Easy Ways To Lose Weight Fast – Are They Really Effective?
June 30th, 2009 by Chloe Bishop
More and more people these days want easy ways to lose weight – and FAST. We want bodies that are sexy, slim, well-defined, and muscular but are we willing to give the effort, time, or hard work needed to achieve it? No.
And this strong desire for easy ways to lose weight fast is exactly what the diet and weight loss industries are fully exploiting.
Do these sound familiar:
“Simply peel and stick to burn fat and lose weight!” (ad selling diet patches)
“This will change your body in 3 minutes a day!” (ad selling a “revolutionary” – and extortionate – exercise machine)
“Forget about long, difficult exercises! We have a range of treatments and surgeries to make you lose weight…”
“Take this pill, go to bed… wake up skinny! It’s magic!”
Sound familiar?
Because weight loss is an emotional issue for many, it’s not surprising that many people fall for these scams.
Sure they are just doing their jobs – but don’t you think you deserve to make a well-informed and educated purchasing decision?
They say when it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is. So before you fall for any of the hype again, remember these 3 things being kept from you by most marketers of quick fix weight loss solutions:
1. “Losing weight” could mean you’re only losing water from your body!
Most (if not all) body wraps, slimming teas, and toning creams work mainly by eliminating water from your body.
Here’s the rub- our body is 75% water!! Lose some water and you’ll lose weight, but you’ll still have the same amount of fat!
But you gotta hand it to them – dehydration IS an easy way to lose weight fast! Clever, indeed.
If you really want to lose weight and don’t care how, you might as well have your arms and legs cut off – that’s permanent weight loss, alright!
2. Starvation or an extreme low-calorie diet will not necessarily make you lose fat.
Another “easy ways to lose weight fast” solutions are pills and potions designed to make you lose appetite. An extremely low-calorie diet can work in the short term, but over a prolonged period of time, our body’s starvation response mechanism kicks in, ultimately causing our bodies to hoard fat.
When you starve yourself, you may lose weight at the start due to the big calorie deficit, but eventually your body thinks it’s starving to death so it switches to survival mode. When this happens, it burns off your muscles for fuel, conserves energy by decreasing your metabolism and – horror of horrors – keeps your body fat.
Is that what you really want?
3. Many quick fix solutions don’t work for the long-term.
Perhaps the most disturbing truth is that the benefits you get from buying all these “miraculous” products (if they work at all) are at best, temporary. That’s why you need to keep spending on them to “keep getting” the promised effects.
Doesn’t sound too good now, does it?
Conclusion
Don’t aim to ‘lose weight’ – lose fat instead, and lose it using safe and permanent means.
When it comes to fat loss, there are only 3 things that work effectively, inexpensively and healthily: proper nutrition, regular exercise, and a positive attitude or mindset.
The results using these proven and tested methods may come slower, but the fat loss will be steady and permanent.
Don’t be fooled and believe that there are magic potions/creams/pills out there that can magically transform your body without much effort on your part. If there are such magical solutions, we would all be consuming them!
Recommendation
Still the best way to see what fat loss program really works is to learn from those who have already walked the path, and see how the same methods they’ve used can benefit your own body.
The most comprehensive fat loss program I’ve found is Tom Venuto’s Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle program.
Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle is touted as the “Fat Loss Bible” because no other book covers the confusing subject of fat loss as comprehensively.
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