Unhealthy Weight Loss

Starvation = Unhealthy

A new page was published on ask the Personal Trainer website today.

A page dedicated to unhealthy ways to lose weight was a necessary addition to pages about nutrition, diets and supplements.

The page is (hopefully obviously) not trying to glorify unhealthy weight loss methods such as drugs, laxatives, starvation, purging and smoking but make people aware.

As a personal trainer I would think that many personal trainers, active, and health minded people would think that unhealthy ways to lose weight are common sense.

The fact is, many people have no idea about their own bodies or how they work.  While a personal trainer would easily know that smoking cigarettes is unhealthy even though it helps stay slim, many people probably do not.

The list is not 100% complete yet as there are new unhealthy practices to lose weight popping up on each new episode of any Hollywood gossip show.

The most common form of unhealthy weight loss is neglected from the page for a reason.  Fad diets are sometimes healthy and sometimes unhealthy.  The point of the website is to get people thinking past what they see in the media.

Just like certain subjects which aren’t taught or neglected in high school and are extremely important, like credit cards, the knowledge learned in P.E. class is long gone by the time most people are 20+ pounds overweight and are looking for a diet.

The goal of AskTheTrainer.com is to educate normal people who have fitness goals, to make the correct decisions when it comes to training, nutrition and supplements rather than force feed textbook information and selling one size fits all products.

Not touched in the page is bulimia or anorexia.  Purging and starvation are covered but there will be a whole page devoted to eating disorders in the future.  Research needs to be done or another professional needs to volunteer to help people who suffer from these conditions in the present, future or even the past.