HAVE you run out of time to get slim for summer? Here are some weight-loss tips that are even more unhinged than the usual nonsense.
Go on a diet you have no chance of sticking to
Invent a totally unrealistic diet such as only eating one apple a day. Then wonder why you can’t stick to it and start binge-eating kebabs and entire blocks of cheese from the fridge. (Answer: your body does not want to die.)
Train super-hard at the gym
Go mental at the gym in the few days left before your holiday as if your frantic exercise will burn off the fat there and then. It won’t, but you may avoid feeling self-conscious at the beach by suffering a horrific injury and having to cancel your holiday.
Wear a lot of black
Not really losing weight, but black clothes are widely believed to be ‘slimming’. You’ll be desperately hot and sweaty in the sun, and it also has the downside of making you look like a Goth, ISIS executioner or, worst of all, a jazz buff.
Consult the Daily Mail
The Mail is the bible of dubious dietary advice. Convince yourself you’ll soon be as skinny as a supermodel if you adopt some logic-free diet that consists of kale soup on Tuesdays and Thursdays, banana sandwiches for the rest of the week and 15 steaks and 75 fried eggs at the weekend.
Find a deadly weight-loss method on the internet
Spend £120 on dodgy diet pills from Latvia which may contain tapeworms, dangerous levels of amphetamines, or both. If this doesn’t work, find a crackpot site about DIY liposuction surgery you can do in the bath with a bread knife, a bottle of TCP and a vacuum cleaner.
