Are weight loss diets worth it? Let’s find out

Raise your hand if you have come across different diets on your journey to weight loss. Whatever may be your fitness goal, there’s no shortage of weight-loss diets on the internet. While some help you lose weight, others can end up creating health problems that become hard to shed. Not all diets are one size fits all or the healthiest.

Health Shots reached out to Juily Wagle, an ISSA USA Certified Nutritionist, to help us understand the kind of fad diets that are not for you if you are trying to lose weight.

Weight loss diets that claim more than they deliver

Wagle lists down the diets that should not be the ideal choice for you if you are trying to lose weight:

Keto diet

About the keto diet, which is widely followed by people, here’s what Juily Wagle recommends. “This is quite a common choice for people who want to lose weight but I would generally not recommend this, especially for those with thyroid. The Keto diet is known to aggravate the thyroid by putting your body under stress,” she says. Plus, carbs are also equally important and should be consumed in the right amount. A super low carbohydrate diet tends to show higher cases of side effects, including constipation, headaches, fatigue and much more.

Keto is unsustainable in India where carbs are a norm. You don’t need keto to lose weight. Keto weight loss is harder to maintain in the long run. You are going to have occasions where you may…