Wherever you look you get swamped with weight lose diets, be it on TV, magazines, the internet and every other way the media can get to us. Whichever website you go to on the internet has at least one ad with promises to make you lose lots of weight in no time, either through diet pills, exercise, surgery, fiber pills, shakes and the works or by only eating a few calories a day and who knows what else.

Personally I sometimes get really tired of being lied to so much. And when you really think about it, whose well being to you think the inventors and authors of all of these programs and wonder methods have in mind? Well of course their own, and that of their wallets to be precise. They don’t care if you actually make yourself sick with their product or program, as long as it gets quick and visible results (that may not last at all).

Do you know the kind of stuff you’re putting into your body to lose weight? I know of some herbal weight loss teas (sounds all natural and healthy right and is all natural too) that have the potential to give you heart problems (and I know people that had to be hospitalized for consuming such things). Some people even have gone as far as to actually having acquired a tape worm or it’s larvae to keep slim, and yes that’ll get you skinny, and very malnourished, not to mention: ewhh! Other products use chemicals (have you ever read the ingredient label on diet foods? Do you even know what some of that stuff is that’s in there? Sure it has few calories, but is it actually better for you than regulated amounts of the real thing?)

Rest assured that in none of these programs or products you’ll find a word that will explain that sudden weight loss of several pounds in a couple of days is mostly due to loss of water. Neither will you find any explanations about the reason behind the wow-effect of your reduced waistline in only a day! - a long overdue and healthy bowel movement. You even feel lighter, don’t you?

A pound of body fat consists of 3,500 calories. To lose weight, you either have to ingest fewer calories than your body consumes (500 less a day to lose a pound a week) or exercise to burn off the excess calories. An hour of swimming will burn about 600 calories and so will an hour on the elliptical machine. So when you do the math it becomes quite clear that you don’t just burn off 10,000 calories in a couple of days.

Truth is, when the product or method tells you you’re going to lose three pounds in the first two days, they are telling you a bed-time story (sounds as good as one too). Your scale might actually cooperate with them and also tell you, you lost weight, at least for the first week or so, but really what kinds of pounds were those you lost? I can assure you it wasn’t body fat. Fast loss of weight in very few days usually means you lost water and bowel contents.

So, now that we know what doesn’t really work, what actually does? If you were looking for a miracle pill, that’ll do the job for you, I’m sorry; I’ll have to disappoint you. True and lasting weight loss, that you will be able to maintain for the rest of your life, will have to come with a change in lifestyle. You can of course use a good system of food combination and such to give yourself a push into the right direction, but in the long run you will have to make a definite decision on what and how much of it is going to go into your body.

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