If you have been searching around for information that will help you to achieve effective weight loss, you may be confused right now. There is so much contradictory information. There is even false information. Most of this is due to the companies that comprise the billion dollar weight loss industry.
A review of the content published by companies in the weight loss industry, reveals that they talk primarily about fast weight loss and not effective weight loss. It is likely that they think that people want quick solutions.
This may be the case, but people also want weight loss that is effective. However, fast weight loss and effective weight loss are not compatible.
Definition Of Effective Weight Loss
Here is how I define it; you may define it in another way. When you achieve weight loss that is effective, you lose weight and you dont put it back on again. It brings about a permanent improvement in your physical appearance.
Weight loss professionals say that you should not lose more than 1-2 pounds per week. Scientific research reveals that if you lose more than that in a week on a diet, you are likely to put the weight back on when you come off the diet. Also, the US government also recommends that weight loss should be confined to 1-2 pounds per week.
Fast Weight Loss Diet Defined
If weight loss authorities say that you should not lose more than two pounds per week, then my definition of fast weight loss is when you lose more than that in a week. Most of the diets that you see advertised, promote weight loss of 5-10 pounds in a week. What’s more, they can deliver that result.
What Triggers People To Go On A Diet?
The spark plug very often comes from what they see, when they look at themselves in a mirror. They see unwanted fat in the mirror every day. Then one day they become fed up with it and they decide to go on a diet.
However, if you try to lose this fat, just by dieting, you will fail. Fat loss only occurs from exercise. You can increase the rate of fat loss from exercise, by following a good diet. But the fat that you see in the mirror will remain, if all that you do is diet.
Earlier I said that you can lose 5-10 pounds per week on many diets. This is true and your scales will provide the proof to you. However, you will not have lost the fat that you see in the mirror. The weight loss comes from a loss of water from your body. The water loss will have come from your muscles, thus reducing your muscle mass.
As a matter of course, your body will restock its water level to what it had been previously. It does this automatically, because it needs that level to function properly. Your scales will testify that you have regained the weight, thus acknowledging the ineffectiveness of the fast weight loss diet.
Use Your Mirror To Measure Your Progress, Not Your Scales
Fat Loss also means weight loss, but the reverse is not necessarily true. As already discussed, you can lose weight and not lose fat. If it is the unwanted fat that you see in the mirror that has prompted you to lose weight, doesnt it make sense to measure your progress by how much less fat you see in the mirror?
Dont be hypnotized by what your scales say. Go for fat loss. It results in effective weight loss.
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