5 Weight Loss Myths Holding You Back

A diet low in calories can do more harm than good. The lost weight will inevitably return and it will be even more difficult to get rid of it. A study by the Medical School of Harvard shows that repeated dieting makes weight loss more difficult. In this experiment, 80 obese patients were put on a diet. Each of them lost an average of 24 pounds during a period of 231 days, which means little more than 1 / 8 of a kilogram daily. Having regained all the lost weight, they were put back on exactly the same diet.

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I think the biggest unrealistic weight loss myth is that you'll lose it fast. I wanted my body back. I'm down to a size 8 after 16 months of dieting. And I'm still not quite done.

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Josie B, I agree with you, I am working off 20lbs to get in the Air Force at the moment... It's tough but it's a goal and I'm working on it!

No, No, No, muscle does not weigh more than fat. They weigh the same. Muscle is just more dense than fat so it takes less physical space. A 250lb fat person weighs the same as a 250lb muscular person but they look wildly different.

Seems like more rationale from a liberal society getting lazier & fatter.
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Everyone who wants to find you disirable would want your body to look like a teenager's. You face could not, but your body definitely could be young again. That's no myth!

Moments on the lips, lifetime on the hips!
Eating wisely is the key that trumps all others. You don't have to starve. You just have to forgo the fat and white sugar. After a while, your mind would treat them like poison. The same with deep fried anything. Remember all flakey and crispy are the result of shortening, aka PIG FAT! Veggie shortening=transfat. Poison, poison, poison!!! Not a myth!
Sugar substitute would not help since it still reminds your brain to want to taste sweet.

Learn to satisfy your hunger with lean white meat, seafood and veggie. All those can be prepared into many delicious dishes. Teriyaki, KungPow, Marinara, Curry, all these sauces have very little fat.
Use raw sugar in your Teriyaki or other recipes that ask for white sugar. Honey won't do, it would change the taste of the sauce.

But don't pair your delicious sauces with rice or pasta, those are pre-fat to your body. Multi-grain bread or Chinese noodle will work fine with your delicious sauces. That's no myth!

Sounds like a lot of additional excuses for fatties to stay fat.
#1 - why shouldn't people try to regain a level of activity closer to when they were young and healthy? Stupid to tell them not to.

#4 - OK, so being thin is not a sure sign of health, but you failed completely to set a max when you stated that all you need to do is lose 5%. There are A LOT of people out there between 3-400 pounds out there and many much higher than that. How about them? 5% would be like throwing a few deck chairs off teh Queen Mary; not a lot and still really obese. Be more specific.

Finally, don't ever give people a way out or an excuse. America is disgusting these days and if we don't start losing weight and getting healthy, we will fail as a nation. Yes, obesity will kill our country. We look disgusting and we should be embarrassed and ashamed.

Ever since I was a kid I have been considered overweight. I got down to a size 3 in Junior High, then I became a teenage mother. I gained up to around 160 #'s while in High School. Over the years my weight has been up and down. I have been as high as 212# and as low as 128# in the last 15 years. When I am at my high weight it is because I am not eating and exercising like I should be. I honestly believe that most of our health issues can be helped by understanding your family history, body type, and your current medical problems. I have been extremely lucky with my health. I have all kinds of things in my family history, but I only have arthritis and knee problems, so I always try to maintain my weight around 175#, currently I am at 179#. I have learned to do moderate exercise and eat a little more healthy over the years. Learn about yourself and ask God to help guide you through all your life experiences.

I agree with Melissa's post. Everyone has a weight that their body likes. It is not always the weight we like or wish for but somewhere in the middle is a good goal.

HI THIS IS ASIF FROM PAKISTAN . THANKS FOR SO KIND INFORMATION. I AM 38 YEARS OLD MY HIGHT 5F11" AND I AM 110 KG PLEASE LET ME KNOW WHAT I NEED TO LOSS MY WEIGHT

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ASIF

Im 52 weight in Jan 2009 was 198 went on Jillian Michaels diet and exersize plan at that time started off good went down to 185, been doing the mix up with calories add a few drop a few work out 3 days one week the 6 the next, I walk 2 miles then do polities, aerobics bla bla bla Im getting more mussell but the fat is not moving off my body,I drink water eat whole grains and good food I do have 1 cheat day once a month but not a big one, IM mad as hell why with all the sit ups and exersize my gut is growing and my close are tighter and the scale is gone up 2 pounds?? HELP PLEASE what is going on?

Connie - You should see a doctor. Also, start calorie tracking on a free site like SparkPeople. You might be eating more calories than you think.

I agree with jose. Its not some dream-crushing number. I think everybody can reach their dream weight! My dream weight was 135 at 5'6'', but I'm there, after losing 40 lbs, and am going for 10 more. I am already thinner than I was is high school. Body standards set in hollywood are attainable, they don't do anything crazy besides work out every day and eat the right foods. To me at least, that is not an unobtainable goal!

This article is crap......If you WANT to, you CAN get to your ideal weight. In HS (that was 15 years ago), I weighed 120 pounds. I gained nearly 80 pounds during my 1st pregnancy, lost some of that, had a 2nd child, gained another 60 pounds & ended up at 167 pounds, being 5'4. I did nothing about it for nearly 5 years & got sick of being fat.

