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20 Lies you Have Been Told About Weight Loss

There are myths about weight loss and then there are myths that have been hammered into our minds, and we follow them blindly. For decades, we have been made to believe that all forms are fats are bad and would lead to weight gain, whereas the truth is that healthy fats and omega-3 fatty acids are required in optimum amount to lose weight and for absorption of fat-soluble nutrients. When we seek desperate measures to lose weight, we often naively follow these myths that have no backing from science. In this post, we explore lies you have been told about weight loss and debunk all these myths.

Lies you Have Been Told About Weight Loss

1. Detox Drinks Will Melt Away Fat: The fat layers do not just flush away overnight. Detox drinks just reduce toxins, improve metabolism and energy levels. Fat burning happens through a process called as lipolysis and only a healthy diet and exercise over a period of weeks and months would result in weight loss, detox drinks cannot do that overnight.

2. You can Lose Weight Overnight: Okay, so you have starved the whole day and exercised for hours together, and that wouldn’t shuttle all the body fat out of the system overnight. As we have mentioned always, you did not gain weight overnight and wouldn’t lose it in a single day; it will happen over a period of months, so gotta show patience.

3. You can Eat Whatever you want and Slog it all Out in the Gym: Come to think of it, you can lose up to 80% of your weight in the kitchen and 20% by moving about and exercising, so you have to depend largely on your diet in order to shed kilos off your body. You can slog it out in the gym for the whole day but if you are not eating clean, the fat in the body wouldn’t move. .

4. Fat-free and Low-Fat Food is Great for Weight Loss: What do most people do when they want to lose weight and eat healthy – get rid of all fat from the diet and pick everything low fat and fat free! What we are unaware is that going “low fat and fat free” can actually make your health worse. For decades now, we have been made to believe that all “fats” are bad and can make you obese, raise cholesterol levels, lead to stroke and heart disease, and cause a lot of other disorders in the body, but in reality, “fat” has been made the villain through wrong research results. In fact, to lose weight and to lead a healthy life in general, you should consume the recommended intake of “good fat.” When fat content is ripped from food, it usually makes it bland and tasteless. To appeal to the tastebuds of consumers, companies add stuff like heaps of sugar, refined carbs, salt, emulsifiers, and thickeners which add high amount of calories to the body. Such a tendency defeats the whole purpose where one is actually going “low fat” to lose weight.
9. Crash Dieting is the Easiest Way to Melt Fat: There are more chances to gain weight with crash dieting because when you starve yourself, your body goes into a fat-conservation mode thinking it’s not going to get food. Food deprivation also slows down metabolism considerably, preventing major calorie burn.

10. All Sugar-Free Products are Good: All of these so called sugar-free food items contain artificial sweeteners like aspartame, sucralose, saccharin, etc instead of sugar. Of course we know that sugar is bad for our waistlines, skin and blood sugar levels but artificial sweeteners are worse. They have been found to have very harmful effects on our body such as headaches, stomach aches, panic attacks and long term effects like kidney problems and brain tumor.


12. All forms of Carbs are Bad: There are two types of carbs – refined carbs and complex carbs. Refined carbs are bad and complex carbs in fact help boost weight loss efforts. Here’s a list of Best Carbs to Eat for Weight Loss.

13. Weight Loss Pills Melt Away Fat: There’s little research to prove the effectiveness of weight loss pills and most of them are gimmicky. The only way to lose weight is by eating right and exercising regularly. And no, appetite suppressants also do not work.

15. All Calories are Equal: It’s wrong to think that the calories from eating a tub of ice cream would have the same effects as eating two avocados. Ice creams come loaded with empty calories and sugar which spike insulin level, raising blood sugar, and triggering fat storage. On the other hand, avocados are rich in healthy fats which actually help burn stored fat.
17. Bread Toast Jam and Processed Breakfast Cereals are Healthiest Breakfast Items: It’s easy to pour out cereal from a box that also claims to have fruits and fortified minerals, but these cereals also have added color (to add vibrant color to the fruits in them), preservatives, and lots of sugar. Our breakfast should ideally be rich in protein and fiber to keep us full and energetic through the day, which these packaged cereals absolutely lack. There’s a huge misconception that cereals with sugar loaded choco chips and dehydrated fruits are good for health! A bowl full of packaged cereal though may taste delicious, it usually has a good amount of sugar which will spike up your insulin level. Excess sugar level leads to inflammation which damages skin cells and sugar also binds to collagen and makes skin stiff and dry. Instead of eating breakfast from a box, switch to traditional Indian breakfasts like idli, dosa, poha, eggs, etc.


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