subject: Think You Know Everything About Losing Weight? Check Out These 4 Weight Loss Myths [print this page] If you're the type of person who attends gyms regularly and eats a well-balanced diet, enjoys keeping your weight at an acceptable level and your body toned and in shape, it's likely that you'll think you already know everything there is to know about losing weight.
Whilst there is no doubt that you do have a good grasp on weight loss knowledge, there are some facts that you've learnt that may actually be myths, with the following 5 being the most popular.
1. You should never eat at night - whilst this isn't entirely a myth, it's not completely true either.
It's understandable to think that you shouldn't eat late at night because if you're going straight to bed, you won't be carrying out any form of exercise to work it off, which you would if you ate earlier in the evening.
However, the main problem with that is there's no difference eating at 7.00pm than there is at 11.00pm if you weren't going to work out anyway - you're just more likely to consume more calories late at night as you're more tired and less likely to be bothered about keeping an eye on your calorie intake.
2. Regular meal times are important - unless you're looking at the fact that it's recommended to have set meal times when you have children so to keep them in a routine, there's no benefit to eating at the same time every day if you're trying to lose weight.
A lot of people do as they find it easier to manage their diets this way, but there has been no scientific evidence to prove that eating, for example, your lunch at different times throughout the week is going to have a majorly detrimental affect on your weight loss.
3. Pasta and bread are fattening - it's easy to understand why some people believe foods that are high in carbohydrates are also high in fats, as carbs are the food type that your body uses for energy and so retains them for use later. Therefore, if you don't work them off or use the stored energy in anyway, your body will tend to hold onto it, meaning if you do this regularly, you'll start to pile on the pounds.
If you do spend the time working out after you've consumed some carbohydrates - or reducing your intake slightly if you're not - then there's no major problem in eating carbohydrates; and they certainly aren't high in fats in general.
4. Muscle weighs more than fat - arguably one of the most common misconceptions in respect of weight loss; think about it this way - what weighs more, a pound of stones or a pound of feathers? The answer is that they both weigh exactly the same; it's just that you won't need as many stones to make up a pound as you would feathers.
You may find that if you're going to gyms regularly and losing fat but developing muscle that your body weight doesn't change as drastically as you'd expect it to as your muscles are getting bigger, but there is no truth behind the fact that muscle weighs more than fat.
by: Paul Delaney
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