Weight Loss Health Disaster!!

When it comes to health and fitness solutions, you absolutely need to choose something that is going to keep you fit strong and healthy in the short and long term.

You need something that adheres to basic principles and sound science.

There are lots of 'shiny object' solutions - things that shout out for your attention and often seem appealing at first glance.

Sometimes these can get people who are desperately in need of help to do something, but the consequences can be disasterous.

Other times these false hopes can derail an otherwise sensible approach that might not quite be optimal, but is still healthy.

I warned people about such 'solutions' in my nutrition talk.

I've had clients who are recovering from such choices.

Yes people will lose weight, but according to an article in the Daily Mail last week, one company's 500cal a day, meal replacement only diet, has been linked to "memory loss, heart attacks....and even death".

Apparently this has 15,000 followers in the UK - and that is absolutely crazy!!

One person is quoted as achieveing great weight loss but after being on the £66 per week diet for 8 months, she now blames it for causing "muscle pains, poor vision, memory loss and tiredness".

Is it any wonder!

Apparently this regime is endorsed by a celebrity chef - again ridiculous! A chef, someone who loves food, recommending an approach in which you consume no real food!

It's like me as a Personal Trainer recommending a fitness solution that requires no exercise!

The article went on describing an obesity expert blaming the death from a heart condition of someone who had followed the diet for 6 months, on losing too much weight too fast and that this had reduced the lean tissue in her heart.

Also a dentist talked of how he has experienced and had to treat patients for the deterioration of their dental health due to not eating real foods.

Other cases have reported hair loss and menstrual disorder, and problems learning to cope with real foods again.

Again my take is that this type of approach is absolute madness. It makes about as much sense as cutting off a limb to see a lower number on the scale!

It's your health and your life. You and your family deserve to have you live it to the fullest, and that is what a tried and tested approach to exercise and nutrition will achieve.

Seek out a true professional and you will be amazed at real results!

Be an Everyday Athlete!

Steve Cork
www.sussexbootcamps.co.uk
www.everydayathletes.co.uk