Diets Our Bodies Will Love

Do diets really work? Team Marie Claire Malaysia tries out three diets and reports in how effective they were

- Jerrica Leong

Google up “diets to lose weight” and you will be overwhelmed by an avalanche of diet information. Not only will you find an excess of best and worst diet suggestions, you’ll also be inundated with quick diet tips. With so many new diets cropping up, it is tough to pick one that will suit you best.

Diets require a huge amount of discipline as it is hard work to maintain the routine. How well a diet works will also depend on your body’s ability to metabolise fat. For example, some Keto dieters can easily force their body into Ketosis while others just can’t get their bodies to kick into this state. Researchers found that this is due to how bodies process fat. Therefore, the Keto Diet will not work for people whose bodies have difficulty processing fat. With that discovery in mind, Team Marie Claire decided to take on the challenge of not only maintaining a strict dietary regime but also understanding one’s body better. In the name of research, we tried three different diets over the course of a week: the gluten-free, intermittent fasting and clean eating diets.

The Gluten-free diet