M: The Corset Diet

Some of you may have heard about dieting using corsets. It has been rather popular with international celebrities, and a favorite target for critics.

The Corset Diet is basically about using corsets to restrict your food intake, leading to weight loss.

By lacing up the wearer to a certain tightness, the corset will compress the lower torso, reducing the abdominal cavity. In turn, the expansion of the stomach will be limited when eating.

Which in layman terms, means; "the corset will squeeze your tummy so you cannot eat as much."

Simply, it reduces the food intake, thus lowering the amount of calories you consume.

However, critics like to argue that it is not very effective. The wearer can always defy this diet by loosening the corset before meals, or eating higher caloric foods.

Well, if you don't have the discipline to stick to this diet, you probably don't have the discipline to do any other diet either. Its the same determination and motivation you need for any diet plan.

Some advice I can give would be to:

1.) Never overeat. Do not force yourself to finish your food.
     - The amount you can comfortably stomach will be drastically reduced, so avoid swallowing more than what your new tiny stomach can handle, or it may result in discomfort.
     - Overeating in a corset may result in nausea and heartburn.
     - You can separate one normal meal into 2 or 3 smaller meals.

2.) Eat slowly. It can be hard to gauge the amount you can stomach at first for certain foods.

3.) NEVER suddenly loosen your corset after eating a lot.
     - This will cause a sudden change in stomach pressure, which is not only very uncomfortable, but also not good for your stomach elasticity.

4.) Try to avoid high caloric/high fat foods.
     - 1 gram of fat is 9 calories, as compared to 1 gram of protein at 4 calories.
     - If I eat 100 grams of mayonnaise, I will still get fat, as compared to if I had 2kg of greens.
     - Please do not eat fried chicken everyday while on the corset diet and then complain to us that it isn't helping your weight or body shape.

6.) Please exercise.
    - A little bit of exercise everyday can help to boost your metabolism and burn off the calories that you consumed easier.
    - A diet always works better in synergy with exercise.


If you really want to have a heavy meal while wearing a corset, please loosen it BEFORE eating.

The corset diet not only reduces the amount of food intake, but also prolongs the feeling of fullness.

I did not intentionally start the corset diet. So the first time I had one of our former colleagues fit me in a corset, I was so shocked that I almost cried when I was too full to finish my burger.

Now I know to keep half of my food for later.

~ M