There are many ‘How to lose weight quickly’ diets all over the media, on television, websites, newsstands, radio, magazines and books.
Most overweight people want to know how to lose weight in a week. They are, quite rightly, desperate to lose excess weight and will grasp at anything that promises how to lose weight fast. But many of these "lose weight fast" diets are based on false promises and ill-founded opinions, and can actually be harmful and even counter-productive, leading to greater weight gain!
Here are just some of the myths and misinformation promoted by "quick weight loss" gurus:
Myth: cut calories to lose weight.
Reality: cutting calories makes the body think it must preserve fat, and so you put on weight instead of achieving weight reduction.
Myth: when you follow set menus and eating plans you will lose weight.
Reality: just about all diet books and weight loss plans promote some kind of food menus saying what you should eat and when. This generally doesn’t work because lifestyles vary so much, including food preferences. By following any kind of set food menus, day in day out, you are more likely to actually gain weight because you will either give up out of boredom or go hungry (which is counter-productive). When you inevitably give up the set menus you will quickly re-gain your weight, and most likely end up being even more overweight.
Myth: eating whole grain and fiber-rich foods is healthy and will help you lose weight.
Reality: whole grain foods are no healthier that foods containing milled grains (flour). Whole grains do nothing to promote good health or help you lose weight. Growing scientific evidence shows that a high-fiber diet is in fact bad for health. Fiber robs vitamins and minerals from the body, leading to poor nutrition and this prevents safe and healthy weight loss. We do not need grains in a healthy diet, whether whole or milled. Also, we do not need much fiber in our diets and getting enough is very easy. Exhortations from health gurus to eat more fiber is bad advice and counter-productive.
Myth: natural fruit juice is healthy and non-fattening as part of a well-balanced diet.
Reality: drinking fruit juice is more fattening and unhealthier than just about any other kind of food. Fruit juice gives the body a blast of fructose sugar without being bound up with fiber - this goes straight to body fat giving you quick weight gain, and is much worse for health than even table sugar!
Myth: to lose weight you should eat less and exercise more.
Reality: The less you eat the more fat you put on because any kind of food restriction makes the body store more fat. When you exercise more than you are used to it is likely to make you feel hungrier and exhausted, and this makes you over eat or go for junk food which just makes you fatter. The secret is to exercise the smart way (not too little or too much) so that you don’t feel hungry and exhausted.
Myth: you should drink less water so as to reduce water retention and feel less bloated.
Reality: you should in fact drink more water, not less, to lose water retention. By giving your body plenty of water it will "think" it no longer needs to retain water in body tissue, leading to loss of excess water.
Myth: an effective way to lose weight is to increase your metabolic rate so as to burn more fat.
Reality: the metabolic rate cannot be controlled to lose weight. In fact, the metabolic rate is nothing more than a set of many different chemical reactions in all parts of the body. These chemical reactions are constantly in a state of flux, speeding up and slowing down at different times of day and night depending on a multitude of factors. Fatter people tend to have higher metabolic rates (i.e. burn fat/energy faster) because of their higher body mass. To try to control the metabolic rate as a way of losing weight is like using a table-tennis ball to play tennis (it won’t work!).
How to lose weight in a week is a question many people ask. And yes, you can lose weight in a week, safely, quickly and easily if you know how. But 99% percent of dietary advice about how to lose weight quickly is completely wrong. Worse still, if you don’t do it right, any attempts to lose weight quickly will re-bound and you will end up putting on more weight than before.
Naturally you don’t want to lose weight in a week and then the week after regain all the lost weight. Yo-yo dieting is known to ruin health and prevent weight loss. The key is to lose weight quickly but permanently. We human beings are all the same biologically. And regardless of medical conditions, therefore there can only be one best way for a human being to lose weight permanently, quickly, and safely.
Medical research into weight loss has advanced tremendously in recent years, and now there is a good deal of consensus on the best way for any human being to lose weight safely and quickly. These discoveries have now been put into a book, and for further information see below.
Russell Eaton is the highly regarded author of The Foolproof Diet. For more information on how to lose weight quickly and permanently please go to ==> http://www.howtoloseweight-inaweek.com .
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