when it comes to weight loss is to cut down on your intake of calories. Some say that this can be achieved via a reduction in intake of fatty foods, whereas some claim that the answer is as simple as cutting down on overall consumption of food. The commencement of your expedition into the deep sea that is weight loss could result in a disaster if done with little to no knowledge. It is of utmost importance to understand that no results are achieved overnight. As with everything, this process too requires constant effort and hard work. Starving yourself every day of the week in order to see dramatic results is the worst possible way to go about it. The dark side of weight loss: Eating disorders You are on your way to your dream destination, a small island named ‘weight loss’, without any directions or guidance as to how you will reach there. Ignorance will lead you to believe everything that people say, and it won’t be long before you find yourself on the bad side of the island. An eating disorder is a psychological problem that comes about by forcing yourself to have abnormal or damaging eating habits. This includes eating too much or eating too little. There exist three types of eating disorders; anorexia, bulimia and binge eating. Anorexia is when you viciously constrict your diet and are fearful of gaining too much weight. Whereas on the other hand, bulimia is the use of methods such as excessive exercising or intentional vomiting in order to release the foods that you falsely think will result in you gaining weight. Binge eating, as the name itself, suggests, refers to a dramatic spike in the consumption food. And as we all know, too much of anything can be harmful.
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