Weight Loss Gimmicks to Avoid

Many people are looking to lose weight and lose weight fast,
so they fall for many weight-loss gimmicks. 
The best way to lose weight is to change your lifestyle, healthier
eating and more exercise.  But a lot of
people don’t want to make the effort. 
They look for an easy way to lose weight and then try one or more
weight-loss gimmicks.  What are some of
these weight-loss gimmicks
that you should avoid? 

• Short, 7-Minute Workouts – you have seen
  these headlines:  Lose weight by
  exercising only 7 minutes a day.  Any
  exercise is good for you but exercising only 7 minutes a day won’t lead to
  weight loss.  If you keep repeating the
  7-minute workout and exercise for 21 minutes or more, then the exercise can
  burn up some calories.
  
• Detox and Teas that promote weight loss –
  I have heard many people say they are on a “detox diet” thinking this is a good
  thing.  But your liver
  “detoxes” every day and you don’t need to go on a “detox diet”.  Johns
  Hopkins Medicine states: “Your liver represents the human body’s filtration
  system, converting toxins into waste products, cleansing your blood, and
  metabolizing nutrients and medications…”  
  Many of the detox teas want you to skip meals and drink the tea instead.
  Yes, this would lead to weight loss but because you are eating less
  calories.  Some people promote Green
  Tea for weight loss.  Green Tea is
  certainly healthy, as it is full of good antioxidants.  But many studies have found weight loss from
  drinking Green Tea wasn’t significant. 
  Nothing wrong with drinking Green Tea – I really enjoy drinking it in
  colder weather.  And, if you exercise and
  switch to a healthier diet, drinking Green Tea can fill you up so you may eat
  less.

Say no to any detox diet. 

• Juice Cleanses – a person I know goes
  on a “juice cleanse” diet for a week every year.  During that week, he admits to having low
  energy and feeling weak and tired.  He
  truly thinks this week of sacrificing is good for his health.  MedicalNewsToday
  notes some downsides of juice cleanses. 
  “Consuming an insufficient number of calories can cause a person to
  experience symptoms relating to low blood sugar because the body does not have
  enough energy.  Examples of these
  symptoms include fainting, weakness, dehydration, headaches, and hunger.”  No wonder “Mr. Cleanse” felt weak and tired
  when on his juice cleanse for a week.  The
  juice cleanse consists of fruit and/or vegetable juices with usually no solid
  food.  Will you lose weight on a juice
  cleanse?  Probably.  But the weight loss is lots of water, some
  fat but also some muscle – lean muscle mass you really don’t want to lose.  Then, when you go back to eating your regular
  diet, you will probably see the weight you lost return because you really
  haven’t changed your lifestyle.  Brian
  Kiselstein, a certified fitness professional, states,
  “Juice cleanses do not promote a healthy lifestyle and won’t make you
  healthier, other than just losing a few pounds.”  And pounds you probably gain back pretty
  quickly.

Drink the juice but skip the juice cleanse diet.

• No-Carb Diet – So many diet myths and
  the myths about carbs and dieting are on top of the list.  Many people think “carbs are bad” and go on a
  low-carb or even a no-carb diet.   A
  common such diet is the Atkins Diet.  You
  actually need carbs in your diet as carbs are your body’s energy nutrient.  In fact, most of the calories you eat each
  day should come from carbs.  Will you
  lose weight on a low-carb or no-carb diet? 
  Probably.  But US News & World
  Report notes:  “In 2003, researchers
  who analyzed about 100 low-carb studies concluded in the Journal of the
  American Medical Association that weight loss on those diets was associated
  with cutting calories and not with cutting carbs.”  If you want to lose some weight, check out
  the pros and cons of Best
  Weight Loss Diets for 2020.    

Keep the carbs, the energy nutrient.

• Diets that eliminate one or more food
  groups – some people fall for diets that eliminate dairy, grains, fruit
  and/or vegetables.  The reason there are
  food groups is because each food group provides important vitamins and minerals
  and other nutrients your body needs. 
  Eliminate an entire food group and you eliminate or reduce your intake
  of important nutrients.  To be healthy
  you want all food groups in your diet. 
  You don’t want to eliminate grains but focus on eating more whole
  grains. Eliminate dairy and you will be eating less calcium and less vitamin D
  and missing out on a high quality protein source.  A healthy weight loss diet focuses on whole
  grains, fruits and vegetables, lean protein and low-fat dairy.  

Losing weight and keeping it off
means lifestyle changes, not quick fixes. 
No low-carb diet for me.  I love
carbs and enjoy my oatmeal for breakfast, my whole grain bread at lunch, and whole
grain crackers or popcorn for snacks.  As
for dairy – I have real dairy at every meal. 
Real cow’s milk at breakfast, yogurt and usually cheese at lunch and
milk at dinner.  I include all the food
groups and don’t eliminate any.  Skip the
gimmicks and focus on eating healthier and moving more.

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