Weight loss is a universal concern among youths. People try various diet plans and fasting to curb their extra calories. Several diets have gained popularity in the past years for their weight loss benefits. Many of these diets focus on a particular nutrient or food or drink.

Water Fasting is making waves in the popular diet world once again. This is a type of fast that restricts everything except water. It has become more popular in recent years as a quick way to lose weight.

A water fast is true to its name: Its a fast during which all food and drink except water are restricted. That means no coffee, no tea, no alcohol, no zero-calorie sports drinks, or any other beverage. This also means no food. Water fasts typically last 24 to 72 hours. Medically supervised water fasts may last up to 40 days. For your safety, you should not try to fast for longer than 3 days without medical clearance and supervision.

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When I did eat, I did it so fast that I didnt taste the food (Picture: Jessica Spencer)

At one of my lowest points with my eating disorder, just thinking about food was enough to induce a panic attack.

I was 21 and had spent years feeling ashamed of myself for being overweight. Now I was avoiding eating until it hurt, suffering painful stomach cramps from hunger and feeling like a failure for wanting food.

When I did eat, I did it so fast that I didnt taste the food. Overwhelming heart palpitations would then take hold, lasting anywhere up to an hour, as I got incredibly upset with myself for not being dedicated to losing weight.

Whilst awful and scary, these episodes at least helped me to admit what I had known for seven years: that I was overweight with an eating disorder.

I was 14 when I decided I wanted to be a presenter on television, but the only ones I saw were thin and glamorous. In contrast, I wore ugly, loose clothing to hide my fat.

I thought that if I wanted the job, I needed the body and believed losing weight would make everything easier.

After learning about calorie counting online, I cut my daily intake over the space of two months until it was eventually halved.

Proudness bubbled in me as everyone marvelled at my sudden thinness. I was thrilled with my progress. For the first time in months, I felt pretty.

There was just one issue every time I stood up, I got overwhelmingly dizzy. An instant headache formed and my sight momentarily blacked out.

These episodes were incredibly scary. When I brought it up, my grandmother told me straight that I wasnt eating enough so I tried to eat more.

After a couple of months, however, things went in the opposite direction.

I found I couldnt control myself, specifically around chocolate, and ate massive amounts.

All the pride I had felt was replaced by yet more shame. I stopped counting calories, afraid to know how much I had eaten and from that point until I was in my early 20s, I found myself in a cycle, swinging between under-eating and binge-eating.

I was so upset at how out of control I felt around chocolate that I began searching online for answers. That was how I discovered binge-eating disorder, a mental illness where people regularly lose control and eat large quantities of food.

The term binge-eating made me feel disgusted. I thought I just needed to practice self-control and forced myself to cut down again.

I started studying for a media degree but my anxiety and depression were both ramping up. I felt out of place as the fattest person in my course and in my first semester, I failed a module I had barely attended due to my worsening mental health.

By 19, therapy seemed like the only option. I spoke about my feelings being fat but avoided discussing my habits around food and my continued reliance on chocolate.

Periods of under-eating lasted weeks while my binge-eating could last months. And while binging, I put a lot of pressure on myself, telling myself I was worthless for being fat.

The idea that I had an eating disorder had been floating around my head but I wouldnt let myself accept it. I thought only thin people had disordered eating and my look didnt fit the part.

I was convinced I was too fat to be ill and besides, losing weight was beneficial for my health and career. This wasnt an illness, I told myself not eating was self-care.

Everything came to a head one day when I was at the hairdresser. She asked me to stand, I fainted and when I came round, I was screaming for my mother.

My BMI was bordering on healthy yet I was miserable and tired of being consumed by my weight and food. If dropping dress sizes wasnt enough, I realised I would never be thin enough until I was dead.

Exhausted, I went to my GP and told him everything.

As I started speaking, it felt as if space was opening in my chest and I could finally breathe again. I left my appointment armed with a new prescription for anti-depressants and a diagnosis: Other Specified Feeding and Eating Disorder, known as OSFED.

The condition is a catch-all for anyone with disordered eating who doesnt fit the criteria of other illnesses, such as anorexia or bulimia. Accounting for 47% of all cases, it is the most common eating disorder diagnosis. Over half a million people in the UK are believed to suffer from OSFED.

