How to lose weight faster - we all know in theory how to lose excess weight, we need to exercise and eat healthy food. Simple. Or is it? There are various methods people recommend for losing weight, and there are many products which claim to help you lose weight faster than any other. But what is true and what is hype? Can anyone really expect to lose weight without diet changes and regular exercise, as many weight loss products now claim? Let's find out.
Firstly, let us look at the most common method people use for trying to lose weight - diets. Dieting can mean different things, from making a sensible decision to change our diet slightly by eating more healthy foods, to the common "crash" diets and celebrity diet programs, which normally require drastically reducing the volume of food you eat for a set period, and often involve eating only one type of food or living on shakes containing "special" ingredients.
To be truthful, crash diets do not work, simply because it is not sustainable. Even if you can complete a week or two restricting your intake of food you will inevitably return to eating normally later, and any weight you have lost will return.
The single ingredient shakes and celebrity diets are interesting because they almost all claim the ingredient they use is the critical factor to losing weight. Actually, it does not matter what the ingredient is - if you only eat or drink one thing in small amounts over a period, you will lose weight. But again, its not sustainable. Who wants to live their life drinking foul tasting diet shakes? After you return to your previous intake of food, your weight will return.
Secondly, let us look at diet pills. We have all seen adverts claiming the latest miracle pill or supplement will make all the difference to our weight loss efforts. Can this be true? In a word, no. What is it diet pills actually do, and what do they contain?
There are two types, those containing drugs which affect the metabolism and increase consumption of calories, and those which are based on natural ingredients which likely make very little difference in reality. The drugs which have been created to help people lose weight are designed for one purpose and one purpose only - to help those who are dangerously obese. Doctors prescribe such drugs only as a last resort, where the combination of healthy diet and exercise are not possible.
Some companies are trying to sell diet medicines to ordinary healthy people, and presenting them as miracle cures. However this is misrepresenting what they were designed for. There are significant dangers in taking any medication you do not need, in addition there are known side effects and safety issues when such drugs are used for any length of time. In short, we should not be using drugs as a quick fix for weight loss, especially where the weight is simply due to lack of exercise and poor diet.
Even worse, there are some diet pills and supplements which have absolutely no recorded effect on patients, but are sold by unscrupulous profiteers as miracle diet drugs. The way to make sure you avoid such scams is simple - lose weight naturally, without using drugs and pills.
Pills, shakes, crash and celebrity diets - they will all fail, either because they simply don't work in the first place, or because it is not reasonable to expect people to continue such programs indefinitely. In many cases they are actually unhealthy, and some of the less reputable products are potentially dangerous.
The third option, the one which will actually get real results, is to follow a program which combines regular exercise with specific and long term changes to your diet. Unsurprisingly, such programs require a little effort, and so aren't as popular as the supposed "miracle" pills or crash diets, and are not as easy to sell to desperate buyers. But here is the amazing thing - these "real" programs work. You will, absolutely, lose weight fast if you just stick to a well designed and (critically) an achievable program. And there is no need to start running miles every day or restrict your diet to broccoli and bran flakes to achieve this.
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