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BUFFALO, NY - APRIL 06: UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Daniel Cormier holds an open workout for fans and media at the KeyBank Center on April 6, 2017 in Buffalo, New York. (Photo by Kevin Hoffman/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)

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Weigh-ins are always a huge deal in any combat sport, whether its the UFC, wrestling, or boxing. Cutting weight is a part of every sport, and those who participate tend to learn some tricks over the years they compete.

Whether they learn how to cut weight quickly by wearing trash bags, or certain scale tricks, everyone knows them, and that may include UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Daniel Cormier.

Cormier made waves Friday morning at the UFC 210 weigh-ins when he moved off the scale to allegedly drop 1.2 pounds and hit 205. After weighing in at 206.2 just two minutes earlier, already stripped down and hidden behind a towel, Cormier then hit 205 after his brief disappearance from the weigh-in room.

Cormier claimed to not understand what pushing down on the towel could do to a fighters weight, but as someone who has been weighing in between wrestling and fighting for at least 20 years at this point, he has to have learned some moves along the way.

Its just one of the many tricks those stepping on the scale use throughout their sports, as the towel helps to take away some of the force of your body on the scale. People can believe that Cormier maybe just went to the bathroom quickly and came back, but when youre not using your hands the first time and hit 206.2, and then hit 205 with your hands, something is up.

Some digital scales can create issues with weigh-ins, as they can easily be manipulated in different ways. One easy way on some scales to drop a few pounds is by favoring a certain corner of the scale to get rid of the scales balance, affecting its ability to zero out and give an accurate weight.

Other digital scales can be tricked simply by the movement or placement of a power cord, which can take tens of pounds off of someone weighing in. Also, the placement of the scale itself on a certain surface can fluctuate weights, and make you seem lighter than you really are with the lack of force.

Overall, its tough to believe a man whos been weighing in since he was at least in high school doesnt know of one of the oldest weigh-in tricks in the book. Or, maybe he just had to go to the bathroom.

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While promoting her music video for her newest single Mo Bounce, Iggy Azalea told a radio station that she lost 15 pounds in one week by dancing to her new twerk -heavy song.

"It's a lotI went on a meal plan before the video because I knew I would have to be dancing fairly skimpily dressed," she said, according to E! News . "I did a lot of rehearsals actually, and man I lost 15 pounds in a week dancing to that song!"

Iggy may or may not have been exaggerating, but even so, rapid weight loss like what she's describing isn't exactly healthyin fact, for most, it's flat-out dangerous. Doctors usually recommend no more than 1 to 2 pounds of weight loss a week, depending on your medical history. Anything more than that often means it's been done through unsafe dieting practices that can have major consequences for your health.

Clifton Page , M.D., sports medicine physician at the UHealth Sports Medicine Institute at the University of Miami, tells SELF that one tell-tale sign of rapid weight loss is loss of fluid and dehydration"meaning you're not actually losing pounds of fat, but rather depriving your body of the water it needs to function. Losing water weight can disrupt the bodys systems and lead to cardiac arrhythmias, increased cramping, muscle damage, and kidney damage. "It can put a hit on your body and can lead to irreversible damage," he says.

Our bodies need water and other fluids to function properly, and if you become dehydrated, some of these processes may not function normally, womens health expert Jennifer Wider , M.D., previously told SELF . Severe dehydration can have dire consequences. Those consequences can include heat stroke or exhaustion, seizures, and even death in the most extreme cases, according to Mayo Clinic.

Experts also note that losing lots of weight quickly usually isn't a sign of increased exercising, as Iggy suggests, but rather because of over-restricting calories. Not eating enough can lead to lack of nutrients, low energy, constipation, constant feelings of hunger and thirst, and irritability. Nutritionists usually warn that women who want to lose weight should not go under 1,200 calories a day, but your personal number is dependent on many factors, including your basal metabolic rate (the amount of calories your body burns at a resting state) as well as how much activity you do in a day. You can read more about calories and weight loss here .