Restricting calories to lose weight was a symptom of anorexia, but losing control around food chocolate in my case was indicative of binge-eating disorder. For me, OSFED came from this mixture.

I educated myself on eating disorders and stopped engaging with destructive online communities that promoted thinness. I no longer counted calories, repeatedly telling myself You are allowed to eat like a mantra, and it helped to stop the palpitations.

I also took a year out of my degree to focus on myself. Removing the pressure of my studies helped immensely as it gave me extra time to relax by indulging in my hobbies, such as blogging and poetry.

The anti-depressants kicked in within the first couple of months, too and I gradually came to feel more at ease in my body, even starting to appreciate it.

When you are thin and you lose weight, people worry. But when I started to slim down, I was congratulated for taking care of myself.

Having an eating disorder is an awful experience and I have no doubt that being overweight made it worse. The shame I felt at trying and failing to reach a healthy weight was constant.

Under-eating was never sustainable and anything I lost usually snuck back on just as quickly.

To lose weight in a healthy way we should turn to doctors, not the internet what I learned online about calorie counting developed into a seven year illness. Weight loss is as simple as eating well and exercising in moderation anything else is punishing yourself.

It has been four years since I was diagnosed with OSFED. While I sometimes still look to chocolate for comfort, I no longer binge. I stop to consider whether my urge to eat it is a reaction to stress or a normal craving. When its stress, I look at other ways to relax, like reading or watching a film.

I have also recently taken up running but my focus is on my fitness not my weight. Getting fit is about trying to make life easier on my body, not harder.

No matter what the scales say, I have learned to appreciate my body and everything it does to keep me alive.

Recovery is a journey about choosing to live and every day, I choose recovery.

For more information and support on any of the issues raised in this article, visit eating disorder charity Beats website, or ring the helpline on0808 801 0677.

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Name: Sheri ShawAge: 40 Occupation: Assistant Dean for Student SuccessHometown: Wilmington, North Carolina

Start Weight: 298 poundsEnd Weight: 190 poundsTime Running: 11 months

Running has always been a component of my life. My older brother, Eugene Shaw, was an avid runner in high school in Decatur, Illinois, and I emulated him. So I joined the junior high track and field teams to stretch myself competitively.

In my teens and 20s, I could just get up and run, doing 5Ks, 10Ks, and even half marathons with ease. But as I approached my late 20s and 30s, joint painwhich I blamed on old high school volleyball injuriesbecame a problem for me, and my running habit slowed.

But really, it was because of my inability to manage my time due to the increased pressures to demonstrate professional success. I had begun to grow in university administration, and I became focused on work and less on managing my workout schedule. After consistent late nights and coffee runs, the weight began to creep up. Mentally, I talked myself out of trying to go for a run.

My workouts turned into heavy lifting and low impact cardio, but it didnt fill the void left by running. I loved the feeling of lacing up my shoes, popping on my run-tracking app, turning on my music playlist, and going outside. I missed it, and my weight showed that.

Before I knew it, I had gotten up to 298 pounds in September 2019. At that time, I was having surgery to remove scar tissue that had developed from donating my kidney in 2001. So once I recovered and was cleared to be active, I knew I wanted to get back out and run.

Before I could do that though, I needed to ease the joint pain. That month, I started my journey by changing my eating habits.

As a kidney donor, I have always avoided smoking and drinking, and eaten foods high in fiber. However, I consumed a lot of high-fat foods, fast food, caffeine, and sugar. That, along with the lack of exercise, pushed me to where I was.

When I started utilizing a food-tracking app, I gave up those foods and made more of an effort to put the right things in my body. Adding a little movement to those changes, I lost 40 pounds by the new year.

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To kick off 2020, I joined a friend and her family at Hilton Head Health, a weight loss retreat. This, I thought, would help me jumpstart my journey, and it did.

It got me excited about the process and to get my running back up, even if I had to start by walking a lot. Every other day, I was going out for two-mile runs coupled with a 30-minute Burn Boot camp workout. Slowly, I saw my endurance go up at the gym where I worked. I would hide the digital screens and focus on running through a song on my playlist.

I found, for me, that music helped me find my cadence and get lost in my runs while heavy beats kept me going at a good pace. It also helped with time. When I started, I tried to run for an entire song. One song became two, then three, and then four. Four songs equaled a mile. I hadnt run a mile without stopping in over four years!

