What you may initiate as a part of your dieting plan can turn into an obsession fairly quickly. With societal or peer pressure many people unnecessarily feel the need to lose weight by any means they can think of mainly crash diets. Because of unawareness of the effects of starving people turn to crash diets or switch on to 'extreme skinny mode' to get into the ideal body shape publicized by the media. Not just that several men and women who decide to fast for religious reasons or on auspicious days in festivals like Navrati or Ramadan are doing nothing