5. GOING GLUTEN-FREE
The verdict is in. Unless you have celiac disease (that’s only 1% of the population), cutting gluten won’t help you shed pounds.
6. CUTTING YOUR CALORIES BY MORE THAN HALF Cutting your calories severely will help you drop pounds in the short term. But when you eat less than 70% of the calories you need per day, you lose muscle mass instead of fat.
7. STICKING TO ONE FOOD GROUP The cabbage soup diet, the grapefruit diet, the candy diet: cutting all but one of the food groups may make you lose weight. Unfortunately, super-restricted diets are almost impossible to maintain. They also make you more likely to binge once you go back to eating regularly.