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For months, I stayed in that two-mile comfort zone, afraid of pains resurfacing from previous injuries (IT band, knee, and Achilles). That all changed during the coronavirus pandemic when a friend introduced me to virtual racing. With that, I turned to running three to five miles outside. I started out at 15-minute miles and am already up to 12-minute pace.

With the addition of running again, the weight continues to come off. Im currently at 190 pounds, and Im still going strong toward my goal of 170, the weight at which my doctors say I would be the healthiest for my kidney function.

Having lost more than 100 pounds, I feel like myself again. I am the size I was over 20 years ago, when I first started college. Ive found the runner I want to be again. These changes allow me to move my body with more ease and Ive noticed a return of my high activity level. Im even challenging myself to run for entire playlistsI recently made one that lasted for two hours, and I covered eight miles, my longest run in a long time.

For anyone out there that wants to make a similar change, my advice is to just lace up. I spent so much time talking myself out of running that I wasted precious time toward making myself feel better emotionally, physically, and personally. What I failed to see is that I could create a new runner profile that complemented who I am today rather than trying to be the runner I was in high school.

Also, dont compare your journey to anyone elses. Run for you. This is your race. Face it with grace at your own pace. There will be valleys, hills, setbacks, and roadblocks. Thats why the goal has to be forward motion; not matter how large or small, it is still forward progression. Yesterdays ceiling is tomorrows floor. Keep challenging yourself and keep growing.

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Strangely, we live in a world where everyone is expected to be 'perfect' but there's no such specific definition of being one. Specially, when a celebrity is concerned, they're always under scrutiny and whatever they do, makes them a target of trolls. Be it keeping silence on an issue or raising voice and putting forward their opinion, maintaining their personal life private or keep it as an open book for their fans, losing weight for a film or gaining weight due to pregnancy, celebs aren't spared from the demeaning comments by the trolls.(Also Read:Mouni Roy Flaunting A Diamond Ring In An Instagram Story Makes Us Wonder If She Secretly Got Engaged)

Motherhood is a bliss but it brings along post-pregnancy weight and postpartum depression. And for a celeb mom, it becomes even more difficult to deal with the post-pregnancy weight as being in scrutiny makes them the target of trolls. After Smriti Khanna, Mahhi Vij and Nisha Rawal, Deepika Singh Goyal revealed her story of body-shaming post embracing motherhood. Diya Aur Baati Hum fame, Sandhya bindani a.k.a., Deepika had embraced motherhood on May 20, 2017 and had welcomed a baby boy, whom she has named Soham. Since then, Deepika's life revolves around her little bundle of joy.

In an interview with The Times Of India, Deepika Singh Goyal revealed how she was trolled for gaining weight post the birth of her son, Soham. Recalling the negativity she had received on a birthday picture she had posted after embracing motherhood, Deepika said, "I have been trolled a lot on social media especially for my weight gain. After giving birth to Sohum I was 73 kgs and I had randomly shared a picture of mine without thinking much and it was my birthday, they started writing nasty stuff about me. They did not even think twice that it was my birthday."

Revealing how everyone had commented that she won't get any role or how bad she's looking, Deepika Singh Goyal continued, "They started saying you are such a big actress, you should have waited, now she won't get any role, nobody will take her in a lead role. Look at her how bad she is looking. But I took all those negative comments very seriously and that actually helped me to go to gym regularly. No matter, if I haven't slept at night or not. I took screenshots of all those comments and kept them as a wallpaper on my phone. Whenever I felt lazy these nasty comments helped me to hit the gym. I did cardio a lot and did cycling. I started enjoying working out and I started watching my diet. Ultimately, I proved them wrong."(Also Read:Rana Daggubati and Miheeka's Forest Theme Wedding Was Inspired by This Painting [Picture Inside])

Deepika Singh Goyal feels that it was easy for her to work out for abs during the time of her serial, Diya Aur Baati Hum. Revealing how things have changed now, Deepika added, "During Diya Aur Baati Hum's time it was easy for me to have abs but not right now. I know I can't go on low carbs and low sugar because that will have a toll on my body. Now, I don't restrict myself and eat what I want to and till the time I am hungry. I try to alternate as much as I can with healthy eating choices. Because of all this I have put on weight but people are not understanding and they are still bashing me for my weight gain. But this is not just restricted to social media, I think in real life also we have people who can't become you so they try to pull you down."

