Healthy Ways to Lose Weight
Mon, May 4, 2009
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If you glance at the magazines at the check out stands in the grocery store, you are sure to see a great number of weight loss tips. Most of them are weight loss supplementsand fad diet pills which generally do not work. We all know the healthy ways to lose weight involves diet and exercise But the weight loss business is fraught with misleading information and myths. Let us look at some of these myths.
Myth#1: Spot reduction of fat is possible: This cannot possibly be true .You cannot force your body to spot reduce your fat under any circumstances, no matter what type of workouts you do. [If you only do crunches and leg lifts regularly in the hope of reducing belly fat you will find that instead of elliminating your belly fat you will reduce the muscle mass that lies beneath the abdomen. Your focus should not be on crunches and leg lifts alone; you should also follow a healthy diet that would speed up your metabolic rate and help you burn fat fast.
. Myth#2: A drastic reduction of calorie intake reduces your body fat: This myth has pushed many a person to the brink of crash dieting. People take to crash dieting in the hope of shedding those extra pounds, not realizing that crash dieting could harm their bodies instead of helping them. As a matter of fact, when you starve or fast, your body believes that you are going to harm it and then it goes into the starvation mode. When in starvation mode, the body reduces its metabolic rate and uses the muscles rather than fat, which is kept in reserve for making energy. So the weight being lost is not fat; if anything it is muscle mass. And once you return to your normal diet,you will gain back not only the weight you lost, but even more pounds.
Myth#3: Doing only cardio exercises will help you lose weight: While it is true that cardio exercises can help you lose fat, it is not true that this is the only type of weight loss exercises available; don’t forget the aerobics. As a matter of fact, the amount of fat you will lose doing either cardio or aerobics is almost same. On the other hand, weight lifting is better than both cardio and aerobics, in that it not only helps you burn fat during the workout, but it also also strengthens your bones.
I hope that I have given you some insights on dieting myths and that you will find healthy ways to lose weight.
Tags: crash dieting, healthy ways to lose weight, Weight Loss
June 23rd, 2009 at 2:34 pm
Nice tips. Some people thought just by doing crunches, situps or leg raises, they are going to trim off their belly fat but that’s so untrue. These exercises will strengthen your ab muscles but you still need your cardio to burn fat and as a result, your abs will start to appear automatically.
Building muscles are also good. You can do some weight lifting or strength body weight training like push ups, pull ups. The more muscles, you have, the more active your metabolism will be and you will tend to burn more fat even without doing nothing.
June 30th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Another common weight loss myth - that skipping meals will help you lose weight. Studies have shown that people who skip breakfast and just eat a few times during the day tend to weigh more than people who eat a well-balanced breakfast and eat four or five times a day.