Myth 1 - Starving makes you lose weight fast
Myth 2 - Low carbohydrate diets make you lose weight quickly.
Myth 3 - Eating sugar free or fat free foods will promote weight loss.
Myth 4 - Wearing rubber or plastic based belly wraps will help burn fat.
Myth 5- Salads are healthy so I can eat all the salad I want.
Myth 6 - Working out allows you to eat whatever you want.
Myth 7 - Juice diets help you to burn fat.
Myth 8 - Magic weight loss pills allow you to lose weight while not dieting or exercising.
Myth 9 - Exercising for hours a day is good for losing weight.
Myth 10 - Sit ups are the best way to lose belly fat.
Weight Loss 7 Comments bijou on 10/18/10#5 deserves a caveat: One certainly can eat all the salad s/he wants provided it's not doused in gallons of high-calorie dressing and/or spiked with high-calorie fixings such as nuts, croutons, bacon, avocado, etc. If it's just leafy greens and other raw vegetables, feel free to eat a bathtubful of it if you can.
#9 caveat: Exercising hours a day certainly is good for losing weight, but be sure you can keep it up for the rest of your life if you want to keep the weight off. Oh, and said hours of exercise will be useless if one does not change eating habits as well.
Reply Dan on 10/18/10I would say that it would take hours of exercise to lose weight without changing one's eating habits. When I was a teenager, when I swam with the swim team several hours a day, I could lose weight, no matter how much I ate, nor how badly. If a person changes their eating habits, they can lose weight without exercising so much. One cannot eat "all"
that one wants to eat if one exercises vigorously, but one can certainly eat more than if they were completely sedentary. I lost 100 pounds hardly ever going below 2000 calories for the day, since I exercised regularly. I also found I lost weight at any calorie level less than 3000. I maintain my new weight of 6 foot and 158 pounds with over 3000 calories a day, since I still bike at least an hour everyday. However, eating "all" that I would like to eat would probably be in the neighborhood of 10-20,000 calories a day. Also, many people would have to practically starve themselves to lose weight if they didn't exercise. Exercise and some calorie restriction have to balanced out. Exercise enables persons to lose weight without severe caloric restriction, but there has to be moderation. It is difficult to lose weight by either diet or exercise alone, although exercise alone works better in youth than at my age of almost 50. Diet alone would work better in persons who have higher metabolic rates. Remember that 95% percent of people who do diet alone gain their weight back.
Agreed, starving yourself does not help you lose weight. I like you Dan have lost 15lbs just by eating around 1800-2500 cals of clean food a day and exercising regularly. Cutting calories like crazy won't help you loes weight. I could never survive off of only 1500 cals. Im 5'5" 125 lbs and that's what is always recommended to me. Crazy!
Reply Auden on 10/19/10I think all of these myths point to one of the largest problems that people face trying to lose weight - the desire to find a simple, catch-all solution to what is probably a very complicated issue. Very few severely overweight or obese people are in such a state simply because they eat too much sugar, or too many carbs, or are sedentary. It is probably a combination of all of those things, and a host of other physical/emotional factors. Most successful, long-term weight losers probably draw on aspects of a number of the "myths" you have written about, Raffy, but simply in moderation.
For example, I added exercise while cutting back on carbs (still eat plenty, though, believe you me), trying to stay away from the sugary/sweet foods (while simultaneously attempting to shun artificial sweeteners, save for the occasional diet Coke relapse), loading up on salads, and even allowing myself to feel hungry sometimes. All of those are moderate offshoots of the 10 myths, but none of them were the solution in itself (and bijou's caveat about salads is a good one). But I think one also has to have a good filter about what works for the individual. Some diet advice makes sense for some people, but not for others. For example, while many Americans probably eat too many fatty foods, reducing fat intake was the last thing I needed to do. I was one of the victims of the low-fat, high-carb diet that I believe has made so many Americans overweight. I actually saw dramatic results once I INCREASED my fat intake...
Reply Dan on 10/19/10Were you on a low fat, high refined carbohydrate diet? Dean Ornish actually proscribes refined sugars on his diet. I think what actually didn't help were these high sugar, but low fat snacks that people thought they could eat all they wanted of. A naturally low fat diet is a Vegan diet, like the Ornish, or the diet that Neal Barnard has helped persons reverse type 2 diabetes on. It only includes non-refined, high fiber, complex carbohydrates. The only simple carbs included are those from fruit. Studies actually show that Vegans generally weigh less and have less heart disease than persons eating high saturated fat meat and dairy.
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