Easy Ways To Lose Weight Fast - Are They Really Effective?
Most people nowadays are looking for easy ways to lose weight fast. We long to have lean, toned and attractive physique and yet we are not willing to work for it.
This overwhelming demand for miracle cures is exactly what’s fueling the scams that many diet and weight loss companies are perpetuating.
Observe their marketing ploys:
“Simply peel and stick to burn fat and lose weight!” (ad selling diet patches)
“Lose weight in just 4 minutes a day!” (ad selling a “revolutionary” - and way overpriced - exercise machine)
“Forget about long, difficult exercises! We have a range of treatments and surgeries to make you lose weight…”
“Take this pill, go to bed… wake up skinny! It’s magic!”
What did you notice about them?
The sad thing is that most more us - in our desperation and helplessness - have fallen for these tricks.
Marketers and salespeople may regard it as just business, but surely you deserve to be told what you’re buying can really do and cannot do.
Don’t fall for these tricks again. Here are just 3 things (there are many others!) that shrewd marketers don’t tell you amidst all the sales hype.
1. “Losing weight” is not necessarily a good thing.
One of the things marketers are hiding from you is that many of these miraculous wonder cures, wraps, potions and magic pills work solely by eliminating fluids from your body.
Here’s the rub- our body is 75% water!! Lose some water and you’ll lose weight, but you’ll still have the same amount of fat!
But you gotta hand it to them - dehydration IS an easy way to lose weight fast! Clever, indeed.
If you really want to lose weight and don’t care how, you might as well have your arms and legs cut off - that’s permanent weight loss, alright!
2. When You Starve Yourself, You Lose Muscle Mass and Keep the fat!
Another “easy ways to lose weight fast” solutions are pills and potions designed to make you lose appetite. An extremely low-calorie diet can work in the short term, but over a prolonged period of time, our body’s starvation response mechanism kicks in, ultimately causing our bodies to hoard fat.
The problem is that our body responds to starvation by hoarding fat, cannibalizing on our muscles and shutting down our metabolism - 3 of the worst possible things that can happen if your goal is to lose fat and acquire a toned look as efficiently as possible.
Is that what you really want?
3. Many quick fix solutions don’t work for the long-term.
Of course, when you DO lose weight through bogus means and by using ineffective products, in order to keep losing weight you’re made to think you have to keep consuming their products. And that’s exactly what marketers and vendors are training you to do: to keep buying their stuff!
Doesn’t sound too good now, does it?
Conclusion
Don’t aim to ‘lose weight’ - lose fat instead, and lose it using safe and permanent means.
When it comes to fat loss, there are only 3 things that work effectively, inexpensively and healthily: proper nutrition, regular exercise, and a positive attitude or mindset.
The results using these proven and tested methods may come slower, but the fat loss will be steady and permanent.
Don’t be fooled and believe that there are magic potions/creams/pills out there that can magically transform your body without much effort on your part. If there are such magical solutions, we would all be consuming them!
Recommendation
Still the best way to see what fat loss program really works is to learn from those who have already walked the path, and see how the same methods they’ve used can benefit your own body.
The most comprehensive fat loss program I’ve found is Tom Venuto’s Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle program.
Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle is touted as the “Fat Loss Bible” because no other book covers the confusing subject of fat loss as comprehensively.