How To Lose Weight In A Week The Myths

     There are many 'How to lose weight quickly' diets all over the media, on television, websites, newsstands, radio, magazines and books.

Most 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 a few of the myths and misconceptions promoted by many weight loss gurus:

Myth: you should cut calories to lose weight.

Reality: reducing calories switches the body into thinking it must preserve fat, and so you end up gaining weight instead of losing weight.

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: foods with whole grains are no healthier than foods with milled grains. Whole grains do nothing to promote good health or help you lose weight. There is plenty of scientific evidence showing that a high-fiber diet is bad for health. Fiber robs the body of vitamins and minerals, leading to poor nutrition. This in turn prevents safe and healthy weight loss. In fact, we do not need much fiber in our daily diets and getting enough is very easy. Advice to eat more fiber is ill-founded and counter-productive in terms of weight loss.

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: to lose weight you should eat less and exercise more.

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: you should drink less water so as to reduce water retention and feel less bloated.

Reality: you should drink plenty of water to lose water retention and feel less bloated. By drinking plenty of water the body will "think" it no longer needs to retain water in body tissue, and you then quickly lose excess water.

Myth: you should increase your metabolic rate so as to burn fat and energy faster.

Reality: the metabolic rate cannot be controlled to lose weight. In fact, the metabolic rate is nothing more than a set of many different chemical reactions in all parts of the body. These chemical reactions are constantly in a state of flux, speeding up and slowing down at different times of day and night depending on a multitude of factors. Fatter people tend to have higher metabolic rates (i.e. burn fat/energy faster) because of their higher body mass. To try to control the metabolic rate as a way of losing weight is like using a table-tennis ball to play tennis (it won't work!).

How to lose weight in a week is a question on many people's minds. If you know how, you can begin to lose weight in a week, safely, quickly and easily. But most dietary advice about how to lose weight quickly is misguided. Also, if you don't do it right, attempts to lose weight can quickly will re-bound and you end up putting on more weight than you started with.

Naturally you don't want to lose weight in a week and then the week after regain all the lost weight. Yo-yo dieting is known to ruin health and prevent weight loss. The key is to lose weight quickly but permanently. We human beings are all the same biologically. And regardless of medical conditions, therefore there can only be one best way for a human being to lose weight permanently, quickly, and safely.

Medical research into weight loss has advanced tremendously in recent years, and now there is a good deal of consensus on the best way for any human being to lose weight safely and quickly. These discoveries have now been put into a book, and for further information see below.

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