Arrive December. The temperature rises and the sleeves become shorter. Fear arises about the body and about “getting to the body”. Summer” with less weight.
There are also avalanches of products that promise this rapid weight losseffortless and almost magical.
Many of the most popular ones not only don’t help, but can sabotage your metabolism digestion and your mind. If I have learned anything from accompanying many people, it is that no one loses weight by purchasing a product, no one alone changes body composition, changes habits, organizes schedules, or improves their relationship with food. And many of them can also make you feel worse: hungrier, more anxious, more tired, and worse inflammation.
The same false reports circulate every year. Today I’m going to tell you the five “star products” of summer marketing that don’t work and can also distract you from what really puts you in a good mood.
Learn what you need to know before falling into these traps and what you can do instead.
Powders, capsules, stimulant shots. everyone promises it accelerate metabolism and melt localized fat.
What actually happens: Most are based on caffeine, green tea extracts or guarana, with a stimulating effect. This may increase your heart rate a little, but it doesn’t burn fat or change your body composition.
You may feel more awake, but that doesn’t mean Burn fatThey deceive by confusing stimulation with fat loss, and anxious people or people who already drink coffee may experience heart palpitations, poor sleep, and increased appetite.
Fun fact: For most of these products, the “accelerating” effect is so small that it’s the equivalent of drinking a double coffee… but they are much more expensive.
What helps: Regulating diet plans, increasing protein and daily exercise. The metabolism is activated with routine, not with capsules.
The summer classic. Photos of a flat stomach + a green infusion and the promise to “cleanse the body”.
The reality: You already have the real detoxification organs and those are the liver, kidneys and intestines, that’s where the real detoxification is. These teas usually contain natural laxatives. You lose fluids and run to the toilet. They can dehydrate you, inflame you, alter gut flora and create a rebound effect. They are deceiving because they show quick results…that last for hours.
What works: more vegetables, more water and less ultra-processed. Real “detoxification” is about consistency, not diarrhea.
Shakes who promise to lose weight because “they have all the vitamins.”
The reality: They may reduce anxiety for a few days, but they don’t teach how to eat or feel full. They make you hungry, lead to afternoon binges and are unsustainable, plus many of them contain sugar and low-quality oils.
They are deceptive because they claim to be “scientific nutrition,” but they are incomplete and seem healthy because they come in a “fitness” package and add celebrities in their advertising.
What helps: put together real dishes with protein, fiber and good fats. Satiety comes from food, not dust.
Interesting fact: No powder creates the chewing action that is essential for activating satiety hormones like CCK.
Any product that is defined by what it “doesn’t have” usually hides what it does have.
The Reality: Just because it doesn’t contain fat doesn’t mean it doesn’t contain sugar, and just because it’s light doesn’t mean it’s suitable for a balanced diet. “Light” just means fewer calories than the original version, not that it is nutritious.
They are often addictive and create a false feeling of permission: you eat more because “They’re light.”
They deceive by using the word “light” as a nutrition label, as well as “zero.”
What is useful: simple and real snacks, such as nuts, natural yogurt, whole fruits, a good bread with egg or cheese or hummus. Real snacks, not fantasy.
Interesting fact: Studies show that the intake of a food labeled as “light” increases by up to 30%.
Yes, they still exist and you can even buy them at outlet prices on the Chinese fashion app.
The reality: They don’t lose fat, they don’t reduce inches, they don’t change the fatty tissue. The only thing you can feel is a hot/cold effect that gives the feeling of “activation”. Sometimes they irritate the skin. And nothing more.
They are deceptive because the skin changes quickly due to hydration. Therefore, it is confused with fat reduction, creating the illusion of a “reduction” of more hydrated skin.
What is useful: Constancy. Eating properly, strength training and good hydration (this also makes the skin happy).
Interesting fact: The only evidence of body transformation from creams is limited to improvements in hydration and texture and has nothing to do with fat.
Summer doesn’t need an “express” version of you. Don’t try to be “perfect”, every summer you are offered shortcuts that don’t work, your body doesn’t need extreme solutions: but order, perseverance and real choices so that you are lighter from the inside out and not punished even more. And as I always say in consultations: It’s not the week that changes you, but the habit you can maintain.
By Lorena Balerio
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