Weight Loss Myths

Is it any wonder that we are a nation of confused overweight people? With so many different claims made about how best to lose weight and specific to us, to achieve fitness weight loss, who can blame us?  Of course not everyone wants to be a Fitness Model or follow a fitness weight loss program. So, if you are a woman who simply wants to start by shedding a little body fat, a dress size or two perhaps as well as to tone and tighten your body a little so your clothes hang that much nicer on you, let’s take a closer look at some of the popular weight loss myths!

Weight Loss Myths 1. The best way to lose weight is to take part in regular ‘intensive’ exercise!

False! Whilst regular intensive exercise will result in weight loss and may be a great way for a super fit Fitness Model to train, for most people including those on a fitness weight loss program, a better, safer and more sustainable way to lose weight and to keep it off, is simply to make sensible ‘healthy’ changes to your diet, combined with taking the right, ‘sensible’ regular exercise. The key word is ‘sensible’: If over the next 6 months you were to lose on average – just 1 - 1½ per pound a week (a very achievable goal for most people); you would shed an amazing 26 – 39 pounds in just 26 weeks! The requirement to take regular 'intensive' exercise in order to lose weight is definately one of the weight loss myths.

Weight Loss Myths 2: The best way to lose weight is to eat as little as you can!

False! As far as weight loss myths go this is plain crazy! Not only are you likely to do long term damage to your health but this sort of diet is impossible to maintain. You will be drained of energy causing you to crave high-fat and high-sugar foods. Starving yourself and then binging out on high fat and high sugar food - what a way to exist! Alternatively you could eat a sensible diet of high ‘quality’ ‘lower fat’, ‘low sugar’ food options. This would satisfy your appetite and as a result you would have no desire to binge out on high fat, high sugar foods. You would achieve but also maintain a sensible weight and you would look great and feel great and have loads of energy!

Weight Loss Myths 3. Slimming pills are effective for achieving long term weight loss.

False – No way! So you are going to spend the rest of your life popping pills are you? Don’t expect to have a long and happy life if you do! Let’s get real shall we? You probably look after your car better than you look after your body? Look, your body is very precious; you can trade in your car for another one if you mess it up; not so with your body. Don’t abuse your body with slimming pills! To function the way it is intended your body needs ‘high quality’ fuel! That fuel is not available in tablet form – period! Ok, so you go on a program of slimming pills and you achieve what ever it is you are trying to achieve! Then what? Are you going to keep taking pills forever – of course not! You are going to return to ‘normal eating aren’t you? Unfortunately your idea of normal eating is what got you in the mess in the first place! What have you learnt about sensible healthy eating whilst you have been stuffing your face with pills? If you want to achieve great fitness weight loss avoid slimming pills!

Weight Loss Myths 4. Healthy foods are too expensive!

False! This is nothing more than a lame excuse usually given by ‘bone idle lazy fat people’! What they really mean is they can’t be bothered to go out and buy wonderful fresh ingredients with which to create ‘delicious mouth watering’, ‘wholesome healthy’, meals. They certainly can’t be bothered to get off their fat backside and prepare and cook or learn to cook the very food that would resolve their problem! Good wholesome fresh ‘real food’ is not necessarily more expensive than the unhealthy alternatives that you are probably gorging on right now! You know those ‘high-fat’, ‘high-salt’, ‘heart attack inducing’ ‘ready meals’ you get in the local store and the ‘fast food muck’ that you get from those fast food chains and fast food outlets! Do yourself a favor - Stop making excuses and get out and start buying ‘fresh’ ingredients with which to make your own delicious healthy meals. Can't cook? Learn! Everything you need to know is available at your finger tips right now - It's called the internet... So, start searching!

Weight Loss Myths 5.  Cutting out all snacks can help you lose weight

Snacking per-se isn't the problem: it's the type of snack you eat. Many people, particularly active people need a snack in between meals to maintain energy levels. If you are following a fitness weight loss program you don't want to be cutting out all snacks, just the unhealthy ones. So, choose snacks wisely eg fruit or vegetables instead of crisps, chocolate and other snacks that are high in sugar or saturated fat.