If you're feeling slightly overwhelmed by the barrage of "New Year, New Me" messaging flooding your feeds this January - and maybe even starting to question whether you should try that super strict, pretty miserable-sounding fad diet you've seen TikTokers raving about - let me stop you there. As a Senior Health Editor with nearly a decade of industry experience, I've seen this narrative played out for years and can tell you now: it won't work.
Cutting out entire food groups won't work, making yourself slog through workouts you don't enjoy won't work, and taking supplements that you copied from an influencer online likely won't work. Why? Because none of these lifestyle tweaks are attainable - they're all too drastic, too all-or-nothing, too crash diet. And while you may feel that you need to take extreme measures to feel your best, I can assure you that the opposite is actually most effective.
