Do you feel as though you’ve been doing everything right and yet you still can’t seem to lose weight at the rate you’d like? Do you really know about weight loss? Does it seem like you’ve been following every rule and yet your body just doesn’t want to let go of the fat? Maybe what you think you know about weight loss is actually wrong.
There is a lot of misinformation circulating as fact online, which makes it even harder to know about weight loss and what really is fact. If you are among the millions of people who fall for these false facts, you could be doing some serious damage to your ability to lose weight comfortably.
Consider the following things many people know about weight loss but that are actually wrong:
• Fat in foods will make you fat – Just because we call both food and the extra weight on our bodies by the same word doesn’t necessarily mean that one is the same as the other. The idea that dietary fat will lead to body fat is based on false logic and is quite incorrect. Certainly, fat is high in calories, but it is also a vital part of a healthful diet. Some types of fat can actually accelerate weight loss.
• Successful dieting is as easy as calories in versus calories out – if the number counting approach was all it took, then obesity wouldn’t be a problem. Moreover, it would also mean that if a person slashed 500 calories per day, they could lose one pound every week like clockwork. However, there is a great deal more to nutrition than calories and the same goes for the way calories and fats are burned by the body.
• Eating at night is devastating to a diet – after old wives tales have existed about this for decades, a very small amount of preliminary and conflicting evidence was treated as though it was proof. Unfortunately, other studies have indicated that when you eat your food doesn’t have much – if any – impact on weight gain or weight loss. It has an impact on energy levels, sleep and indigestion.
• You can sweat weight away – saunas, wraps and even neoprene clothing have been made promising to let you lose pounds in a matter of minutes simply by sweating it away. While you may lose weight and you may seem smaller, it doesn’t cause you to lose fat. The weight you’d lose through these methods is water stored in the tissues, not fat. It will return as soon as you are hydrated again.
