mistake that people really make when they want to lose weight is that get on these crash

diets, these fad diets which don't work in the long run. Initially they might loose oodles

of weight but very soon they see it coming back in more. So, ideally I would definitely

not recommend anyone to go on these crash and fad diets. But lot of eating disorders

we have seen where people have this binging syndrome where they eat all that they want

at one go and then what they try to do is try to get it out of their system by inducing

vomiting. This is actually called bulimia, where they tend to eat a tub of ice cream

at one go and get it out of their system. That of course is associated with a psychological

problem, it is definitely an eating disorder. Another thing is anorexia, a condition where

people don't eat at all, because they feel the minute they eat anything at all, they

are going to gain weight. And they are so stringent about not gaining weight that they

are so scared to eat. But, that again is not a normal phenomenon and one should not indulge

into something like that. What's important to do is to eat small frequent meals through

the day, the right kind of food, the right combination of food compromising on no nutrients.

Its important to take all the nutrients in the right quotient coupled with exercise and

adequate sleep, I think would give them the results that they are looking for. What people

seldom come and ask us is they are so scared that once they come to us for weight loss,

we are never going to allow them to eat anything at all. what I personally believe is that

if a patient is starving on a diet, the diet is not correct for the patient or the person.

Now, its not that the person is never going to eat a probably a hamburger all his life,

of course he is going to eat it, but its just that when you get aware, more conscious of

what you are eating, you probably do not indulge in hamburger with french fries and mashed

potatoes and butter and noodles and all of that. You will just probably cut off half

of the hamburger or a smaller portion rather than having a large size portion of the same

or become indulgent in junk you. You become more conscious of what you eat.