Deepika Singh Goyal had weighed herself on July 26, 2017, i.e., two months after giving birth to her son, Soham and she had weighed 72 kgs. With all her hard work, dedication and patience, Deepika had reduced to 56 kgs i.e., she had lost 16 kgs in 7 months. Sharing the following picture of her weight loss journey on Instagram in 2018, she had captioned it as "You dont have to go fast, you just have to go.(Also Read:Samantha Akkineni Shares A Beautiful Picture With Hubby, Naga Chaitanya, He Bathes Her In Flowers)

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We all stress over it, but most of us are plagued with it - if you're covering up because of your cellulite we've got some tips and tricks to reduce it without resorting to cosmetic surgery.

Just remember a large number of women in the world are in the same boat as you - as well as men suffering from the same issue. There's nothing wrong with cellulite, but if you want to reduce it there's a few things you can do.

Supermarket shelves are bursting with lotions, potions and pills that claim to beat cellulite, but you can keep it cheap and easy with the following tricks.

1. Dry Body Brushing

Start the day with dry body brushing. Before you turn your shower on, or get in the bath, lightly sweep a dry body brush all over start from your ankles and always brush in the direction of your heart. This will give your circulation a great boost and help eliminate toxins.

2. Blast with cold water

Blast your thighs with cold water before you get out of the shower to get blood flowing to the area.

3. Cellulite creams and lotion

The best cellulite creams that are worth your time and cash include Nivea Q10 Plus Goodbye Cellulite Gel-Cream 200ml, and, while it's more of an oil, Weleda Birch Cellulite Oil, is a good option.

When youre applying your body lotion (a cheap lotion is just as effective), massage it well into your thighs and other potentially dimply areas.

4. Foods to fight it

Cellulite is often caused by toxins (from a less than perfect diet) which reduce skin elasticity and slow down circulation so eat plenty of brightly coloured fruit and veg. Why? Because they contain the most antioxidants, which help our bodies to shed toxins.

ALSO READ: Eating too much rice with your meals could be fatal, experts claim

Berries

Berries are particularly good, so have a handful of either raspberries, strawberries, blueberries or blackberries on your cereal every morning.

Bananas and mangoes are renowned for boosting blood flow, which helps prevent cellulite, so tuck into those as often as you can, as well as papaya, which studies show helps prevent tissue damage under the skin.

Vitamin C

Foods rich in vitamin C are also excellent cellulite-busters because they boost levels of collagen in the skin, which promotes elasticity and keeps things firm and taut.

Skin-strengthening foods

Other skin-strengthening foods include oily fish, chicken, grapefruit, tomatoes, apples, spinach, carrots and avocados.

Diuretics

Finally, foods known as diuretics are also good at warding off cellulite. Diuretics basically make us pee a lot and also reduce bloating and fluid retention.

A build-up of fluid can sometimes trigger cellulite, so, along with drinking plenty of water, include diuretics in your diet. Try cucumber, celery, onions and asparagus.

In fact, many Hollywood A-listers swear by eating a plate of asparagus before a red carpet appearance because its so good at reducing bloating.

Green tea

While green tea hasn't been tested it has got a lot of recognition as being a treatment for weight loss. While losing fat isn't an immediate fix it does help reduce fat deposits. Try sipping on 2-3 cups a day - not to near bedtime.

...what not to have

Processed fatty foods, such as sausages, cheese, biscuits and cake, are particularly bad. Theyre often full of additives, salt or sweeteners, which can cause toxin-overload in the body.

ALSO READ: These natural foods will help you lose more weight faster

5. Exercise

Exercise wont get rid of cellulite entirely but it will help you lose weight, get your blood flowing and tone things up which all help banish that orange-peel look.

Cycling and jogging

Cycling and jogging are brilliant because they really target thighs, bottoms and hips, says celebrity personal trainer Cornel Chin.

Try squats

If you have cellulite on your bottom and thighs, squats and lunges are the best moves. You can do either anywhere and they only take seconds.

When you go to do a squat, stand with your feet hip-width apart. Keeping your weight in your heels (ie, dont lean forward), go to sit down on an invisible chair, so your bottom is roughly two feet off the ground. Then lift yourself back up and repeat. Keep your arms straight out in front to help you balance.