No matter what, chances are if Iggy did experience a significant amount of weight loss in a short time, the results would be temporary, rather than sustainable. "If she was to go back to her normal eating behavior, she'd likely regain some of that lost weight," Christine Ann Pellegrini , Ph.D., an assistant professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, tells SELF. In short, losing a lot of weight quickly is dangerous and ineffective. So if you catch Iggy Azalea's newest single, let it inspire you to dance, but do it for the fun of itnot because you want to twerk your way to weight loss.

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Yo-yo dieting -- quickly losing weight only to promptly regain it -- may raise the risk of heart problems, a new study suggests.

People who experience regular weight fluctuations of 8 to 10 pounds are much more likely to suffer from heart disease, heart attack, stroke and other heart-related maladies than people who only experienced shifts of 2 pounds or less, said lead researcher Dr. Sripal Bangalore. He is an interventional cardiologist with NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City.

In particular, yo-yo dieters had more than twice the risk of death, heart attack or stroke compared with people who maintained a relatively stable body weight, Bangalore said.

"For every 1.5- to 2-pound change in weight fluctuation, the risk of any coronary or cardiovascular event was increased by 4 percent, and the risk of death by 9 percent," Bangalore said.

Patients with heart disease are encouraged to drop some pounds if they are overweight or obese, but it is very hard to maintain weight loss, Bangalore said. Weight gain frequently follows weight loss, falling into a rhythmic pattern doctors call "weight cycling."

To see whether weight cycling had any effect on heart health, Bangalore and his colleagues analyzed medical data from 10,000 patients with hardening of the arteries in a clinical trial to test the effect of statin medications.

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The patients were tracked over four years, with doctors regularly taking measure of their health and their body weight.

Researchers found that people whose weight cycled dramatically were more likely to experience heart disease, heart attack, cardiac arrest, blocked arteries, angina, stroke or heart failure.

Their risk of death was 124 percent higher, heart attack 117 percent higher, and stroke 136 percent higher, after accounting for other factors, the study said.

Bangalore thinks dramatic changes in weight likely place a lot of stress on the body, and also causes hormonal changes that affect the heart.

But yo-yo dieting might only be an indication of deeper medical problems affecting a person, said Linda Van Horn, a professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.

Yo-yo dieters in the study were more likely to be heavier, smoke and have high blood pressure and diabetes, said Van Horn, a spokeswoman for the American Heart Association. Twice as many yo-yo dieters actually developed diabetes during the study.

"When you go down that list, some huge issues jump right out at you," Van Horn said. "Across all of the likely candidates for what contributed to illness or death, the yo-yo dieting in and of itself was not the culprit. Those who were yo-yo dieters, as much as they tried to lose weight to lower their risk factors, still succumbed to the very risk factors we know all too well."

Overweight or obese people should still try to lose weight, since dropping any excess pounds will improve their health, Bangalore and Van Horn said.

The key is to undertake weight loss as a long-term effort involving diet, exercise and other lifestyle changes you can maintain over the long haul, they said.

"This shouldn't deter anyone from losing weight, but this is all the more reason to say that once you've done the hard work of losing weight, it's really important to keep the pounds off for a long period of time," Bangalore said.

People can do that by avoiding fad diets, and instead focusing on healthy eating and regular exercise, Van Horn said. They also should give themselves a break if their efforts don't immediately pay off with dramatic weight loss.

"Maybe you don't lose quite as much as you could if you starve yourself, but the real trick is keeping it off over the course of your life," she said. "The only way that really is successful is adopting a lifestyle that includes the very things we all know that contribute to healthy weight."

The study was published April 5 in theNew England Journal of Medicine.

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Everyone is looking for a good way to lose weight quickly. Regardless whether you have ten pounds or one hundred pounds to lose, could the low carb lifestyle work for you?

