Fast Facts on Losing Fats
Tipping the scales and string bikinis just don’t go together, and with a busy lifestyle, a fast diet may be the only way to go. But how do you nip those unsightly bumps in Guinness record time?
In this day and age wherein things go at lightning speed – supersonic jets, bullet trains, super computers – diets are likewise fast-tracked. The paradox of fast-paced living leaves little time for ourselves. Lose-weight-fast schemes are thus sprouting to address the problem of fitting in that little black dress for Friday night dinner.
Getting slim quick is far from easy, especially if you’ve just given birth. Moms of newborns can’t simply go on a fast diet as caloric intake affects milk production. So how did Angelina do it? Aside from being inherently slim (read: she was favored by the gods), she breastfed her babies. Breastfeeding burns up to 600 calories a day, the equivalent of what you use up in a two-hour aerobic exercise. Although there is currently disagreement on this issue, many moms either of celebrity or plain Jane status still swear that breastfeeding helps shed the ungainly post-partum weight. Plus, there’s the definitive fact that a mother’s milk is best for her baby.
Sometimes, going on a fast diet is necessary. Adrien Brody in The Pianist had to look the emaciated Jew, Wladyslaw Sypilman, who barely survived the purging of his race. Shedding the pounds was essential to convincingly show his real-life character’s fate during the Holocaust. Brody’s crash diet involved eating small portions of protein-rich food and steamed vegetables; fats and carbohydrates were avoided. Losing 30 pounds in six weeks paid off when Brody won the Best Actor Oscar for this portrayal.
Indeed, Hollywood and fast diet go together like Oreos and milk. Going back to Angelina, she shed her extra maternity baggage for her role as a CIA agent on the run in Salt. Eating only organic food, she purportedly lost 21 pounds in 21 days. Also referred to as the detox diet, this regimen trims and slims while ridding the body of toxic elements. The secret is in going au naturelle: whole, unrefined foodstuffs contain significantly less chemicals than processed products. Additionally, plant-based fares are rich in nutrients but are low in calories. Obviously the healthier choice, a number of health buffs are crossing to the greener side of eating. But as long as Big Macs remain available at every street corner, going vegan would forever be a battle of wills.
However way you go on your fast diet: protein-rich, carbo-loading, going organic – the bottom line is this is may only be short-lived. Each of the nutrients plays an important role in developing the body; depriving the system of any of these elements may hazard one’s health. And although a fast diet may achieve our immediate purpose, we must be cautious of its long-term effects.
Then again, with the plummeting economy and unemployment on the rise, a fast diet regimen may no longer be necessary.