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7 Myths About Weight Loss You Should Ignore

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7 Myths About Weight Loss You Should Ignore

Faith Wambui by Faith Wambui
22 August 2021
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Most people work so hard to improve their health standards by adopting new nutritional values in their meals. Weight loss is the most significant element of consideration when it comes to maintaining excellent body weight. Well, it is obviously worrying to most people when they begin to develop a unique trend of increasing weight. However, the following are some of the myths about weight loss you should ignore in pursuit of healthy living.

1. Weight loss is an indiscreet process

Completely unproven! The process of losing weight does not necessarily take a linear pattern. Most people tend to imagine that there is a definite start and end to losing weight, but the truth is, one may lose weight in a certain period of time and then gain significantly at some point regardless of the efforts to maintain a continuous trend. However, this phenomenon should not be a cause for worry as fluctuation is normal. As long as the general trend goes downwards, fluctuations are not an obstacle to weight loss.

2. Intake of Supplements helps lose weight

There has been this increasing trend in the food industry whereby food processing and packaging companies come up with peculiar supplements commercially tagged to help in losing weight. From the marketing point of view, these companies seek to promote their products with claims of the effectiveness and authenticity of these supplements. However, it is essential to note that supplements may work well with other people and fail in others. Therefore, there is an insignificant intervention to weight loss linked to supplement intake.

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3. Eating less and exercising regularly helps in weight loss

You shouldn’t forget that fats contained in the body of a person incorporate stored energy and reusable nutrients. The only way to lose fat is to ensure a significant reduction in calorie intake. Eating less is certainly not the solution to weight loss.

Regular exercising may actually result in gaining weight depending on the body’s response to varying nutrition. Varying physiological and biochemical factors dictate the rate of losing or gaining weight. A reduction in food intake defeats the purpose of nutrition thus making a uniform diet important in this sense.

Weighing scale illustration. Image from https://www.everydayhealth.com/diet-nutrition/best-worst-diet-plans-for-weight-loss/

4. Carbohydrates are the root of high body weight

Most times, a low intake of carbohydrates in nutrition results in significant weight loss. However, that does not mean that carbohydrates are the cause of heavy weight. The history of carbohydrate consumption dates back even before the onset of obesity as an epidemic in most parts of the world.

Carbohydrates in whole foods are healthy and recommended save for commercially refined grains, carbon, and sugars. Just mind your nutrition! 6 Easy Ways To Reduce Carbs In Your Diet

5. Junk foods always result in weight gain

Most people have developed this belief that the intake of random junk foods such as salted snacks, candy, and desserts causes weight gain. That’s far from the truth! Foods such as hamburgers, pizza, and fried fast foods have a varying impact on the bodies of different people. The rate of intake would be vital to consider but it does not completely rule out the nutritional value of this category of foods. Five Reasons You Should Reduce Your Intake Of Fast Foods

6. Obesity is unhealthy

In as much as people living with obesity are at risk of developing chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart diseases, many obese individuals are still healthy from a metabolic point of view. One could be lean, yet still, develop chronic illnesses. What matters is the body’s response to fat buildup upon any significant change in nutrition.

7. Change of diet helps lose weight

Nutritionists argue that specific diets affect the variation of weight changes in the body of any human being. Well, that’s true and proven! Low-fat and gluten-free foods are examples of unique diets that may act differently in healthy bodies.

Most processed and packaged foods may be deceiving and less informative. Therefore, it is important and recommended that one maintains a uniform trend of diet to achieve optimum weight loss. Keto Diet: Myth Or Fact – What Is It All About?

Check out 6 Weight Loss Alternatives To Consider

Also, check out Lifestyle: 8 Reasons You Struggle To Lose Weight

How To Gain Weight In A Healthy Way

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