Repeat 20 times.

Lunges

For a lunge, stand with your feet hip width apart. With your hands on your hips, step forward on your left leg (so your feet are roughly three feet apart) and bend down so your front knee is bent and your back foot comes off the floor. Hold for a couple of seconds, then lift yourself up and bend down (lunge) again.

Repeat 15 times on each leg.

Kickboxing

Kickboxing is also good, so check out your local leisure centre for classes.

Also use a foam roller in your workouts. Massages also help with circulation and stimulating lymph flow.

6. Cellulite cups

This type of therapy uses a rubber section cup to stimulate blood flow. The idea is to create more oxygen and work out toxins by getting the blood to flow.

The suction and pressure can loosen the muscles too, and relieve pain, according to those who practice it.

7. Don't have caffeine

Some studies show caffeine can make cellulite worse, because of its effects on blood flow and getting oxygen and nutrients to skin tissue. So limit intake of coffee, tea and cola. Only have one or two cups, max, a day.

8. Stop smoking

Avoid smoking and alcohol both create toxins in the body, and booze is full of sugar. Finally, ditch sugar. It slows production of collagen in the skin (so its a good way to cut wrinkles and cellulite).

As well as all the usual suspects, its also in foods such as cereal, pasta sauces (have a look) and yoghurt.

What is cellulite?

Cellulite is a term used to describe the dimpled and uneven appearance of skin caused by fat deposits that are just below the skin.

Scientists don't actually know what causes cellulite, but it's believed to be related to the body's inability to get rid of toxin, fat and fluid. It becomes trapped under the skin and causes fibrous tissue to become hard, that is the dimpling effect we see.

Why do you get cellulite and what puts you at risk?

The puckering of skin happens when the layer of fat beneath the skin pushes against connective tissue and bulges, causing the orange-peel or cottage cheese appearance.

Excess weight doesn't help, as the fatter you are the more it pushes through the sub-dermal structures. So healthier diets plus exercise lower your risk of getting cellulite.

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This past January when Goop Lab premiered on Netflix, Gwyneth-devotees tuned in to binge watch the wellness entrepreneur (along with her loyal employees) test out everything from extreme cold therapy, psychedelic mushrooms, and a diet designed to mimic fasting that was said to lower ones molecular age (amongst its many benefits).

No one could have anticipated that the five-day program, known as ProLon, would soon become the go-to response to the Covid-cushion (the extra pounds acquired during months of hermetic indulgence during lockdown) for those who could afford $250 for five days of starvation rations.

The timing couldn't have been more fruitful. In the wake of social distancing, the social setwhose calendars are normally filled to the brim with events, cocktail parties, and dinners out every night of the weekwas now freed up to commit to five full days of a meal program that offers little-to-no wiggle room. In the absence of social obligations, and thus dietary obstacles, so came the fasting.

ProLon FMD, or Fasting Mimicking Diet, was developed by Dr. Valter Longo as a five day program low in proteins and sugars, but rich in healthy fats, that does exactly what the name suggests: It mimics the effects of fasting on the body, without actually forgoing food. Studies of the program have demonstrated that it helps promote autophagy, replacing damaged cells with functional new ones, and shifts the body into visceral or abdominal fat-burning mode, which is said to continue even after a return to ones normal diet.

The program is designed to make the body think it's in a fasting state, without actually requiring the participant to avoid food altogether. And while you do have three meals a day, and some days even have snacks, don't be fooledthe rations are small. Much like Paltrow, who documented each day of her experience on the program, Harry Slatkin attests that its no walk in the park.

Participants receive a five-day supply of food, and are instructed to drink no other beverages than water and herbal tea (coffee is discouraged). Day one provides about 1,150 calories and the subsequent four days hover around approximately 700. All meals are plant-based, and each day includes soups, bars, teas and supplements to ensure the participant still ingests essential micronutrients.

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Slatkin, who lost 12 pounds and was still able to play tennis during the program (in the Palm Beach heat, no less), remarks that you dont necessarily feel hunger, but the cravings were acute. The craving part is probably the part that does you in. This happened for me around the third day. I was missing food but yet not hungry, which is an odd feeling. By the end it felt very restrictive, he says.

