25 Myths about Weight Loss
Do you eat cellulose and drink diuretic tea hoping to get rid of odd kilos? Say STOP to yourself! You fell into web of myths for those who are losing flesh. We’ll help you to get out of a scrape.
1. Starvation diet is the shortest way.
In this way you can improve your health but not get thin. At first, you are losing weight, buying new dresses but then you are becoming twice fatter and cant fit yourself into your old jeans. But if nevertheless you want to go without food try to do this no longer 2-3 days.
2. Cholesterol is the main enemy.
Dont make fatal mistake dashing aside products containing cholesterol. Giving up them completely you are taking the risk to upset your menstrual cycle and stop reacting the sweethearts petting as cholesterol is the starting material for sex hormones producing.
3. Its possible to trick your stomach.
Cellulose that fills the stomach unnaturally takes the nutrients and minerals out of the body, which very often leads to stool retention. Furthermore, you do not feel satiated. The stomach is full but you are still terribly hungry.
4. Weight loss teas are safe.
There are no absolutely safe drugs. If you do not consider the contradictions, you are going to know a lot about gastritis and chronic diarrhea. Retribution will come to you in approximately 3 days – ache and burning in your stomach or subitaneous catharsis.
5. Thai pills.
The help but for what a price! You hurt the mitral valve, liver and kidneys. And weight loss (often very slight) is reached by means of appetite removal, diuretic and aperient effects. These pills have no specific ingredients.
6. Vegetarianism saves from spare kilos.
This is by no means always the case. You can gain the weight eating vegetables if you do not count calories and overeat. And full giving-up animal proteins in our climatic zone may not only worsen your health but also influence your abilities to add and subtract two-digit numbers in mind.
7. The more I look after my weight the more I am attractive for men.
This statement has one a very important side effect. As soon as you tell about your intention to lose weigh everybody start to catch sight of your kilos. Its impossible to deceive a man – he will notice your spare kilos and you will not get encouragement from him. The stronger sex can’t bear both too thin women and those concentrated on the diets.
8. Fat burners help to get rid of cumulated weight.
This statement is partially true but the main point is to grasp the terminology. Burners are often confused with the drugs, which prevent from fat cumulating. In this case, the weight you have already gained remains unaffected.
9. Taking of laxative is doubly useful – purgation plus weight loss.
After one-time procedure, you will really feel better but if you exhaust your body with clysters and laxatives almost every day bowels may lose its natural microflora. By the way, this will slightly influence your weight if, of course you dont have a dozen kilos of one hundred years old calcification beds.
10. Sport experiments
If you decided to go in for sport ask yourself if you will be able to go on especially if the matter concerns regular trainings in gyms or aerobics. To give up means just to put kilos on your waist yourself.
11. It is possible to get thin with the help of diuretic agents.
The weight of course will get less but exclusively because of the fluid loss. Youll have the exsiccosis, hurt the kidneys and skin but you wont get rid of kilos. In any case, your body will get the necessary quantity of fluid back.
12. I want to have no more than 50 kilos weight.
You can also set such a task to yourself. You can quite easy fulfill it if your height is no more than 160 sm. But if you do all your best and reach the weight of 48 kilos you may say good buy to your monthlies. I shall not say about after-effects that are more serious.
13. Purification from slags.
Dont forget to drink more during the course of getting rid of hateful fat. Any purifying drugs – teas, tablets, and diets demand increased liquid consummation. Otherwise, you can have the serious problems with your health.
14. Tablets for fast weight loss.
If they are not properly combined with diet and fitness, they will hardly act. Furthermore, the fat will disappear unevenly. To improve the waist and hips contours you will not be able to avoid special gymnastics, massage and beauty shop procedures.
15. It is useful to lose weight with raw vegetables and fruit.
This may result in protein and adipose deficiency and it is terribly difficult as raw vegetative food does not make you full and stretches the stomach. Youll be hungry all the time and at the lack of will power the appetizing chicken trotter will soon emerge on your plate instead of a green lettuce.
16. Atkins diet is an easy way to success.
You can eat much meat and rich food but it is necessary to refuse completely from all the carbohydrates that is the main point of this diet, which is nowadays very popular especially with Americans. But will you be able to stay without desserts, rolls and fruit? Only the incorrigible meat eaters are able to this. Furthermore, Atkins diet sharply changes metabolism and is right only for very healthy young people.
17. You should eat as little as possible.
It is true but it not always possible to lose weight by this. Your organism gets rid easily only with spare kilos. Otherwise, it being hungry spends all the nutritive materials for fat storage making will reduce energy lose by means of reducing body temperature for fractions of degree. The heart will work slowly, you will get hypotension and low muscle tone. You will sleep more and move less. Your body will stand up for itself and you will be the loser.
18. That diet is good which helps the others.
The diet results are very individual and if your girl-friend lost 20 kilos this does not means at all that the same diet will take away 2 your spare kilos. Besides, there is no good in suffering from the food you hate.
19. Miss the lunch and you’ll lose weight.
Some people really eat twice a day and that is their norm. But this eating regime is irrelevant to weight loss. If you miss your lunch, you’ll eat twice more at dinner.
20. It is enough not to eat after 6 p.m.
Of course if you finish working at 5 and you are at home in half an hour it is easy to observe this rule. But if you come home no earlier 9 p.m. and go to bed after 12 this is not right for you. Have the last meal 3-4 hours before going to bed.
21. One banquet wont do the diet any harm.
Avoid any feasts when keeping the diet otherwise the results may be tragic. Such thoughts as: Only a piece and no more cant prevent you from breakdown. As the result, you get what youve had plus what youve not had.
22. Say goodbye to you figure after childbirth.
Of course, we want to return the former maid-figure as soon as possible. But at first, it will never be like it was and for second, you will lose not spare kilos but your health if you begin intensive flesh loss earlier than in a year after delivery.
23. I’ll start dieting on Monday.
If you always liked to eat, do not try to put yourself on a strict diet at once. Your organism will accept this as a hunger; you’ll have bad health state, low work capacity, terrible mood. It is better to reduce number of calories gradually.
24. If mother and granny are plump persons, I’ll never be slim.
It is true partially. A person of fatty sort will never be thin. But it is quite possible not to fatten up to granny’s size. Everything depends of nourishment style and way of life. 
25. Cellulite goes away together with spare kilos.
That’s right if you have intensive antycellulite treatment together with dietingver often orange-peel decorates thin hips.
Material prepared by staff writers
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Posted on September 15, 2007
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