Story of a Fad Dieter

Megan Oglivie has been on 55 diets in the past 56 weeks. Some of them lasted only a day and some others only a few hours.

She commented to the Toronto Star:

"Depending on the diet, I have either eschewed or embraced carbohydrates, given up or munched on fruit, rejected or indulged in eating meat. I have counted calories and counted steps. I have tried miracle soups and miracle sprays. I have put my faith in fat-busting foods, from apples to coconuts, lemonade to olive oil."

She's tried the South Beach Diet, Sonoma Diet, Hamptons diet amongst others. But her findings of the year-long diet-fest is that the "diet industry is a muck-filled morass, difficult to traverse, filled with false hopes and fake lifelines."

During Megan's diet-trial she realised that many diets have health implications and that if you were not medically knowledgable you could have problems with them. For instance the Grapefruit Diet has it's side-effects as it allegedly impares the absorbsion of medicines.

So whatever diet you want to try, please make sure you get the opinion of a qualified medical practioner.