Hi, thank you for dropping by. My name is Angela (that’s me to the right). I’m dismayed, indeed angry, that so many people get bad advice about losing weight. I hope this blog will help redress the balance.
‘How to lose weight quickly’ diets are all over the media, on television and websites, magazines and books.
Many 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: following set menus and eating plans can help lose weight.
Reality: most diet books and weight loss plans promote set menus of what to eat when. This never works because food preferences and lifestyles vary so much. Indeed, by following any kind of set food menus, day in day out, you
are more likely to gain weight because you will either go hungry or get too bored with the monotony. Then when you give up the set menus you will quickly re-gain your weight (and more) as you go back to your old eating habits.
Myth: eating whole grain and fiber-rich foods is healthy and will help you lose weight.
Reality: whole grains are no healthier than milled grains, and do nothing to promote good health or help you lose weight. Furthermore, there is plenty of scientific evidence showing that a high-fiber diet is bad for health. Fiber robs the body of vitamins and minerals. This leads to poor nutrition, which in turn prevents safe and healthy weight loss. We do not need much fiber in our daily diets and getting enough is very easy. Exhortations to eat more fiber are counter-productive.
Myth: cellulite is different to regular body fat and is caused by being overweight.
Reality: cellulite is identical to regular body fat because it is in fact just that – regular body fat, no less, no more. It is referred to as “cellulite” when it bulges up to the extent that it can be seen through the skin. Furthermore, cellulite is not caused by being overweight as slim people are equally affected.
Myth: fruit juice is non-fattening and healthy, 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: you should eat less and exercise to lose weight.
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 you make yourself feel more hungry and exhausted, and you end up stuffing yourself with junk food which just makes you fatter. The secret is to exercise the smart way so that you don’t feel hungry and exhausted.
Myth: drink less water so as to reduce water retention and feel less bloated.
Reality: you must drink plenty of water to lose water retention (not less!). When you drink plenty of water the body will “think” it no longer needs to retain water in body tissue, and you quickly lose excess water. Note: excess water is not actually retained in body fat, it is retained in arteries and veins in the form of excess blood and body fluids.
Myth: a good way to lose weight is to increase your metabolic rate so as to burn fat fast.
Reality: your heart should sink when you come across such ridiculous notions. The metabolic rate is nothing more than a set of many different chemical reactions inside the body. Some of these chemical reactions work faster than others at different times of the day or night depending on a multitude of factors. In fact, fatter people tend to have higher metabolic rates (i.e. burn fat/energy faster) because of their higher body mass. To use (or attempt to control) the metabolic rate as a way of losing weight is like using a table-tennis ball to play tennis (impossible!).
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.
You definitely don’t want to lose weight in a week and then put it all back the week after. Yo-yo dieting ruins your health and prevents weight loss. You want to lose weight quickly, but permanently. All human beings are the same biologically. Therefore there can only be one best way for a human being to lose weight quickly, safely, and permanently.
In recent years medical research into weight loss has made exciting discoveries and now there is a kind of consensus on the best way for any human being to lose weight safely and quickly. To find out more I urge you to go to www.the-foolproof-diet.com. I make no money out of this so I’m not giving you a sales pitch, but if you are at all overweight you absolutely must see The Foolproof Diet. For the sake of a few minutes of your time to check this you can totally change your life. You really can now lose weight quickly and easily, without fail. As soon as I started to use The Foolproof Diet I just knew this was it. You owe it to yourself to at least have a quick look.
How To Lose Weight
Hi
It astounds me how there are so many misconceptions about dieting and weight loss. Weight Watchers offer’s lots of good advice on weight loss, but even Weight Watchers falls prey to a major misunderstanding about weight loss. Weight Watchers states on its website: “The only scientifically proven method for losing weight involves burning more calories than are taken in”.
There is increasing research to show that this in fact is not so. Of course, mathematically speaking, if you take in more calories than the amount that get used up (burnt), then the body will accumulate more and more calories and you get fatter. But this is false logic when it comes to human weight loss.
The humand body does not work like this. What counts is how the body deals with the calories. If more calories get stored as body fat instead of being stored as energy in muscles, then you put on weight. If more calores get stored as energy in muscles (for burning off as you go about your normal life) instead of being stored as body fat, then you lose excess weight.
The critical issue here is to ensure the body stores more calories as energy and less as body fat. How do you do this? Any effective weight loss regime must be fully focused on this single issue – making sure that the food we eat is “optimized” by the body for energy rather than for fat. I will cover this issue in future blogs.
