Easy Ways To Lose Weight Fast – Are They Really Effective?
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
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.
This overwhelming demand for miracle cures is exactly what’s fueling the scams that many diet and weight loss companies are perpetuating.
Do these sound familiar:
“Simply peel and stick to burn fat and lose weight!” (ad selling diet patches)
“This product will change your body in 4 minutes a day!”
“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.
Others may call it “business”, but surely when you are paying for something, you ought to know the truth about what it can (and cannot) do for you, right?
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!
Many of these quick-fix weight loss “solutions” like slimming teas, cellulite creams, body wraps, etc. only make you lose bodily fluids.
Losing water changes nothing about how much body fat you have. Remember that your body is 75% water. It’s sick that their strategy for making you lose weight is by dehydrating you.
But you gotta hand it to them – dehydration IS an easy way to lose weight fast! Clever, indeed.
Losing weight by dehydrating yourself is obviously ineffective, and the weight loss effect hardly lasts. Buying these miracle cures is just like patching up a hole on your shirt – it may patch up the hole, but it doesn’t make you look good nor solve the problem.
2. When You Starve Yourself, You Lose Muscle Mass and Keep the fat!
Suppressing your appetite is how some quick fix solutions work. Suppressing your appetite means you’ll be on a low calorie diet, but this method is flawed because ultimately an extremely low-calorie diet makes your body hoard fat.
The problem is that our body responds to starvation by hoarding fat, cannibalizing on our muscles and shutting down our metabolism – 3 of the worst possible things that can happen if your goal is to lose fat and acquire a toned look as efficiently as possible.
Is that what you really want?
3. The effects of many quick fix solutions are only for the short-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
A more worthy objective to aim for (instead of weight loss) is fat loss. Measure your body fat percentage and aim to decrease it using healthy methods that will give you lasting benefits.
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.
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
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 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.