I decided to get back into my childhood sport & lost all that weight & now I am at 116 pounds & have very defined muscles....especially upper body. Being a woman in my early 30's.......I can still do 10 pulls ups regular grip & turn right into reverse grip & do 10 more, for a total of 20 (however, that has a lot to do with being a competitive gymnast for nearly 15 years). I worked hard & watch my calorie intake. I don't care what anyone says......Calories is a huge factor. If you are consuming 3,000 calories a day & only burn 900 of those.......You will NOT lost weight.......period!! I watch what I put into my body. You should see the looks I get at the grocery store, when I flip things over & look at the guide......It's funny.......& then I look at the person looking at me & I look in their cart & sure enough......They would not be considered a healthy person. Let's not judge others........I have been on both sides of the fence & I know what each is thinking.......It's a personal choice......not matter where you stand.

eat less / workout more. that is the recipe. these articles are so dumb.

werent the first 3 the same so called "myth"

Many People make losing weight a science, keep it simple.
If we make good choices of which foods we eat we don't have to stave to lose weight. Of course you can't binge eat too much good food & expect to lose weight either.
But there should be off limit foods & Drinks!
Many forget, you can get as many clories by what you drink as well as eat!
Tip #1- don't drink alcohol (beer,wine,etc.)
the body turns alcohol to sugar.
Tip #2- eat very small amounts of hight calorie foods & fill up (eat large amounts) of low calorie foods! So you don't feel staved.
Tip #3- If you drink water that's zero calories***
you can eat that much more real food so you don't have to stave! Think about it, your average 12 oz drink,
soda,juice,etc. is more then 120 calories per glass.
If you drink 6 glasses all day of any combination of 120 calories per glass kind of liquid that's (6x120=720 calories) 1/3 of your average females' 2,220 calories diet. Or 1/4 of the average mans' 2,800 calorie diet.
So I say don't make it a science,but eat smart.
Drink water, eat all you want of low cal foods & stay away from or limit the amount of high calorie foods.
And stay away from alcoholic drinks of any kind.
Not only does it lessen your will power to stay away from those high cal foods we all love, but as I said, alcohol turns to sugar in your body~
Hey Guys' no one likes beer more then me! You got to choose~ Do you really want to lose weight or not?
Well then, drink water & stay away from the soda & beer!

It always makes me sad when I meet women who constantly diet.

I often get asked how I keep in shape, or get back into shape when I've gone through a lazy episode and the question always baffles me.

I was fortunate in school to have physical education classes, sports teams, and other extracirricular physical activities. As a result, I was exposed to many different types of sports until I found ones that I really enjoyed doing. I continue doing them to this day (I mainly enjoy running, swimming, cycling - also weight lifting, karate). Sometimes I get lazy or really busy with something and don't do them as often - then I gain a little weight. Then I get sad because I'm not doing the activities I like to do anymore, so I start doing them again - then I automatically start eating better because, of course, it is more enjoyable to do these activities when I eat well - and, bam, I am back down to a good weight.

The number of pounds had never really been the issue, even though I know I perform my best when I am in my late-130s to early-140s (I am 5' 3" with pretty wide hips - I tend to be in the higher range now because I do more upper body weight training to strengthen my swimming). The issue has been my level of performance. I know I'm on solid ground when I can run 3 miles with an average of less than 8 minutes per mile.

It is a real shame that people don't seem to put their kids into athletics as much as they used to. And that so many schools have eliminated P.E. or made it a "1 day per week" thing rather than a daily thing. It doesn't cost anything to take the students out to run for 20 minutes for christ's sake. And it introduces them to FUN ways to stay in shape that they can use for the rest of their lives!

Rather than calorie-counting or obsessing over the BMI, why don't you find something active to do? That crap on television is not THAT interesting. Trust me. It's much more fun to go cycling for an hour and chat it up with other people who are cycling the same route. And it is much better for you mentally, physically, and socially.

And "genetics" certainly weren't on my side since most of my family is overweight. I find the genetics argument to be bogus. My family members are fat because they eat fattening foods and don't get any physical activity into their days. If you eat well and get physical activity regularly, you will naturally come down to a healthy weight. I do agree with the article insofar as you shouldn't play these bizarre games with yourself of getting down to "this number" come starvation or collapse. However, this shouldn't be used as an excuse to do nothing and get fat.

Work on building your lifestyle into a physically active and healthy one, and your weight will naturally come down to where it needs to be in order to sustain that lifestyle.

And I feel like a pretty damn good "armchair expert" because I get asked SO FREAKIN' OFTEN how I do it. And it really is that simple.

Best way to offset middle age obesity and diabetes, etc, for boys anyway...is weight training when you're 18 to 25. The more skeletal muscle you develop (which is optimally accomplished at that age range) the less you'll gain in body fat later on. Don't believe it? Sit around a bar sometime and look at the 50 year old guys who guzzle beer everyday. The muscular ones are rarely fat...the underdeveloped ones (most of todays men - due to almost no manual labor) get fat and sloppy and are classic examples of type II diabetics. Women are probably unable to substantially develop skeletal muscle to a significant degree..this method works for most all men though. Moral of the story: use that college education to take weightlifting and get involved in it during those years. When you're 40 it's generally too late.

For number 2: "Big boned" this author can not be serious. Big boned is a myth (Very few people have big bones they are just fat), muscle can make you weigh more than what is suggested in the weight chart. A guy can be 5'9 and 200lbs of pure muscle. The charts suggest a lower weight but this individual is still healthy. Thats why people should focus on body fat to determine a healthy range, the scale can be deceiving due to muscle and bloating.