Angela
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You bring up some good points…I’d like to know what you would advise in my situation. My goal is to shed about 15 pounds in the next couple of months. But there are so many different “systems” out there and I have no idea which one to trust. Can somebody point me towards a good plan for burning fat and adding solid muscle?
Hi Colton
You´re right, there are so many weight loss sytems out there it gets very confusing. I was in this same situation myself. Quite frankly the best advice I can give you is to to go http://www.the-foolproof-diet.com and get this book. It will be the answer to your prayers, as it shows the quickest, best way to lose weight. All the best, Angela
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Good stuff, thanks…I’d like to know what you would advise in my situation. Right now I’m aiming to shed around 20 pounds, get six pack abs and add muscle mass to my frame. But there are such a huge number of “systems” out there and I have no idea which one to trust. Can somebody point me towards a good plan for burning fat and packing on muscle?
My goal right now is to get ripped six pack abs and it’s pretty challenging. Do you have any suggestions as far as a good six pack abs diet? I’ve heard that egg whites, oatmeal, salmon, blueberries and broccoli are all important to include in your diet…anything else I’m not thinking of?
Since all human bodies are the same biologically speaking, there is only one good way to achieve a good, strong body with good muscle mass and a six pack to boot. This is acheived by the same principles advocated for losing weight. It seems a contradiction doesn’t it? How can a weight loss system also serve to put on body mass? Here is the explanation: the only way to acheive strong muscles (apart from suitable exercise) is to lose surplus body fat. When you lose surplus body fat and do suitable exercise (and eat a nutritious diet) you gain stronger muscles. This in turn enables your body to store more energy (all energy is stored in muscles). Stonger muscles makes men look and women look better (men more masculine, women more feminine). For a full explanation of how to do this quickly and effectively I urge you to see http://www.the-foolproof-diet.com. This book is truly the only way to go when it comes to acheiving the perfect body weight, in a healthy, natural way, without the use of drugs or steroids.
Precisely!Based mostly on my not so average experience(i was 290now 186 pounds) proper weight reduction program whilst mixed with drugs and lifelike objective in specified time-frame will all the time be the proper path, however, if i may add, crucial part is to alter way of life and get rid of any further chubby problems!
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I’m working on getting six pack abs right now and it’s pretty challenging. Do you have any tips as far as a good six pack abs diet? My trainer says that egg whites, oatmeal, salmon, blueberries and broccoli are all important to incorporate into your diet…are there any other foods I should include to build muscle and get ripped abs?
Hi Jacqueline, thanks for your kind comments. We need to discuss this subject because it is surrounded by so many miunderstandings. For instance, you often come across the phrase “do exercies to burn fat” or “exercise makes you burn fat and lose weight”. This is not so. When you exercise, the muscles being exercised will gradually grow stronger with time if the exercise is done on a regular basis. When the muscles get stronger, this increases the muscles’s capacity to store more energy. This in turn make you more energetic generally and more likely to be active generally. Exercise does not burn fat at all – not in any cirsumstances. However, when your muscles can store more energy, more of the food you eat will end up as energy and less will end up as fat. Any left over energy from the food you eat gets stored as fat as soon as the muscles have been “topped up with energy”. So the bigger the muscles, the smaller the amount of food fat storage. Exercise must be gradual and regular to gradually build up muscle strength. Any vigurous or execissive exercise done to exhaustion so as “burn fat” is ridiculous and counter productive and will not burn any fat at all. Exercise plans based on “burning so many calories” are equally ridiculous and nonsensical. In the context of losing weight, the only reason to do exercise is to gradually and gently build up muscle strength. This is how exercise helps you lose weight.
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It’s getting tougher as I get older, almost 35. I used to be able to drop 10 pounds pretty easily but now I have to put in a lot of effort just to MAINTAIN my weight. It sucks. Writing everything down is a good tip, and a real eye opener. Gives you solid evidence of what’s going into your body and which meals are doing the most damage.
If you are consuming high amounts of protein be sure to drink at least 6-8 glasses of water per day.
That’s good advice Wenona, thanks. Generally, it’s best to get your protein from plant-based sources rather than from animal sources. That way your body gets the right type and right amount of protein (which it makes from the amino acids that you eat). Consuming animal protein always results in excess protein dumped into the body and this causes toxicity and is bad for health. Regards to all, Angela.
I have struggled with weight loss for a while. Only now am I finding success.