Results are results, however. And ProLon FMD certainly boasts a variety of appealing benefits aside from inches off the waist. Not only have published studies shown that the program jumpstarts fat loss without affecting lean muscle mass, but it has also been shown to encourage healthy systolic blood pressure. ProLon users will report they feel greater energy, mental clarity, and focus as a result of the five-day meal program," says Dr. Will Hsu, chief medical officer of L-Nutra, the nutritional technology company that helped develop the program alongside Dr. Longo. "Typically, they also report that mindfulness about what they consume after they finish, able to control their portions immediately after their fast, and reported they felt more motivated to adopt a healthier lifestyle.

Benefits aside, Slatkin says you'll be happy when it's over. We celebrated with a glass of wine and literally it couldve been the cheapest wine known to manwe wouldve looked at it as if it was a Rothschild. I had horseradish as a condiment as if I was having caviar on my shrimp.

My own introduction to the ProLon FMD five-day program came after binging the entirety of Goop Lab. Even watching Gwyneth lament that the soups were not her favorite and that she was feeling low-energy, my interest was piqued. I wasn't necessarily trying to lose weight, but after months of traveling and indulgence, my system was in need of a reset. I wanted to feel a little more energetic and less dependent on my afternoon sugar fix.

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I started ProLon on Monday, March 9. You could say I was ProLon's first pandemic participantjust don't check me on it. The five days of soups, olives, crackers, and teas flew by. And unlike Gwyneth, I didn't feel like the soups were all that bad. If you are partial to savory rather than sweet, you won't really feel like the meals lack in flavor. I did however add a touch of nutritional yeast to the mix, per the recommendation of a dietician friend, for added B12.

I wasn't exercising save for a daily walk, but I didn't feel all that exhausted. Or hungry for that matterand I was around people who were eating regularly. That said, encroaching contagion does make one want to sit on the couch and eat girl scout cookies to cope, so I will admit to moments of temptation. I held out.

On day one and two, I did distinctly miss substantial food. The third day of the program has what felt like the least amount of foodand it was by far the hardest. I was definitely hungry. By day four I noticed less hunger and in general felt fantasticspritely energy and deep, restorative sleep. It was a palpable change to how I felt in the days before I started. Day five was more of the samethough with the program so close to done, I found myself eager for a real meal.

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Once I had finished, I didn't weigh myself, but my clothes fit differently. And I no longer felt compelled to anxiously nosh in the afternoon to kill time. My stomach shrank noticeably while on the program so once I finished, I had considerably more control over portion size at mealsand this effect lasted too.

Most importantly, I was craving less sugar and caffeine, both of which I leaned on pre-cleanse to cope with low energy and anxiety.

After I'd finished the program, I vowed I would do one again. But how soon is too soon? Dr. Will Hsu explains that if you want to maximize your results on the program, ProLon suggest doing it once a month for three consecutive months. "After completing the first three cycles, you can do one five-day cycle from time to time when you are looking for weight loss, cellular rejuvenation, metabolic balance and healthy aging."

It's no easy feat, but for a quick tune up it's pretty painless to consider another five days on ProLon. Particularly if restaurants are still off limits.

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About 18.9 million Americans 11.4% of the workforce either switch occupations or exit the labor force entirely each year. Many of these workers may have made the choice to leave their jobs for a higher-paying job, a better work environment, a career better suited to their skills or interests, or simply to retire. In other cases, these workers may not have had a choice and were either laid off or terminated.

But not all occupations have the same conditions, and conditions in some may encourage more workers to leave willingly or not. In these occupations, turnover rates far exceed the national average.

Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections program, 24/7 Wall St. identified the occupations Americans are most likely to lose. Occupations are ranked by their turnover, or separation rate the annualized share of workers projected to leave the occupation, either to retire or start a new career voluntarily or not. The separation rates on this list range from to 16.4% to nearly 25%. In the case of a tie, the occupation with more workers ranked higher.

The occupations with the highest turnover tend to share several characteristics. Some of them are physically demanding and can take a toll on workers health. Many of them require little in the way of formal education or training and involve simple, repetitive tasks. Additionally, in nearly every job on this list, the median compensation is well below the median salary across all occupations of $39,810. Here is a list of the 25 lowest paying jobs in America.

Other occupations on this list are simply becoming less common. Six of the 24 jobs on this list are projected to have a decline in overall employment from 2018 to 2028. Waning demand for these workers suggests that high turnover rates are more likely to be driven by layoffs.