It is exactly what it sounds like. Your #diet consists of limiting your carbohydrate intake in order to have your body burn fat versus carbohydrates. The amount of carbohydrates allowed in your diet daily depends on many variables. If you weigh more you generally limit your intake significantly at first. Depending on the diet this could be done by cutting carbohydrates down to twenty or less per day.

In the beginning phases of the low carb lifestyle, you will be eating meat and green veggies mostly. The meats cannot have breading or spices that include sugar on it. If it does, this will include some hidden carbohydrates. You are also only allowed to drink water and unsweetened teas. You may have some diet soda in moderation, but some diets do not allow for certain sugar substitutes. For example, on the first phase of the #Atkins diet, many sites say you cannot have aspartame but are only allowed Splenda or Stevia.

There are many different websites that will help you to choose the diet that is correct for you. Some of the diets even offer applications to download to your phone or tablet that makes for easy access to keep track of your intake for the day.

Atkins offers an application for your phone that allows you to track your weight and your diet. It also allows you to sync a fitness tracker and keep track of your steps all in the same location. Another cool feature on the Atkins app is that you can search Atkins friendly recipes. You can search by the phase of the program that you are in or by ingredient.

The keto diet is very similar to Atkins. You have to limit your carbohydrate intake strictly. The idea of limiting your carbs is to send your body into ketosis and burn fat. The limitations on this diet are much more strict than Atkins.

I personally have been eating low carb for the past two weeks. I have lost twelve pounds just by changing my diet. I have done nothing else in the form of exercise. I go about my life as normal and limit my carb intake to under twenty-five per day. Online you can also join in groups and see other people who have lost weight as well.

Regardless of your opinion on the low carb lifestyle, it does actually work to #Lose Weight. Many people who have lost weight on the diet claim to gain it back just as fast. This diet is not a quick fix. It is a lifestyle change that you must maintain for the rest of your life.

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In certain sports, rapid weight loss is extremely common and extremely dangerous.

Boxers, wrestlers, muay thai and mixed martial arts fighters do it, and so do weightlifters. They lose as much weight as they can and then quickly gain it all back at the last minute, supposedly to get a competitive advantage.

At El Nio Training Center in San Francisco, Josh Berkovic loses about 25 pounds before a mixed martial arts fight. He usually gets about seven weeks notice, he and says the first six weeks are easy. He trims back the carbs in his diet, exercises a lotbasic fat-burning stuff.

"You're losing about a pound and a half to two pounds a week, so that should get you in range then for the final week to be 13 to 15 pounds over," Berkovic says.

That last week is when the serious "cut" begins.

"You don't want to lose muscle mass," Berkovic says. "You don't want to lose strength, especially for an athletic performance, so the idea is, how can I become as lean as possible going into the week of the fight?"

After that, it's all about cutting water weight. More than 50 percent of our body weight is water, and athletes try to shed some of it by sweating. Former muay thai fighter Albert Salopek did a large weight cut once and says he never wants to do it again.

"We put this rubber sweat suit on, pants and top.You cover your skin with what's called Albolene, which is a makeup remover, and it opens your pores. Got on the treadmill and ran like three or four miles, and with your pores open, your sweat just comes off like a river," Salopek says.

"Probably lost four or five pounds from that, and had to go sit in a hot sauna with the sweat suit on for probably another 30, 40 minutes, " he says.

Sweating out the water is often the first step. Then there's the flush. Daniel Kim, who also does muay thai, starts the flush phase by drinking as much water as possible in the first few days of his "cutting weight" week.

"You drink all that water all through the day and that gets you to start peeing a lot," Kim says. "And then 24 hours away from the weigh-in, then you stop drinking water. And then you're still peeing. And then you don't get to drink more water, but your body is so used to peeing at these hours, it pees out all this water and then you start getting lighter and lighter and lighter. That's your body getting dehydrated. And then your urine gets yellower and darker."

