Fast Ways to Lose Weight - Good Things or Bad
It may take us a while to decide to take it off, but once the decision’s been made-we want the weight off today! When the modern dieter starts surfing the Net for diets, fast ways to lose weight seems to be the focus.
We live in a fast-paced society where waiting is a sin of sins. A fast solution may make us feel better, but when you look closely, the price is actually quite high.
Check it out yourself:
* Losing weight fast makes your body think it’s starving. The body’s response to this is to gain skill at storing and hanging on to fat-a skill it doesn’t forget easily.
* Cutting your calories dramatically makes it difficult to impossible to meet your nutritional needs. This is a genuine threat to your health.
* Believe it or not, rapid weight loss will trigger your body to consume its own muscle!
* Your body may become very acidic (because it really is starving) causing very bad breath.
* Your may find yourself suddenly binge eating-a normal response to being constantly hungry.
* A particularly devastating possibility is the lowering of your base metabolic rate (the ability to burn fewer calories while doing work).
* A lower metabolic rate will mean that you will gain weight eating less food than when you started your diet.
* Many people find constipation and other bowel related problems become an issue.
* Food deprivation tends to make you constantly obsessed about food.
Being realistic about highly emotional topics is important. For most people, dieting qualifies as emotional.
Being realistic here means that I am not going to insist that you stay away from fast ways to lose weight. The more emotional the topic, the more power the heart has over the brain.
Since these are serious consequences, compromise might be worth considering.
* Settle for losing as few pounds per month as you find tolerable.
* Consider taking supplements while you are dieting.
* Begin thinking and moving towards the long term of weight control through lifestyle changes.
* Be sure you engage in an exercise program to offset the body’s tendency to consume muscle tissue as well as fat.
Of course a great consideration would be to move to lifestyle changing right off the bat-but we said we wouldn’t get into that, didn’t we.
