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Crash diets always fail - here is the honest why

Crash diets always fail - here is the honest why

Eating almost nothing makes the scale drop fast, but most of that first loss is water, not fat. Your body also slows down just a little, and you get too hungry to keep it up, so the weight usually comes back.

12 Jul 2026 · Burnie Academy
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If you eat almost nothing, the weight will fly off and stay off.

mostly false

Mostly false. The first kilos are mostly water, real fat leaves slowly, and almost no one can starve forever. So the weight usually comes back.

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