It is important to note that these projections do not account for the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Recent fluctuations in economic activity due to the coronavirus outbreak and efforts to contain it, as well as government relief programs for employers and workers, are likely to have significant impacts on separation rates in coming years. Many of the occupations on this list are in the industries hardest hit by COVID-19, including accommodation and food services, arts, entertainment and recreation, and leisure and hospitality. Here is a complete list of the industries being devastated by the coronavirus.

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LONDON (REUTERS) - Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned on Monday (Aug 10) that Britain would be weaker if the union that binds its four nations were broken - his latest rejection of a growing push for Scottish independence.

Disagreements between Britain's constituent nations - Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England - over the handling of the coronavirus pandemic have damaged relations already badly strained by Brexit.

That is particularly the case in Scotland, which voted against leaving the European Union and where opinion polls show support for independence narrowly outweighs support for its 300-year union with England.

"The union of the United Kingdom is, for me, it's the greatest political partnership the world has ever seen," Johnson told broadcasters, when asked what the union meant to him.

"It would be such a shame to lose the power, the magic of that union."

Scotland voted 55 per cent to 45 per cent against independence in a 2014 referendum, but the Scottish National Party which runs the semi-autonomous nation wants another vote. Although voters there backed staying in the EU, Britain as a whole voted to leave.

Johnson's Conservative Party, which governs all of Britain and decides policy in areas that have not been devolved to Scotland, is a strong supporter of the union and dismisses any call for another vote.

However, Johnson and other senior ministers have visited Scotland in recent weeks, talking at length about the strength and benefits of the relationship.

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I started this year, as I do every year, with the goal of losing weight. As I made plans for my hot girl summer and festivals fitting back into my size ten cut offs, the pandemic took hold and like many, booze, takeaways and minimal movement was the approach I took to dealing with the stress. When the time came to buy a size 14 pair of jeans to actually leave the house in, my 18 24-year-old-self hated me. For her, a size 14 body was disgusting, unthinkable, and she fiercly kept her size eight one by restricting her calorie intake to triple figures and never, ever missing a workout.

But while in the intervening years Ive worked to disregard the idea that the only worthy body is a thin one and that mental and physical wellbeing is more important that the number on the scales, Id be lying if I said that girl didnt still keep me up at night, planning what I will (and wont) eat the next day. Id be lying if I said I wasnt disappointed in myself when a GP warns me to watch my weight because my BMI is tipping and that my old life of restriction and emotional turmoil seems like it would be worth it just to be thin again.

After his own brush with Covid, Prime Minister Boris Johnson was urged by doctors to lose weight, with the virus affecting those in the overweight or obese categories more severely. Johnson dutifully lost a stone in a month through exercise and moderating his calorie intake and has now suggested a number of measures to tackle rising obesity such as a ban on two-for-one deals on unhealthy food and adverts for fast food chains until after watershed.

But his third proposal to have major food chains include the calorie counts of dishes on their menus will be triggering for nutritionists and the eating disorders community who have been actively working to dismantle the damaging conditioning that obsessively counting calories over generations has caused.

We know that calories are not a comprehensive (or even a particularly good) measure of nutrition, but counting them can very quickly develop into an obsessive behaviour and a deeply disordered relationship with food that can take years to unpick.

Occasionally Ill half-joke that Id like just a touch of anorexia the same condition that, for a decade of my life, dominated every waking moment with numbers and deficit and how calories translated into seconds on the treadmill and how many I would have to do to burn off the porridge I ate beforehand. Lots of people seem to welcome the idea of calories on menus, if only to make their own disordered relationship with food easier to manage. For me, training myself not to constantly check the calories in a shop bought sandwich or a coffee has taken years and its only since Ive stopped doing it that Ive really been able to enjoy eating again.

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One of the major addictive pathways that is triggered by the sugar/fat combo in processed food is dopamine the reward hormone, says Functional Health Consultant and Health Coach

Fran McElwaine. Dopamine is also the hormone behind a lot of addictive behaviours such as gambling and gaming (and social media). Each little win (or like) floods the neural pathways with dopamine. Counting calories and macros can have the same effect every time the numbers add up, we get a dopamine hit and this can easily become addictive as we require more and more dopamine in order to get the same lift.

