Rapid Weight Loss Ideas vs. Healthy Weight Loss Tips
If you have a lot of weight to lose, you probably look for rapid weight loss ideas, right? However, you should know that most are bound to fail, and here’s why - along with some healthy weight loss tips that help you in the long run.
So let’s see first why rapid weight loss ideas don’t work.
If you are like most people wanting to lose a lot of weight quickly, you’ve probably tried a few conventional diets only to suffer the disappointment of gaining back the weight and then some. Are you wondering why?
Because most conventional diets are low calorie - approx. 1,000-1,200 calories/day. But that’s only 50%-60% of what you normally eat so your body enters the "starvation mode" - when your fat storage is protected against rapid weight loss at all costs. As a result, the weight you lose from such a low calorie diet is muscle mass and water, NOT fat.
So if you try to lose more weight by cutting more than 1/5 of what you’re currently eating, you’ll end up gaining all the weight back and more, as soon as you return to your normal eating.
That’s because your body can't tell the difference between low calorie dieting and starvation.
Cutting anything more than 20-25% of your daily intake (the equivalent of approx. 500 calories/day) is not among the best ideas, as it triggers your body's "starvation response".
During this self-preserving physiology, your body produces lipoprotein lipase, an enzyme that forces your metabolism to slow down and hold onto its fat storages. As a result, you start to experience loss of muscle mass, high levels of fat-storing hormones, a bigger appetite, irritability, lethargy, even depression.
With a massive willpower you might get a temporary weight loss on a low-calorie diet, but eventually you’ll get increasingly fatter on less food. That’s why these low calorie, rapid weight loss ideas don’t work.
However, there are a few...
Quick Weight Loss Tips that Do Work
As opposed to low calorie dieting, there are a few healthy weight loss tips that help you lose weight quicker:
Eat foods high in fiber, like whole grains & vegetables
Use specific exercises to lose weight quickly
So don’t waste your time and health with rapid weight loss ideas that don’t work. You may want to try some of the healthy weight loss tips listed above and see the results.