Dark, yellow urine is not good. People also experience muscle cramps, irregular heartbeats, and even paranoia, according to Krista-Scott Dixon, a nutrition coach at Precision Nutrition.

After athletes stop flooding their body with water, Dixon says the kidneys continue to work overtime to get it out.

"We tell the kidneys flush, flush, flush, and so they get going on that, and then we don't replace the water, so the kidneys keep flushing, and eventually there's no more water coming in, so we run a water deficit," Dixon says.

Dixon used to cut weight herself. She competed in hand-to-hand combat competitions called grappling. She'd regularly shed 20 to 30 pounds before her matches.

"There's an increased risk of brain trauma from weight cutting, and in a sport where you get hit in the head, that's a really big problem," Dixon says. "There's fluid around your brain and it has a job to do, so when we deplete that, that's gonna be an issue, too."

About 10 years ago, in her early thirties, Dixon went too far with her weight cuts and put herself into early menopause. Estrogen is stored in fat tissue, and Dixon had so little fat on her body, she stopped producing that key hormone.

Rapid weight fluctuation can also put stress on the heart, and over time the habit can lead to an eating disorder.

Pressure to perform

Cutting weight is especially dangerous for adolescents, whose bodies need fuel not only to survive, but also to grow. Greco Roman wrestler Donte Burney, who started cutting weight when he was 13, says he's cut as much as 20 pounds in three days.

As a high school wrestler in Indiana, Burney weighed about 150 pounds. He says a coach asked him to cut 25 pounds to fight a 125-pound opponent. He slimmed down, but then the goalpost moved. His opponent had dropped down to the 119-pound weight class--so Burney had to make that cut too.

"Talking to my coach, and I was like 'Man, I don't know if I can do it.' And he said, 'Maybe you're scared?' That kind of lit some fire under me, and all night long I was running until I made the 119 weight class," Burney says.

At the start of the match the next day, Burney was winning.

"And then second period began. [My opponent] blasted me with a double leg, and after that I remember just being in a hospital," he says.

Burney blacked out. His kidneys nearly failed, and he could have died.

Doctors barred him from fighting under 140 pounds for the rest of the year, but Burney wasn't scared away. As an adult he took ephedrine, a fat-burning stimulant, to lose weight for another match. He landed in the hospital again, this time with a dangerous heart condition. It was only then that he started to realize what he could do to his body.

Among professionals, the pressure to is financial: for professional boxers there's big money at stake if they show up for a fight 1 or 2 pounds heavier than their contract requires. In high school and college, it's about scholarships, pride, and accolades.

Lose to win

But, at any level, the point of cutting weight is to gain a competitive advantage.

Former North American Boxing Organization junior welterweight champion Karim "Hard Hitta" Mayfield cuts about 20 pounds off his "walking around weight" so he can box in a lower weight class.But then after qualifying at the weigh-in, Mayfield spends the next 24 hours trying to gain all of that weight back, by eating and drinking as much as he can. When he steps in the ring, he actually wants to be 20 pounds heavier than his opponent.

"You may watch a fight and think, wait a minute, it said he was 150 yesterday at the weigh-ins, and now he's 165--like how?" Mayfield says.

This is totally legal, in most cases. But the premise is faulty since usually, both fighters are cutting weight and then gaining it back before the fight. No one really gets an advantage, and everybody knows it. Still, they do it anyway.

In the past few years, at least three MMA fighters have died during weight cuts. In one case, the fighter was taking a diuretic, a medicine that makes the body expel water and salt though frequent urination. Other fighters take laxatives, hoping to lose a few pounds of poop before they step on the scales.

Dave Zirin, host of the podcast "The Edge of Sports," says the media spotlight has begun to rein in the dangers of win-at-all-costs machismo sports culture.

"It takes tragedy to provoke consciousness, unfortunately," Zirin says.

