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If you are not happy with your body weight, you are not alone. Millions of people all over the world feel the same. And while some are doing just nothing to fight excessive weight, most of them make constant attempts to improve themselves. Persistence is necessary when you try to lose fat but one aspect of losing fat that many people forget about is how is your health affected in the process.
Being slim and being healthy is not the same. So if your ideal weight is 130 lbs (or 65 kg), if you are determined not to stop till you reach 100 lbs, think again. There is a real health risk if you lose so much weight rapidly. And this is hardly what you intended. Losing fat is more than starving to death, while exercising 8 hours a day. There are some important tips for losing fat in a healthy way:
Lose fat wisely. Do
you need to lose fat and weight or transforming the fat in muscles
will do? Generally men prefer to lose fat and transform it in
muscles, while women are happy when they decrease their weight, no
matter if it is because of losing fat only or fat and muscles
altogether. Well, if you keep the fat, this will hardly make you
happier of your decreased weight, so the best to do is to lose both
fat and weight.
Sugar, sodas and alcohol.
Dieting is a topic of its own but for a start, you need to know that
some sugars and all sodas and alcohol are not healthy and in
addition to that they are diet killers. So they are included
automatically in the list of strictly forbidden nutrition.
Low-carb diets. Keeping a
diet that is low on carbohydrates is fashionable and healthy but
still carbohydrates are not chemical substances that one must
totally exclude from his or her diet. Besides, the long-term aspects
of low-carb diets are not studied yet. More on dieting can be found
here.
Exercise. Exercise is the
second cornerstone of successful fat loss. While rigorous exercise
cannot substitute diets, if you only decrease your daily input of
calories without exercising, your fat tissue will stay but it is
your muscles that will disappear.
A new diet or a new lifestyle?
Many people face this question. After you have tried every single
diet on Earth and the results are not long-lasting, you might give
up and decide that you are bound to have fat for the rest of your
life. Not necessarily so – in many cases fat is the result not
of excessive eating but of unbalanced nutrition and poor eating
habits. If you eat before going to bed in the evening, no wonder
that you have starved the whole day and the “prize” is a
few grams more. Or you don't exercise at all because exercise just
makes you hungry. If this is your case, what you need is not a new
diet but a new lifestyle.
Do not go to extremes. If
it took you 10 years to increase your weight by 20 kilograms,
attempts to get rid of these 20 kilograms in 10 weeks are risky at
best. Your body has adapted to your weight and if you start a sudden
and drastic weight loss program, your body will react to the shock
in a negative way.
Tight belts. Miracles
might happen from time to time but squeezing out the fat from around
your belly and hips is not a safe way to get rid of the fat in those
areas. On the contrary, extensive use of tight belts can cause real
damage to your kidneys and the other organs in that part of your
body, which is too expensive for decreasing your waist with 5
sentimeters.
Surgery is not a pill
that everybody can take safely. Since we are discussing healthy
ways to lose fat, surgery is not a topic that can be skipped. It
might look like a magic advancement of science that makes your
dreams come true but for most people surgery isn't a solution. For
the extremely obese people, for whom excessive weight (e.g. 100 lbs
or 50 kgs above the norm) is already a life-threatening condition
surgery can be a life-saver but for the majority of people it isn't.
If you are lured by the photos of celebrities that have lost fat
after surgery, you may want to take a look at other galleries as
well – those of unsuccessful surgical operations.
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