The Five Biggest Weight Loss and Fitness MythsWEIGHT LOSS AND FITNESS MYTH #1: Dieting will eliminate fat.
Your body can’t discriminate between intentional calorie deprivation (as in a diet), and starvation. When you dramatically reduce your caloric intake, your body shifts into a protective mode by slowing your metabolism down and holding onto fat (an important energy source) and burning muscle instead. In the beginning of a diet you WILL lose weight by dramatically cutting calories. But it won’t be fat loss, it will be water weight and lean muscle tissue – the exact OPPOSITE of what you want to get rid of. Not only will harsh diets slow your metabolism down to a crawl, causing your initial weight loss to come to a gradual halt, they will also inevitably bring about a “rebound” effect. This rebound will make you even fatter than you were before starting the diet. 
When you rebound, not only do you generally put on more weight than you actually lost with the diet, your percentage of body fat generally increases because your body cannibalized muscle tissue as an energy source during the dieting process. Thus the “yo-yo” effect that almost all dieters experience. To permanently lose the fat stores in your body, you’ve got to burn more calories and increase your metabolic rate (the rate at which your body burns fuel throughout the day – even when you’re NOT exercising) with a precise exercise routine and proper nutrient ratio adaptations (that means eating the right stuff at regular intervals). Even if you don’t exercise (but I recommend you do), just eating 5-6 small, high quality meals each day (and by a meal, I mean anything from a nutritious snack to a sit-down dinner) will substantially increase your metabolism – and you’ll burn more calories! Why People Fail to Lose Weight and Keep It Off and why they have not achieved physical change for good!The Road most chosen by ‘Career Dieters’.1. Caloric intake was too low to sustain metabolism. 2. Taking in significantly more fat than believed. 3. Consuming generous amounts of sugars and refined carbs. (Non-Supportive Carbs). 4. They are being misled "Dieting is not effective in controlling weight. You can get a temporary weight loss with a diet, but each scheme ultimately gives way to weight gain, and subsequent losses become increasingly difficult. Worst of all, you get progressively fatter on less food. Dieting actually makes you fatter!” -Dr. Lawrence Lamb, Author of "The Weighting Game: The truth about weight control.” "Cutting calories backfires. The more you cut, the more your body fights to hold onto its fat stores as reducing calories signals the “starvation response” where the body tries to “survive” and hold onto its calorie reservoir known as fat.” - Chris Aceto, author of “Everything you need to know about fat loss.” When you drastically reduce calories your body thinks its starving, so it slows down you metabolic rate (The Speed with which your body burns through food) to save fuel. You actually lose more muscle than fat during low calorie diets. And since muscular tissue burns more calories per hour than fat tissue, if you lose muscle mass your metabolic rate automatically slows down. Why is this happening?? Information Overload!!
No carbs! No fat! High Protein! 0 Carbs! Eat Cookies! Eat cabbage soup! Drink Slim Fast! Take this pill and lose weight! Do cardio only Do weight training only Go to www.amazon.com and enter diet in the product search. You will get 8,028 books!! There are 17,295 diet books, videos, weight loss programs, pill, potions and exercise gadgets found around the United States, and yet 65% of Americans are considered overweight or obese. Does this seem shocking to you too? What's going on here? How did we get to be a society that, quite frankly, is getting fatter by the day? I think a lot of it can be summed up in one word - Confusion The public - meaning you - is faced with an onslaught of new exercise devices, new miracle diets, and new procedures - all supposed to help you lose weight fast, and quick and easy. If only it were that simple. Click here to read 5 biggest weight loss myth # 2.
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