2 Weight Loss Myths You Will Want to Know

Myth #1 You Have to Deprive Yourself to Lose Weight

Losing weight is not an easy task. Many people will tell you that if you want to lose weight, you have to restrict yourself. You have to eat low calories, or low carb, or cut something out of your diet.

They promise you it's the truth! They say it's the only way.

So, why are we told so many different ways to lose weight and how do they get away with it?

Here's the truth:

These diets do work! Yes, that's the truth. But a secret neither guru nor doctor will tell you is that the diet is meant to only help you lose weight initially. These diets are not designed to keep the weight off! You could call them "quick fix" diets. The initial weight loss makes you think that this diet is a miracle!

But what you don't know is most people can't keep weight off because their body gets used to whatever pattern they are on. So if they are eating all very low calories, their body anticipates that. Same for all other diets that require you to cut out a whole food group completely. And when a dieter gets off their diet.... after they reach their goal... their bodies get surprised at all the "excess" food, and forces them to gain weight.

What is the solution?

Make sure you eat as many different foods as possible! This is called calorie cycling or shifting.

It's actually a win/win way of eating, because...

a) Constantly switching up your food intake means that you continually lose weight, and...

b) Constantly switching your food intake ALSO means that you get built in "cheat" days.

See... what most merchants won't tell you is there is nothing wrong with you for wanting to indulge. Humans are natural over-eaters. It's been that way from the days of cavemen... yet you're made to feel bad about it. Constantly.

This is the biggest reason why most people can't stay on diets. They'll try to "be good"... then their natural instinct to "cheat" will come in. They'll feel like a failure and give up, only to spiral into misery.

With calorie cycling, since there's no pattern, there's no way for people to gain the weight back. The important part is that they've kept it off, too. (Unless they go on consistent crazy binges or something.)

Myth #2 Starving Yourself Will Help You Lose Weight

In research, two types of people who were obsessed with their weight... bodybuilders and anorexic people were compared as having similar eating styles.

See... there's a "plateau point" that you hit whenever you eat low calorie (or nothing at all) for too long, then your body STOPS losing weight. So what some anorexic people do (and what bodybuilders do too - but in healthy amounts) is cycle their calories on a daily basis. This way they were constantly tricking their metabolism and continually losing weight.

It might sound devious, but it's actually 100% healthy if done the right way.

Am I suggesting you become anorexic? Absolutely not! To become an extremist with weight loss is a very unhealthy way to lose weight! The major effects that style of eating will have on your body are detrimental! The body needs food to remain healthy. What's the point of being skinny when you can't live long enough to experience it?

Yet, there is something to learn from this! Cycling calories is a good way to lose weight and keep the weight off!

If it's not obvious already, there is a reason this information is not out in the public. It makes no-one money!

Once you are knowledgeable on a subject there is no need to continually buy new fad machines or microwaveable diet dinners from anyone.

To be healthy and fit, all a person needs is knowledge.