Lose Weight Fast
Despite the fact that there is more information available on weight loss than ever before, obesity is at its highest since records have been kept. Unfortunately a lot of the information that is available is not 100% reliable and there seems to be no foolproof way for the unsuspecting person to discern what is actually the truth of the matter.
If you are serious about losing weight the sensible way and ensuring that you sustain your weight loss in the future, then it is worth dispelling some of the myths that surround the weight loss and fitness industry.
You may well see a diet promising that you will lose weight in 7 days. Yes you may well lose weight in 7 days, but only 2-3 lb of any weight lost will be fat and that is what you want to lose. Any other weight lost during the 7 days will be either water, muscle or a combination of both. Your body could actually be eating its own muscle. You won’t find that information in any of the fad diet books
Many of the ideas you will find about how to lose weight fast will be extremely unhealthy and may even cause you to gain weight
Here are some examples
1. Take a diet such as the Hollywood Cookie diet, juice fasting or the Grapefruit diet and follow it for a week. At best you will lose 5/6 lbs that will go straight back on the minute you return to normal eating, at worst you will feel really ill, possibly very light headed and/or headaches as your body tries to adjust to this unhealthy regime. Don’t try to lose weight this way.
2. Visiting the gym doing low intensity cardiovascular exercises followed by 100 abdominal crunches. It is now known that the best exercise for cardio for weight loss is high intesity interval training. We also know that abdominal crunches are not the way to creating a six pack and great care needs to be taken when under taking a fitness regime to ensure you are not doing your body more harm than good. There is plenty of sensible advice around if you search hard enough.
3. It is advisable to eat no more than three times a day and do not eat after 6 p.m. Do not eat real food, focus on protein bars and pre-packaged foods or protein drinks. Eating smaller meals more often is now thought to be the way forward and protein bars are for emergencies only. Nothing can replace “real” food as this is what the body recognises.
4. If you want to lose weight fast you must dramatically reduce your calorie intake. Low calorie diets are now thought to be dangerous and cause the body to go into adrenal stress. This will not help you to lose weight and may even cause you to gain weight.
5. Take diet pills to help you to lose weight fast. This is an absolute “no, no” Avoid at all costs.
Weight loss is in fact an intricate science. It follows the science of how the body works. If you do not follow this correctly you will not maintain your weight loss in the future.
Janet Matthews
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