The Pitfalls of Rapid Weight Loss

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

The exploitation of people who want to lose weight is endemic. Everyone is in on the fact and once they realize that you are vulnerable, they start targeting you with mail shots and emails and all sorts of promotional activities. You find yourself running from one fad diet to the other and trying out things that you would normally consider to be utterly ridiculous just in order to get a chance at losing weight. You may end up looking like some kind of pathetic creature, desperately trying to fit in and paying a heavy price for that privilege. The simple formula is this. Use more calories than you consume and the weight will start to reduce. There is simply no other healthy way unless you are suffering from a disease.

The obsession with fad diets is but one of the crucial things to be avoided when attempting to lose weight fairly quickly. Attached to the diets are some of the appalling nutritional habits that people adopt when trying to lose weight. They starve themselves and then when it comes to eating, they are so hungry that they end up eating far more than they would normally do such that the weight goes straight back on. Whatever you do, avoid skipping meals in the vain hope that it will reduce your calorie intake. All that will happen is that you will lead a miserable existence but still binge eat to ensure that you maintain a high calorie intake.
The mistake that people make is to believe that pills and medicines are the final solution to their problems. First of all it is dangerous to take medication without first obtaining a prescription from a health professional. Medication comes with its own risks of dependency and health related problems. You really need to lose weight in the most natural way possible rather than always relying on artificial aids. There are no quick fixes here. It requires plenty of hard work to get to your ideal weight

The thing is to have poor exercise skills and habits. Some people will not attempt to balance out their cardio training with the strength training. They will choose the option that best suits their desires or the easier one to undertake. As a result some areas of the body are over exercised while others do not get a look in. This is not consistent or effective weight loss control. It is rather a haphazard attempt to take a short cut and do the things that are easy.

Welcome to the Fat Melter Blog

Friday, January 22, 2010

I welcome you to the fat-melter blog. We are declaring war on fat and I would like you to join in my campaign. I have opened this blog to share some of the information I gather from different places and also to give you an opportunity to comment and criticize. There are other sister-blogs on the blog roll which you can visit as well. In order to be able to melt fat, we need to control the diets as well as well as exercise. The blog will pick up from the previous blogs about tips to help people control their weight.

Crash diets are a favored repost for people who want a quick fix solution to their weight problems. These are short term diets that create a cycle of bingeing and then extreme deprivation without really helping the person to adjust their weight in a healthy manner. If you want to control your weight on a long-term basis, crash diets have to be eliminated from your routine. They are stressful and do not allow you to live a normal life. In fact experience shows that people put back all the weight they have lost and might even end up getting heavier than before.
The slow eating movement has taken root in some communities and it helps in the overall improvement of the health of the people who experience it. The time that it takes to chew food properly will help in terms of digestive health. When you are eating slowly, you release saliva that will enable the proper digestion of food. Some people have reported eating less as a result of chewing food properly.

Although alcohol is not encouraged, you might be in a position where you must buy some. In that case it is important to know the difference between different alcohol types as well as their impact on your diet. Generally dry wine is preferred to the sweet variety because the sweet wines contain lots of sugar whereas in dry wines the sugar has been substantially reduced by the process of fermentation.

Dry wine is better than sweet wine. Sweet wines naturally contain a lot of sugar. But on the other hand, in dry wines most of this sugar has been fermented away so from the weight point of view dry wines are better than sweet wines.
That is the opening post guys. I hope you can contribute to this new blog and challenge me to provide even more stimulating content for you over the next few months.