He says that's what happened to get more people to pay attention to head injuries in football.

"It will take high profile incidents, almost certainly of death, to be able to raise the awareness to a point where it's regulated in a way to the benefit of young athletes," Zirin says.

Sports organizations are slowly reining in the tradition of cutting weight. The NCAA, the governing body for college sports, has instituted rules to discourage rapid weight loss and gain in the days before a match.

The UFC, the largest Mixed Martial Arts promoter in the world, recently created a rule that fighters must be within 8 percent of their target weight four days before the fight.

And some athletes are policing themselves in the interest of their own health.

Strength coach Tom Campitelli, who runs small power-lifting competitions out of a gym in Oakland, recently started experimenting with something called a "weigh-out." Lifters step on the scale immediately after competing. Then their performance is match with athletes who weighed in within the same range.

"I think it makes for a better competition in a lot of ways," Campitelli says. "It ensures that people actually compete in a more level playing field of sorts."

The "weigh-out" could help address the problem in sports like weightlifting, where your results can be compared to others competitors' after the fact. But it likely wouldn't help much in one-on-one sports such as boxing, where you can't switch your opponent after you've already finished fighting.

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Beth Skwarecki, a staff writer at Lifehacker, is practicing the 5:2 Diet. The premise is simple: She eats normally five days per week, and "fasts" for two days by restricting herself to 500 calories. So, for instance, on one fasting day, she ate green beans, a Clif bar, and a homemade sous vide egg bite.

The United Kingdom-based diet plan is popular because it isn't as restrictive as other diets, according to Skwarecki. For instance, the Whole30 Diet asks dieters to eliminate all grains, legumes, dairy, and foods deemed "psychologically unhealthy," like smoothies, for 30 days.

The 5:2 Diet, however, employs "intermittent fasting" with the promise of a "longer, healthier life."

"Since you are only fasting for two days of your choice each week, and eating normally on the other five days, there is always something new and tasty on the near horizon," the 5:2 Diet's website explains. "In short, its easy to comply with a regime that only asks you to restrict your calorie intake occasionally. It re-calibrates the diet equation, and stacks the odds in your favor."

No matter how mild the 5:2 Diet is purported to be, however, it is as dangerous as all fad diets.

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WHERE you buy your food could make all the difference to your weight loss.

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As a rule of thumb, weight loss combines 75% diet and 25% exercise.

This number was found after an analysis of more than 700 weight loss studies which found the best results came when people cut their calorie intake rather than attempted to just burn off calories.

Where you buy your food can make all the difference to your weight loss journey.

The supermarket is a dieter's holy grail.

Its where they can stock up on filling food and make sure they have enough in their cupboards to stop them succumbing to temptation.

With this in mind, here are four tips for what to do at the supermarket to help aid your weight loss.

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1. Shop around the perimeter of the supermarket

Many nutritionists swear by the perimeter method which means sticking to the foods along the wall of the supermarket.

This is where you find things like fruit and vegetables, meats, seafood, dairy and eggs. Its in the aisles where youll face vices like chocolate, chips and ice cream.

2. Make a list

Making a list not only helps you stay focussed, it can also save you money.

By sitting down and writing a list before you go better yet a list from a meal plan youve made for that week you will go into the supermarket with a clear knowledge of exactly what you want.

By planning your meals for the week, you will be able to evaluate what ingredients you already have and design your list based on what you need for the week.

3. Never shop on an empty stomach

If theres one thing your mother was right about (besides everything) its this. Yet, you still go shopping straight after a workout or first thing on a Saturday morning before breakfast.

By doing this your hunger can begin to dictate your brain and you end up buying things you dont need and things that can sabotage your diet.

4. Get the right staple foods

There are certain foods you should always keep in your cupboards if you are trying to lose weight.

With these staples in your pantry, make sure you stock up on them as you need. They should be things like natural popcorn for a snack, whole grains, fruit and nuts.

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