The 6 Most Important Weight Loss Tips, Part 1
The first thing that people consider doing when they realize they need to lose weight is to stop eating; or at least drastically reduce what they have been eating. This is not the best choice as doing so could be detrimental to a persons health. This article outlines the most important tips people need to know before starting a diet.
Although reducing food consumption can have an immediate effect on your weight it is a short lived effect and any weight loss will quickly stop once the body has adapted to a lower intake of calories. So what most people need are guidelines or weight loss tips so they can effectively and safely lose weight and this is what this article will provide you with.
1. Beware of Crash Diets:
Crash diets are not good for your health. By lowering the intake of calories,
sometimes by enormous amounts depending on the diet followed, can cause serious problems to your health. What happens is that your body begins to digest the fat that is stored as there is no energy being consumed in the shape of food. This in itself sounds great, but the fat the body burns uses what little energy has been taken onboard. As a result you will suffer from extreme tiredness, illness and a weak immune system that leaves you less able to fight off even minor strains of infections.
A good way to avoid this problem is to use a weight loss program that uses a method called calorie shifting. This method encourages eating the right types of food, the foods in turn maintain a high metabolism and this in turn results in increase weight loss with the negative effects of a low calorie diet! You can check out such a weight loss program at the end of this article.
2. Eating properly:
This was touched on briefly at the end of point one. There are two types of food, good and bad. The good food contains lots of foods that have, what are known as, negative calorie values. A food with a negative calorie value is a food that contains fewer calories than what the body uses to digest it. Therefore, if you take an apple for example that has a calorific value of 100, and eat it, you will burn off 50 more calories than the apple contains, as it takes 150 calories to digest the apple! A diet that comprises completely of negative calorie foods will practically guarantee weight loss.
On the other hand though there are many foods that contain empty calories, and these are the nemesis of the negative calorie foods and are very much what we are looking to avoid or limit in our diet. All foods that contain empty calories are referred to as junk foods; and amongst these are items like red meat, white bread, cakes, biscuits, anything that has a high sugar count, chips and many more besides.
I'm guessing right now that you have just readthat short list and thought to yourself that you are going to have to give up eating everything you enjoy.
That is not what losing weight is about, it isn't about not permiting yourself things you enjoy, it's about managing what you eat so that you are able to eat things you enjoy without putting your health at risk by being overweight.
