Everybody wants fast weight loss.
What they don't understand is that the body does not put on weight overnight and neither does it lose it overnight.
It is years of abuse and wrong eating habits that causes obesity and other weight related problems.
Solving them for the long haul will always take time and effort.
The desire to lose pounds quickly is propagated by so called wellness centers and miracle diets that promise to help you lose inches or kilos in less than a week.
The only problem is that the so-called fast weight loss comes predominantly from water and fat.
Therefore you just to need to start eating and drinking normally for it to come back, making you feel guiltier.
Secondly, the body is unnecessarily punished during the procedure or starvation diet guide that it is subjected to.
So you don't look or feel well at the end of it all.
Before we understand the science of losing weight, it is important to understand that actually the body is a very reasonable machine.
The amount of weight you put on is a result of eating more than your body requires every day.
One pound is roughly 3000 calories.
So to put on a pound in ten days, you would have over eaten approximately 300 calories per day.
To lose that amount you will need to create a deficit of 300 calories per day.
Losing weight is simply a mathematical equation.
You can either speed up the rate at which your body expends calories by exercising or decrease the input by watching what you eat.
Doing one in isolation of the other is difficult and hard on the body so all fitness experts recommend a combination of both diet control and exercise.
There is no other way to dropping the pounds whatever anybody else might say.
One might argue that they could achieve a quicker result by exercising all day and eating very little but at some point the body will not be able to take it causing other side effects and illnesses.
In fact you should never go below 1200 calories on any given day.
And exercise will need more fuel in the form of food - not eating would mean depriving the body of essential nutrients without which your body cannot function.
So that brings us to whether fast weight loss is a myth.
I would say that losing more than 2 pounds a week is probably not sustainable because what you are losing is not fat but water.
This is not to say that even the 2 pounds unless lost by the correct means will stay away.
If you were to consume only watermelon or celery for two days, you would probably see a difference, but at what cost? You will feel lethargic, irritated and at some point will resume your original diet.
The moment you do that, the weight will come back making the entire fast weight loss effort - a waste.
Ultimately to lose inches or pounds, you need to embark on a more holistic program that you need to stay on for life.
Don't attempt what you can't keep doing beyond the so called 'diet period'.
Make changes to your lifestyle to include better food choices, smaller portions and moderate exercise.
Your body will automatically come to its ideal weight.
Any other attempt to fast weight loss will backfire making you fat again, thereby de-motivating you.
What they don't understand is that the body does not put on weight overnight and neither does it lose it overnight.
It is years of abuse and wrong eating habits that causes obesity and other weight related problems.
Solving them for the long haul will always take time and effort.
The desire to lose pounds quickly is propagated by so called wellness centers and miracle diets that promise to help you lose inches or kilos in less than a week.
The only problem is that the so-called fast weight loss comes predominantly from water and fat.
Therefore you just to need to start eating and drinking normally for it to come back, making you feel guiltier.
Secondly, the body is unnecessarily punished during the procedure or starvation diet guide that it is subjected to.
So you don't look or feel well at the end of it all.
Before we understand the science of losing weight, it is important to understand that actually the body is a very reasonable machine.
The amount of weight you put on is a result of eating more than your body requires every day.
One pound is roughly 3000 calories.
So to put on a pound in ten days, you would have over eaten approximately 300 calories per day.
To lose that amount you will need to create a deficit of 300 calories per day.
Losing weight is simply a mathematical equation.
You can either speed up the rate at which your body expends calories by exercising or decrease the input by watching what you eat.
Doing one in isolation of the other is difficult and hard on the body so all fitness experts recommend a combination of both diet control and exercise.
There is no other way to dropping the pounds whatever anybody else might say.
One might argue that they could achieve a quicker result by exercising all day and eating very little but at some point the body will not be able to take it causing other side effects and illnesses.
In fact you should never go below 1200 calories on any given day.
And exercise will need more fuel in the form of food - not eating would mean depriving the body of essential nutrients without which your body cannot function.
So that brings us to whether fast weight loss is a myth.
I would say that losing more than 2 pounds a week is probably not sustainable because what you are losing is not fat but water.
This is not to say that even the 2 pounds unless lost by the correct means will stay away.
If you were to consume only watermelon or celery for two days, you would probably see a difference, but at what cost? You will feel lethargic, irritated and at some point will resume your original diet.
The moment you do that, the weight will come back making the entire fast weight loss effort - a waste.
Ultimately to lose inches or pounds, you need to embark on a more holistic program that you need to stay on for life.
Don't attempt what you can't keep doing beyond the so called 'diet period'.
Make changes to your lifestyle to include better food choices, smaller portions and moderate exercise.
Your body will automatically come to its ideal weight.
Any other attempt to fast weight loss will backfire making you fat again, thereby de-motivating you.