On Sunday of September 12, 2010 my mother and sister decided to go on the all liquid diet. Driven by the need to loose weight, they will stay on this diet for an entire week and then immediately start weight watchers. I have tried to tell them that this diet isn't good for them and how they need all of their proteins, caolries, and carbs.
Liquid diets require you to drink pratically all liquids, all day, and for breakfast and lunch and dinner. But of course there are other ways to do a liquid diet. You eat less calories so you burn more. This really isn't a good dietary choice because you lose weight extremely fast, which isn't always good.
Liquid diets, like most, lack in the daily nutrition that your body needs. Side effects include: fatigue, dizziness, hair loss, gallstones, cold intolerance, electrolyte imbalance, and heart problems. Also, because of lack of fiber, you can experience constapation and other digetsive problems and loss of lean body mass.
For these reasons, and the fact that my mom won't allow mw to do it, I have chosen not to participate in the liquid diet with them. I need my energy for school, which isn't much energy, and the fatigue the liquid diet causes would make my situation worse. But when they start the weight watcher, I'll join because provides the daily amount of nutrition needed a day.
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