Easy Ways To Lose Weight Fast - Are They Really Effective?
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Written by: Chloe Bishop
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Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 |
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Most people nowadays are looking for fast and easy ways to lose weight. We long to have lean, toned and attractive physique and yet we are not willing to work for it.
And this strong desire for easy ways to lose weight fast is exactly what the diet and weight loss industries are fully exploiting.
Ever heard these:
"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!"
If you really think about it - can you honestly believe their promises are true?
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?
Don't fall for these tricks again. Here are just 3 things (there are many others!) that shrewd marketers don't tell you amidst all the sales hype.
1. "Losing weight" is not necessarily a good thing.
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.
Technically they aren't lying to you when they say their methods are easy ways to lose weight fast. But you have to be clever enough to figure out that weight loss is not the goal to aim for.
You might as well have both of your legs amputated - you'll definitely lose weight instantly and permanently - and that's a guarantee!
2. Starving yourself makes you fatter!
Some weight loss products work by suppressing your appetite. What the salespeople and marketers don't tell you is that an extremely low calorie diet will actually make you fatter in the end.
Effectively, our body's response to starvation are to slow down our metabolisms and use lean muscle mass as fuel instead of burning off our body fat - 2 of the last things you want to happen when you're looking for ways to look lean and sculpted without much effort or time.
Is that what you really want?
3. The effects are not permanent.
Another problem with all these quick fix solutions is that you have to keep spending money on these products. After all, that's what they're designed to do: give you fast, easy solutions to symptoms but never the actual problem so that vendors get repeat customers.
If you look at the bigger picture, it's clear that although natural fat loss methods may take longer and requires more effort, at least the effects you'll benefit from are effective and longer lasting.
Conclusion
Don't aim to 'lose weight' - lose fat instead, and lose it using safe and permanent means.
An truly effective fat loss program includes the right combination of personalized nutrition, exercise and mental training.
As with all things worth having, having a fantastic body comes with a price, and youmust decide if you're willing to pay whatever it takes.
It's time to wake up and admit that if we can indeed buy our way into having the best bodies we can possibly have without putting in any effort, then how come more and more people are suffering with excess weight?
Recommendation
The best way to ensure you don't fall for such shenanigans is to educate yourself about how to eat well and exercise properly to achieve your own fat loss goals.
The best resource I've found about fat-burning and muscle building is Tom Venuto's Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle program.
I myself have used Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle, and while the results had been remarkable (I reached my target of 15% body fat within 84 days), what really worked for me was the whole process of how I succeeded. When I read Burn the Fat, I finally 'got' it, and from then on I was unstoppable. I had everything I needed to make it work: the motivation, the knowledge, and a proven way to find my very own fat loss formula.
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