Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Reasons Why You Are Not Losing Weight

By Ricardo d Argence

The diet industry shows that millions of people tried to lose weight everyday but have failed. You know they are failing by the sheer number of new products that comes on to the market every day. Here we will look at a few reasons why diets fail.

It seems that the most popular diets are geared toward eliminating entire food groups. No, fat diets, diets with no carbs and some diets with no food at all! It is little wonder that people cannot lose weight.

The human body needs nourishment from several sources in order to perform at it's peak. Eliminating a food group is not a healthy way to lose weight, chances are good that your body will actually rebel leaving you with no weight loss at all.

Losing little weight and getting hardly any nutrients, starvation diets are worse. That is because your body will go into what is known as starvation mode. If your body detects that you are no eating, then it automatically slows down your metabolism and increases it efforts to store body fat. This is to prevent you from dying under extreme circumstances. You potentially may be at risk for health problems even if you are able to surpass your body's initial objections.

To lose weight effectively you will need to maintain a healthy balanced diet. This means that you must partake of all the food groups. The better approach is to limit your portion size, this way you are getting nutrients while cutting caloric intake.

Fad diets claimed to be very effective by a lot of people in terms of losing weight with no need efforts to do exercise. The previous statement is obviously untrue, you must expend more than you consume. Exercise is required in order to do this and still consume proper amounts of nutrients. Exercise is considered to be anything that increases heart rate and oxygen intake. Our bodies were not made to be sedentary they need movement.

The greatest weight loss aid is as close as your kitchen sink. Your body is composed of mostly water, about 61.8%. Needless to say, water has a large impact on correct bodily function. The recommended daily allowance of water is eight 8-ounce glasses, but that is only the maintenance amount, if you do any type of strenuous activity or perspire a lot you will need to take in more fluids.

All of the aforementioned components should be contained within any healthy weight loss program. The most effective weight loss plans include proper diet, regular exercise and adequate consumption of water. - 15255

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