Weight lose diets – a million ways to get skinny, or that’s the way it seems when we have a look at the internet, TV, magazines and any other expression of the media. Wherever you turn on the internet for instance you will see an ad that promises you you’ll be skinny as a stick in no time, by way of surgery, diet pills, exercise, shakes, fiber pills, only consuming 10 calories a day (I’m exaggerating of course) and what not.
Personally I sometimes get really tired of being lied to so much. And when you really think about it, whose well being to you think the inventors and authors of all of these programs and wonder methods have in mind? Well of course their own, and that of their wallets to be precise. They don’t care if you actually make yourself sick with their product or program, as long as it gets quick and visible results (that may not last at all).
Sometimes I wonder if we realize what kinds of things we put into our bodies to lose extra weight. There are the natural remedies to lose weight, herbal teas and the likes, (sounds harmless enough, doesn’t it?), some of which have the potential to give you mayor heart problems (yes, I do know people that had to be hospitalized after their consumption). Then there is the worst of all (that I know of), where people apparently have chosen to go with a surefire “diet pill”, containing tapeworm larvae. One heck of a way to lose weight and health and . . . ewwhh!!! Many diet products use chemicals and artificial ingredients to replace the real (and potentially fattening) things in our food. Have you taken a moment to have a closer look at the ingredient list of some of these so-called foods? You’ll need a dictionary to figure out what you’d be eating. Are you sure that such ingredients, even keeping the low-cal factor in mind, are really better for you than reduced amounts of true nutrients?
You can be sure that none of the fad-diet gurus are going to tell you that weight loss of several pounds in a couple of days will mostly be water. You also won’t hear that the miraculously reduced waistline in a day or so will be product of a good and healthy bowel movement.
3,500 calories is what makes a pound of body fat. If you want to lose some of those you’ll have to ingest fewer calories than your body consumes (to lose a pound in a week you need to eat 500 calories less a day) or you have to exercise to burn it off (one hour of elliptical machine or swimming will buy you 600 calories off your hips). So when you get out your calculator you’ll see that it is impossible not to ingest or burn off 10,000 calories in a couple of days to make you lose three pounds of body fat.
Truth is, when the product or method tells you you’re going to lose three pounds in the first two days, they are telling you a bed-time story (sounds as good as one too). Your scale might actually cooperate with them and also tell you, you lost weight, at least for the first week or so, but really what kinds of pounds were those you lost? I can assure you it wasn’t body fat. Fast loss of weight in very few days usually means you lost water and bowel contents.
Ok, all this talk about what doesn’t work. Well, what does? How will I manage to lose the weight I need to get rid of? If you were hoping for a quick fix that won’t cost you anything but some money, I’ll have to disappoint you. The kind of weight loss you need and should want, the healthy and lasting kind, will only be achieved through an adjustment in your lifestyle. Of course, using a good, healthy method to combine the right kinds of (real) foods to give you a good shove in the right direction is a good idea. But in the end you will have to decide once and for all what and how much food is going to do you good.
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