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Overcoming Weight Gain Hype |
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Sol Ferdinand |
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Overcoming Weight Gain Hype
by Sol Ferdinand
Obesity is on the rise and a large section of the populace is overweight. Even kids are showing a trend of being overweight. Much of the problem comes down to the food we eat, but one must seperate the fact from the fiction to understand.
There is a lot of money to be made in helping people lose those extra pounds. Tons of companies are doing just this, but all the different approaches to cutting weight makes it difficult to know what is true and what is not. Not anymore.
Magic weight loss foods are often touted as part of diets. These magic solutions blur over the simple fact of weight gain and loss. If you eat more calories than you burn off during the day, you will gain weight. If not, then you lose weight.
The type of food you eat is important because of its caloric density. Certain foods like vegetables have low calorie counts. An entire head of lettuce has about 100 calories. A fast food specialty cheeseburger may have 700 to 1,000 calories.
A common myth is that if you eat late, the food you eat will turn into fat. Not true. The issue is the total calories you eat per day, not necessarily when. The French are much thinner than Americans and eat dinner at 10 at night.
Lose a billion pounds in the next 24 hours! Ah, we've all read the ads and hype. Can you lose a bunch of weight quickly. The truth is you can. The problem is almost all the weight is water, which you will gain when you end the diet.
Fats are horrific and must be avoided if you want to lose weight. This is another statement that seems to be written in stone, but is not really true. Fat from McDonalds is not good for you, but fat from nuts and seeds is.
Cut out one of the three daily meals and you will lose weight. More than a few diet gurus have mentioned this one. It is a strategy that almost always fails. Why? You tend to overeat during the remaining meals of the day.
You can satisfy your hunger by drinking a full glass of water before eating. This myth is false because you will not quench your hunger. It is effective, however, because you feel full sooner and stop eating.
Bicyclist in the Tour de France eat over 7,000 calories a day. Why? Because they are burning them off like mad riding 70 or 80 miles a day. You can lose weight following their lead. Eat sensibly and exercise every day. It always works.
Sol Ferdinand writes for WeightLossLodge.com, your online weight loss resource. You are welcome to reprint this article - but get your own unique content version here.
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