subject: Offbeat Ways To Lose Weight [print this page] Losing weightLosing weight. Everybody wants to do it but getting there is a drag. Diet and exercise don't work overnight. Maybe there's an easier way?
Here's 3 offbeat ways of losing weight for your consideration:
1. Take diet pills. There's an obvious attraction to taking a pill to lose weight. There's no tedious exercise involved, no hunger pangs due to cutting back on food. Taking diet pills to lose weight is the definition of wishful thinking. Diet pills work by either suppressing your appetite or by speeding up your metabolism and neither one of these methods is good for your body and can be potentially hazardous. Even if you did lose weight with diet pills, where does that leave you? You haven't changed your eating habits or your lifestyle and, as soon as you stop taking the pills, the weight is guaranteed to come right back.
2. Go on a fad diet. There seems to be no end of fad diets to choose from. You could go on an all baby food diet or maybe the diet that only allows you to eat foods that start with a "B". Eat all the bananas, broccoli and Brussels sprouts you want and you're guaranteed to lose weight. The problem with diets like these is not that they don't work. They usually do work. You will lose weight because of the calorie restrictions that they impose. The problem is that the diet has to come to an end eventually and when it does, your weight will come right back. You didn't change your eating habits or your exercise habits and soon you will be right back where you started.
3. Try going on a fast to lose weight and "detoxify" your system. There is a lot of evidence that this is a bad idea. Fasts and extreme restrictions in calories can damage your health if not done under qualified medical supervision. Also, there is no medically proven need to detoxify your body. Thanks to countless years of evolutionary changes your body already has all of the "detox" systems it needs in place right now to take care of any toxins that may accumulate in your body. Your lungs, liver, kidneys and skin have highly sophisticated mechanisms in place to naturally remove anything harmful to your health. They don't need your help.
Not too many of these ideas will really help you in your struggle to lose weight. Truth is, losing weight is only half the battle. What happens next is the important part. If you make healthy changes to your diet and get in the habit of exercise you'll be able to sustain the weight loss and keep it from coming back forever.
by: John Fleming.
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