THIS NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED

Hello everybody, I hope you are all well and enjoying your journey's, whether they are to lose or gain weight

I feel that something really needs to be said to warn certain people. I'm talking about everyone on here who is thinking or is even already started losing weight using Total Food Replacement Diets, Very Low calorie Diets every single quick fix gimmick out there.

You've all seen them, especially here in the UK. After Christmas adverts of puddings, chocolates and cakes, in comes more adverts telling us that we are all lard *kitten* and need to start losing weight!

DIET CHEF
LIGHTERLIFE
LIPOTRIM
THE SPECIAL K DIET

The list goes on.

Do you know what all these diets have in common? they will all make you fatter.

I was addicted to quick fixes and fast weight loss. 14lbs in one week? NOOO WAAAAY!! yes way, and I paid the price for it.

I just want to give my experience of what happens, not just to me but to EVERYONE. I kid you not.

I used Lipotrim and Lighterlife for about 2-3 years, I became so dependent on them because I thought this was the only way I could lose weight. I'm lazy, have a bad relationship with food, so a diet where all I had to consume was liquids 3 times a day including 4 liters of water seemed ideal to me. No more worrying about what I was gonna make for dinner, just some powder in water. How nutritious! -_-

Over time the weight was falling off faster than me on roller blades, it was so fast that I can't even remember how small I actually was. According to everyone around me, I looked extremely ill. Can you blame them? my skin turned grey, my dark circles turned into damn black holes! bones popping out of everywhere, my teachers thought I had cancer!

I fainted every single day, stubbornly carrying on. It was kinda like coke to a druggie for me. I didn't poop for months..can you imagine that? NO FRICKEN POOP!! my periods stopped, I ruined both intestines, them being clogged up with poop and all :P

I finally got to target in about 6 months. I had 80lbs to lose. It was time to eat again. I was terrified! I actually started crying.

For two weeks I was reintroducing food into my system, but I still gained weight. Until I ended up close to my starting weight. These diets do work, they make you lose weight but no matter what YOU WILL GAIN YOUR WEIGHT BACK.

Stop kidding yourself. 'Oh I know what I'm going to do when I get off, I'll eat healthy, no more chocolate for me, I'll excersise' Blah di blah di ****ing blah. That's what I said, and look where it got me.

Whatever reasons we got fat, whether from being gluttons, depression, genetics, we have to work hard to get what we want.

You want 2 biscuits? sod that, I'm gonna eat 6 apples!

A diet is strenuous but a lifestyle is more welcoming.

Your body will thank you for it in the end.