When diets go wrong Part 2

The occasional documentary strand of "When something-something Goes Wrong" is back for another bite on BBC3. This time around it's actress Mikyla Dodd of Hollyoaks fame who takes a look at what can and does go wrong when people try diets that aren't made up of eating healthily and taking regular exercise.

Over the years Mikyla has dealt with her own weighty demons by losing 11 stone, so she knows a thing or two about diets. She takes a tour through a whole range of dieting disasters as she discovers the dangers of diet pills; talks to those whose diets gave them saggy skin and smelly sweat; and meets those whose extreme dieting put them under the knife, brought on seizures and made their life an addictive hell.

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[marky77]

"300 calories a day - practically a starvation diet".

Um, a starvation diet is actually considered to be anything less than 900cals a day :/.

[mcdowair]

thanks for posting :)

[XxMariahPANICxX]

@seilahqlq1 YES. Thankyou c:

[seilahqlq1]

@XxMariahPANICxX Was it Dawn Porter in "Super slim me"?

In this documentary the 'celebrity doctor' said her fat percentage was obese; and real doctors that work with athletes considered her healthy before she started the experiment.

[lisaannejane2]

@XxMariahPANICxX I totally agree with you. Never trust a celebrity to tell the whole story and their so called nutritionists are probably quacks.  They never admit to how much they smoke and the side effects they suffered from. There are no quick fixes that work. You need to change your eating habits for life and exercise if you want to lose weight.

[nathalush]

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[Futrdreamer]

@AlekNovy actually starvation mode is not a Fraud. It is a way for our bodies to retain fat and nutrients that might be needed at a later date. If our bodies think that we are not going to be able to eat for awhile it is going to want to save as much nutrients as possible in order to keep us functioning.

[XxMariahPANICxX]

I hate it when they say: "But the celebrities had diet supervision"

Have you ever heard the garbage that comes out of most "doctors" or "nutritionists" in places like hollywood or LA? I'm not sure what show exactly but it was an english documentary similar to this where she was about 5'5" and I think about 120lbs and the weight-loss specialized "doctor" said she was almost in the obese catagory.

Just because a celebrity did it doesn't make it smart.

[AlekNovy]

"starvation mode" IS A FRAUD concept in most cases

It is a bullshit concept that dieticians invented in order to fear-monger people into feeling they need a dietician to lose weight "the right way". A fattie losing weight by eat low-calories is NOT in starvation mode.

That only happens to skinny people in war-torn countries with famines, not with a fatties skipping a few meals.

[53memyselfandi]

Someone's going to look at my youtube history and think I'm a low self-esteem, weight-watching twig.... I'm watching this documentary after having finished two others about body dismorphic disorder and living with a size zero body... :P

[truexVL]

@marky77 seriously who cares ? and how do u even know :D ?