by Chloe Bishop
Most people nowadays are looking for easy ways to lose weight fast. We long to have lean, toned and attractive physique and yet we are not willing to work for it.
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!”
What did you notice about them?
The sad thing is that most more us – in our desperation and helplessness – have fallen for these tricks.
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” is not necessarily a good thing.
One of the things marketers are hiding from you is that many of these miraculous wonder cures, wraps, potions and magic pills work solely by eliminating fluids from your body.
If that’s not setting off any alarm bells for you, here’s the thing: your body is 75% water! Naturally you can easily lose weight if you dehydrate yourself. The question is: will losing water make you less fat?
This is their idea of an easy way to lose weight fast?
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. When You Starve Yourself, You Lose Muscle Mass and Keep the 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. The effects are not permanent.
Another problem with all these quick fix solutions is that you have to keep spending money on these products. After all, that’s what they’re designed to do: give you fast, easy solutions to symptoms but never the actual problem so that vendors get repeat customers.
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.
An truly effective fat loss program includes the right combination of personalized nutrition, exercise and mental training.
The results using these proven and tested methods may come slower, but the fat loss will be steady and permanent.
It’s time to wake up and admit that if we can indeed buy our way into having the best bodies we can possibly have without putting in any effort, then how come more and more people are suffering with excess weight?
Recommendation
Many people fail to lose fat effectively because they don’t know what to do or how to do it. I say that the best way to to find out what works for you is by educating yourself using reliable sources and applying the principles you’ve learned.
The best resource I’ve found about fat-burning and muscle building 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.