In so many cases, disordered eating is entirely a numbers game. What I was feeding my body while in the grip of anorexia had basically nothing to do with the nutritional value of it and everything to do with how the calories would add up and fit into my daily allowance, which, predictably, got lower and lower as I became more unwell.

We Need Empathy, Compassion And A Focus On Mental Health Not Calorie Counts On Menus

What calorie counting doesnt account for is that the ingredients in most processed foods are addictive and that every time we eat them we are re-setting our addictive pathways and dooming ourselves to cravings, says Fran.

The whole premise of the CICO model is that weight gain is our fault and that the food system is blame-free it is us that are either too greedy or too lazy too to conform to some sort of un-attainable ideal.

I was gutted when I learned that there were about 400 calories in a salmon fillet, and 250 in a standard avocado. These good foods that Id believed that I, as a good woman doing what good women do and striving for thinness, was allowed to eat had actually screwed me over by amounting to far more calories than Id normally allow on my plate. I didnt need to see the calorie count on a menu to know I would never order them in a restaurant again, despite them being dense in nutritional value and also, you know, delicious.

Registered Associate Nutritionist Jemma Joel says, Labelling the nutrients, instead of calories, in a dish could help people to understand more about the nutrients included. This could help us to mindfully choose a balanced meal when eating out. We should be aiming to get a balance of nutrients in each of our meals.

For example, pesto chicken on whole-wheat pasta with veggies = pesto (fat), chicken (protein), pasta (carbs), veggies (fibre, vitamins and minerals).

If you were to focus on the calorie content of this dish, it would be high because fat is higher in calories compared to protein and carbs - but it is still a nutritious dish. Again, its balancing out the portion size and focusing on hunger and fullness cues.

While calorie counting may seem an easy and straightforward option for someone looking to lose weight, the reality is effectively losing and maintaining weight isnt straightforward and theres far more to be said of the relationship between our mental health, body image and the number on the scales than Boris proposal takes into account. For people who maybe have no prior nutritional knowledge or have never tried to lose weight before, to approach weight loss from a calorie perspective could so easily trigger disordered eating because a numerical measure of what youre putting into your body would be easy to track and thus to obsess over (and thats not to mention the people who have or are recovering from eating disorders, which is hardly a small minority.)

Loosely counting calories can help to educate individuals about the calorie density of different foods, says Jemma. This doesnt mean you should steer clear of calorie-dense foods - it just means you should keep an eye on your portion sizes and how often you eat them.

The image of a woman picking over a salad (dressing on the side) while her date tucks into a burger and chips is so standardised women often already feel guilty about ordering what they fancy while eating out (and lets not forget, most restaurants already have low calorie sections of their menus that lots of us will order from automatically).

Lynn Crilly is the author of author of Hope With Eating Disorders (Hammersmith Books) and mother to a daughter suffering with an eating disorder.

If a person is consistently confronted with the numbers, it can distort the choices they are making and in turn make them hyper aware of what they are having, she says. They may start to feel external and internal pressure to make the lowest calorie choice, which over time could become obsessional and a once relaxed person with a healthy attitude towards food could soon fall into the clutches of disordered eating.

This is something that resonates with me, because like the binge and purge cycle of Bulimia, restricting calories can seem like a magic fix for losing weight. Its just maths, right? All you have to do is keep those numbers down, make sure those subtractions at the gym count for some of (if not all) your food consumption and viola thinness. The fact that I was never underweight never took away from the severity of my mental disorder.

An ED sufferer faced with calorie content on all the menus in restaurants may find that dealing with the constant numbers will not only exacerbate the anxiety around being able to eat out and socialise (which is challenging in itself for the sufferer) but also that they disconnect because they can become so focused on ensuring that everything they eat fits neatly into their personal allowance of calories for the day.

We already know were supposed to be thin and that to achieve this were supposed to eat very little. Weve worked hard to accept diversity in our bodies and for those of us recovering from the psychological trauma of EDs and for whom intuitive eating is a daily battle, calorie counts on menus is likely to, at best, take the enjoyment out of eating out and at worst, trigger old behaviours that could easily become obsessive again.

The pandemic has thrown the health of the population under the spotlight and theres no denying that rising obesity has been a concern for years. But its also stretched our mental health facilities to the limit and with being kind to ourselves currently top of the agenda for many, this measure could cause more harm than good.

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